ISKCON distributes food, clothes to fire accident victims

Staff Reporter

The aid was given through Akshaya Patra Foundation to 450 slum dwellers of Doddabele whose houses were gutted

Bangalore: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Temple provided relief to over 450 slum dwellers of Doddabele, whose houses were gutted, by distributing food and clothes.

According to a press release here on Sunday, food cooked in the Akshaya Patra kitchen facility on the ISKCON premises was distributed to the victims. Most of the victims were old men, women and children.

Swami Madhu Pandit Das of ISKCON Temple, in the press release, said that the Akshaya Patra programme provides meals not only to schoolchildren but also to the people who are left to face the brunt of consequences of disasters such as this.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a charitable organisation that provides food to children belonging to economically backward sections of society in an attempt to foster literacy. It is, at present, serving food to over three lakh children in over 1,200 government schools in eight locations in the country. In Bangalore, the foundation offers midday meals to 1,20,000 children.

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