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ISKCON Food Relief Foundation

NEWSLETTER

A) Holi CelebrationsB) Shout OutC) Workshop & EventsD) Khichdi KingsE) Donor ListF) Join Us

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Issue 25 • March 2015

For Private Circulation only,Not for Sale

Annamrita -

Food as Pure as Nectar

Holi Celebrations at school

Women's Day celebration

Holi is a spring festival, also known as the festival of colors or the festival of triumph of Good over Evil. Another legend attachedto the festival claims that in his youth, Krishna despaired whether fair skinned Radha and other Gopikas (girls) will like himbecause of his skin color. His mother, tired of the desperation, asks him to approach Radha and color her face in any color hewanted. Playful and mischievous Krishna appreciated the idea and implemented it. This game of applying colors thus gained somuch popularity that it became a tradition and later it turned out to be a full-fledged festival. Holi celebrations start with aHolika bonfire on the night before Holi followed the next day by a carnival of colors and water filled balloons.

ISKCON Food Relief Foundation also celebrated the festival. IFRF Aurangabad center along withIndian Association of Pediatrics (IAP) and Lions Club of Aurangabad celebrated Holi with 50,000school students. Students and teachers enjoyed the colors and sweets distributed on that day.Annamrita also took this opportunity to teach the kids about a safe and eco friendly Holi. Posterswere displayed at schools which gave tips on how to enjoy a safe Holi. In 3 of the schoolsrepresentatives from Lion's Club Aurangabad and doctors from IAP likeDr Dutta Kada - MD Pediatric and Senior Pediatrician of the city, DrMandar Deshpande - MD Pediatric, Dr R Kulkarni, Dr SantoshMadrewar spoke to children on the importance of proper handling ofcolors and correct hygiene practices to be followed.

International Women's Day (IWD), is celebrated the world over on March 8 every year. Over the years, this day has been acelebration of various achievements by women. Today it is basically a day where we appreciate the women in our lives.

Annamrita – ISKCON Food Relief Foundation is an equal opportunities organization. Our meals promote oneness and breakdown the barriers of gender, caste and creed. Annamrita also celebrated the important women who support this project withtheir hard work and dedication. A small program was held at Annamrita Aurangabad office. The program was chaired by MrsAnita Pagare (Head of Cleaning Staff) and Mrs Kristopher, HR Head from Greaves Cotton Ltd. who was also Chief Guest for theevent. A Group of around 40 female employees from GreavesCotton Ltd. visited the Aurangabad kitchen facility. MrsKristopher appreciated the work being done by the facility andespecially spoke about the importance women bring to theworkplace. A sumptuous meal followed along with a lot ofappreciation for the Annamrita staff.

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Shout OutIsha Koppikar visits Annamrita

Dr S Nagraj Rao from Pittsburgh visits Annamrita

Raje Ambrish Rao, State Tribal minister visits Annamrita

Mr Israni Founder of Blue Cross Laboratories visits Annamrita

Aurangabad kitchen visited by Education Director of Maharashtra with his team

Over the years, Annamrita's facilities have been graced by several stars.Celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Sonam Kapoor, Hema Malini, EmraanHashmi, Juhi Chawla, Soha Ali Khan, Vikas Khanna and many othershave marveled at the Annamrita kitchens. Recently we were visited byIsha Koppikar, an acclaimed Indian actress who has worked in Hindi,Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil films. She visited the Tardeo centerand discussed the project with Sri Radha Krishna Das, our AdministrativeAdvisor.

Isha Koppikar congratulated the Foundation on the way the kitchen operates and the excellent work being done. Wishing Annamritaall the best for the future, she conveyed her wishes to see the foundation growing even more in the years to come.

Dr S Nagraj Rao from Pittsburgh USA, a former professor having adoctorate specializing in energy efficient power generation visitedAnnamrita. He was associated with setting up of various thermal powerplants in Asia. He visited our Tardeo kitchen and also tasted our deliciouskhichdi. He was very impressed with the type of equipments we wereusing and gave several suggestions to help us conserve energy.

Annamrita was visited by Raje Ambrish Rao who is the State Minister of Tribal Development. Ambrishrao Raje Satyavanrao Atram is amember of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Aheri Assembly Constituency, in the Gadchiroli district ofMaharashtra. The scion of the Gond tribal royal family of Aheri in Naxalite-infested Gadchiroli won his maiden battle against hisuncle and former minister Dharmaraobaba Atram.

He visited the Annamrita center in Tardeo . He was very impressed with the scale of our work for the children in the municipality andslum schools.

