BOSTON– Akshaya Patra USA will hold its first virtual gala of 2021, Partnerships for Happiness, on Saturday, April 24th, 5:30 PM EDT / 2:30 PM PDT to raise funds for hunger relief to migrant families and the mid-day meal beneficiaries in India.
The event hosts are the Boston, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia chapters.
“The purest form of happiness is a child’s smile. It is what motivates us (at Akshaya Patra) to continue to provide nutritious, hot meals to our beneficiaries, so they are not deprived of an education and smile knowing they each have a bright future ahead,” said Vandana Tilak, CEO of Akshaya Patra. “It is thanks to our supporters, donors, corporate sponsors, and partners that we can come together and make this happen.”
Moderating the event will be the astute business leader, Milind Pant, CEO of Amway; he will have a fireside chat with the brilliant Sonu Sood, Bollywood actor and humanitarian.
Later, world-renowned Dr. Deepak Chopra, Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, will be speaking on the ‘Nature of Reality – Metahuman.’ There will be musical performances by the talented singer and songwriter Abby V and beautiful multi-faceted dancer Vinaini Jayasinghe throughout the event.
Over 1,000 professionals, non-profits, government officials, and philanthropic leaders will be in attendance to celebrate our beneficiaries, volunteers, and chapter teams. Mark your calendars and register now!
Partnerships for Happiness Event Sponsors
Jaishree & Desh Deshpande
Rajiv Jain
Jit & Sonia Saxena
Satya Tiwari
Satish Gupta
Bala Bahl
Susan & Nagendra Raina
Dr. Neeru Oberoi & Mr. Arun Oberoi
Atul & Ajita Bhat
Amrita & Milind Pant
Helen Hunt Bouscaren
Motwani Jadeja Foundation
Juhi Dhawan
Sanya & Hetal Shah
Ashoo & Rajeev Jain
Samantha Ganglani
Nidhi Singhal
Rama Neti
Bela Chandhok & Dr. Vinay Kumar
Ramika & Bhupen Shah
Jag Bhawan
Dr. Raman & Dr. Ritu Sood
Meena & Raj Rajgopal
Renu & Kedar Gupta
Ravi Ika
Rahul Vinod
Srilekha Tiruvuri
Bipin Patel
Pratima & Venkat Srinivasan
Venkat Kolluri
Meena Mehta
Vinita Rampuria
Sanjeev & Girija Verma
Dhananjaya & Kathleen Rao
Yaman & Samantha Sharma
Ravikanth & Malini Rayadurgam
Lalit Sudan & Suzanne Sudan
Sushil Tuli
Dr. Raja & Sirisha Cheruvu
Shoba & Naga Donti
Adish & Asha Jain
Rohit Mareddy
Ranganath & Sawali Sudarshan
Anand & Sumana Rao
Anu & Rama Chitrapu
Jyoti & Sandip Kapoor
Sudheer Kommanavancha
Vidya Murthy
Megha Joshi
Brian & Sunita Pereira
Apurv & Anupama Gupta
Suraj Kapur
Kulture Khazana
Ameeta & Anjan Mehta
Namrata Anand
Yash & Jigna Shah
Hetal Shah
Enterprise Bank
Ganesh & Uma Kaundinya
Sona & Sunand Menon
Shanna O’Reilly
Vikesh & Kiran Mahendroo
Santhosh Sankigatta Devakumar
Vamsi Vangala
John Boselli
Lakshmi Paladugu
Chandrakala Chinna
Niraj Bhagwat
Srikant Poruri
Sukanya Yeminedi
Sireesha Gorla
Snehal Desai
Hemang Pandya
Krishnan Chandrasekhar
Sany & Maria Chavan
Vishweshwar Patlolla
Longmeadow Rotary
Anjaneya Gunnamreddy
Jeetendra Naidu
Dr. Shanti Bedmutha
Bijoo George
Surya Kiran
Sanjay Jaiman
Prasad Gullapalli
Hari Ganapathy
Biswajit Sahoo
Chava Madhu
Vijeendra Archak
Vishal Mishra
Vinay Vittal
Mukti Parupudi
Avinash, Amita, Priya & Chetan Shukla
Rakesh, Deval & Poonam Kamdar
Chandu & Eshani Shah
Ravi & Rohini Sakhuja
Dr. Anand Kanjolia
Ramesh & Susan Kapur
Established in 2000, Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest NGO school meal program, providing hot, nutritious school lunches to over 1.8 million children in over 19,257 schools through 57 kitchens in 12 states and two Union Territories in India. It costs only $20 to feed a child for an entire school year. Since the COVID-19 lockdown began on March 24th, Akshaya Patra has served more than 118 million meals to migrant workers and beneficiaries and their families.
For more information, visit: https://foodforeducation.org/
