School Nutrition Programs

IFBN partners with Protiviti India under the i-On-Hunger Community service program and to provide 12000 meals to children at the NGO Mera Parivar.

The School Nutrition Program of IFBN has been acknowledged as a finalist for the Global Food Banking Innovation Award 2018 at the Global Food Banking Leadership Institute (FBLI) Program attended by over 100 food bankers from 33 countries.

IFBN with the support of KFC, YUM India is providing a million supplementary nutritious meals to 4271 children in Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. Boiled eggs / bananas / warm cooked meals are being served daily to the children. IFBN helps corporates to prioritize food security and nutrition and to use the resources earmarked for CSR initiatives to fund nutritious meals to children in schools.

Cargill India / Alvean Sugar Pvt. Ltd. and Food Security Foundation India, India Food Banking Network is collaborating to provide nutrition support to schools in Delhi NCR with the purpose of addressing hunger and malnutrition amongst children. A daily nutritious meal to children in schools for underprivileged children provides important daily nutrition and also helps improve school attendance and performance. 1000 children in three schools in Delhi NCR are being provided with a nutritious meal.

IFBN is serving 1 million meals to children in 11 schools in 4 cities in collaboration with the Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) and Rotary Clubs. RILM under its T.E.A.C.H program ensures overall development of out of school children and children in Happy Schools by focusing on teacher support, e-learning, literacy and child development. IFBN brings synergy to this program by taking care of food and nutrition of school children.

IFBN helps corporates to prioritize food security and nutrition and to use the resources earmarked for CSR initiatives to fund nutritious meals to children in schools.
Yum! India as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, has associated with IFBN to provide daily nutritious meals to 4500 underprivileged children under the campaign carried out by Yum’s brand KFC in the name ‘Add HOPE’.

India Food Banking Network collaborated with Times Foundation on a program to provide fresh, hygienic, healthy, nutritious mid-day meals to the children living in the slums of the urban areas of Gurgaon. Nutritious mid day meals provided to students at school are vital to keep children in school and ensure that they have access to education, health and nutrition.

KFC India announced the launch of add HOPE, a program that aims to fight hunger in the country with the launch, KFC hopes to create awareness and raise funds to provide meals to India's underprivileged children through World Food Program (WFP), Akshaya Patra Foundation and India FoodBanking Network (IFBN).

Together with these organizations, KFC aims to provide 20 million meals to underprivileged children by 2020.

IFBN partnered with Kellogg's India to provide healthy breakfast cereals and milk in single packs to 9,308 children daily in 4 cities - Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. This amounts to about 4.5 lakhs healthy breakfasts served to children. A daily in-school nutritious breakfast provided to the students provided vital nourishment, helped keep children in school and improved concentration and learning outcomes.

Feeding program at Samarpan Foundation School, Kishangarh. Marc Meyer from Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a partner of IFBN visited the program