New Year 2017 is around the corner! New Year not only brings fun, laughter and gifts but also a lot of love and hope and many resolutions. Ever felt like giving back the love and hope that you receive during Christmas and New Year?

1. Mid-day Meal Makes
This New Year a
Happy One for a
Child!

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New Year 2017 is around the corner! Let’s begin the celebrations by thanking 2016 for all that
we achieved, for the new learning and many experiences! New Year is not just a festival but it’s
a whole year of hope for new things. Just after the celebration of birth of Jesus Christ who
brought so much hope who came at a time when humanity needed a saviour, a whole new year
begins. Interestingly, Christmas and New Year brings a lot of cheer for those in need as well.
This New Year, you can make a difference in the lives of the children who need it the most.
Akshaya Patra is an NGO for Children that feed mid-day meals and also encouraging the
children to come to school. The organisation functions solely on donation and hence urges you
to donate in honour of someone so that literacy increases and undernourishment gets rooted
out at a faster rate of time. Akshaya Patra wishes to make New Year for children a great way to
celebrate life, nourishment and education.
Needless to say, New Year is the best time to donate some of what you receive during the
holiday season.
Your donation feeds the hungry
By feeding children, mid-day meal benefits their family and their overall health. Your donation
will not only help Akshaya Patra in accomplishing its mission of serving 5 million children by
2020 but also promote its several other initiatives such as providing disaster relief, running

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feeding programmes in old-age homes, organising health check-up camps whenever and
wherever required, implementing scholarship programmes etc. The NGO engages in providing
Food for Education in an extremely methodical way. You see, there are so many ways for you to
give back to society and help in the growth of these initiatives that aim at creating a better
future for all of us.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is registered under section 35AC of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Therefore every donation above Rs 500 made to this NGO is eligible to a 100% tax exemption
under section 80GGA. So, by raising charity for underprivileged children, you let your pile of
good deeds grow by securing a better future for kids. Thus, it’s like investing in something that
pays you through tax deductible donations.
Gift children a chance
Children start to dream about what they want to become upon growing up. Now, what
happens when they cannot even make it to school because of the economic status of their
families? They don’t get a fair chance that they deserve, to learn and prove their talents. And
then, this cycle continues for generations because financial stability cannot find a way without
the base of good education. Somewhere, this cycle needs to be broken because plucking a bud
before it blooms can never reveal the beauty that the flower beholds. And we, being

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competent can only help them by raising charity for them and giving them a chance to pursue
their dreams.
What is the ultimate purpose of welcome a New Year? To give back and try to live out the hope
that it offers. This New Year, help the helpless and remember there’s no greater happiness than
giving someone a reason to smile.
Donate a Happy New Year to a child!
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