“It was amazing to see the working of this center as until now, I had onlyheard about how good it was but when I saw it myself, it was kind ofunbelievable that we can provide meals to as many as 65,000 childrendaily from such a small place and I think we should take ISKCON's helpand their expertise for our tribal ashram schools in providing our childrennutritional food. It was a wonderful experience. Thank you.” - RajeAmbrish Rao

Blue Cross Laboratories is one of the leading research-basedpharmaceutical companies in India with over three decades ofexperience in providing healthcare products to people across the globewith the aim of improving human life. Its name today is synonymous withtop quality healthcare products.

Mr. N. H. Israni, Founder of Blue Cross Laboratories visited the Tardeocenter of Annamrita. Mr Israni is widely recognised as one of the pioneersof Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. Mr Israni and Mr Punwani visited the Annamrita kitchen and understood the cooking process ingreat details. They were very impressed with the level of hygiene and compliance followed in the kitchen. Blue Cross labs has in thepast as well helped out projects related to children and nutrition. After their visit they have assured us of support in our futureexpansion plans.

“Very happy to visit. Great example of teamwork and public service. Keep it up.” - Mr Israni, Founder Blue Cross Labs.

Education Director (Primary) Mr Mahavir Mane, Mr Mahesh Palkar(Deputy Director Mid Day Meal), Mr Sudhakar Banate (Deputy Directorfor Aurangabad region) and 15 Education Officers of various districtsvisited our Aurangabad kitchen. They not only appreciated our kitchenhygiene and infrastructure but also appreciated the inclusion andinnovative use of vegetables such as beans, shimla mirch, carrot, spinach

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etc in our meal. The ISO certified kitchen met all their approvals. The nutrition reports we shared with them of protein and caloriesincluded per meal, satisfied them of the prescribed nutrition standards being met. They expressed a desire for ISKCON Food ReliefFoundation to replicate this project in other districts as well.

“We have visited Annamrita which is run by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation under the centralized Mid Day Meal program. Thecooking process is very safe and hygienic. They provide children with nutritious and healthy meals. Best wishes and hope toimplement this project in other states as well” - Mr Mahesh Palkar, Deputy Director Mid Day Meal.

Rotary Clubs from district 3140 have so far sponsored 7654 children withMid-day meals for the Rotary year of 2014-2015

Workshops & EventsBhumi-puja of Annamrita Wada kitchenOn the occasion of Ram Navami, a bhumi - puja was conducted for “Annamrita's new

Hi-tech Kitchen” in Wada. The new improved kitchen will cater to nearly a lac tribal

children in the Wada belt. At present over 27,000 Zilla Parishad students from Tribal

areas of Wada are being fed every day through our old kitchen. The new facility we are

moving into is 10,000 sqft and should be up and running in few months. The Bhumi Puja

was attended by staff members and various benefactors for the kitchen.

Wonder Year's Charity Fun Fair

As all our readers are aware by now, “Khichdi Drive” is one of Annamrita's programs where we go and serve khichdi at events orcorporate cafeterias. This month we were invited by Wonder Years, Kindergarten School in Tardeo to participate in their Fun Fair byhosting a khichdi stall.

Wonder Years is designed on international standards and provides the most congenial environment for the development ofpreschooler's in the age group 1yr to 5 yrs. Their aim is to enhance confidence and creativity in children. In their annual Fun Fairevent they had a variety of game stalls like creative painting, diya making, cookie making, doll making, darts, trains etc to entertainthe kids and parents alike. Along with the golgappa, popcorn and dosa stalls Annamrita also had their khichdi stall. Needless to say

the parents and faculty were very welcomingand our khichdi boxes were sold off in no time.All proceeds from the event went towardsAnnamrita and we were able to sponsor mealsfor 10,000 children from our proceeds. Thank –you, Wonder Years for choosing Annamrita asthe Charity Partner for their event.

Khichdi KingsName: Mr Rajendra Pujari

Designation:

How long have you been with Annamrita?

What were you doing before you joined Annamrita?

What I like most about my work with Annamrita?

Regional Program Director for Maharashtra

I have completed 9 years with the Annamrita family.

I have been working for the last 27 years. For the better part of

my career (14 years), I have been a Senior Manager with TI-Tube

investment for India ltd, Pennar Industries. For over 10 years I

have been General Manager for Back To Godhead - a magazine

of the Hare Krishna Movement by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

The most interesting part of my work is that I get to help expand

the project to new locations and set up new centers. More than

a job being a part of ISKCON Food Relief

Foundation is more of rendering a

service to humanity.

We are not able to expand as fast as we

would like to. The delays by the

government, delays in getting funds all

slows down the process.

Food is the first basic necessity, if it is fulfilled a child can grow in

all dimensions which will benefit society at large. This is the

vision Annamrita is connected to along with a high degree of

nutritious, health conscious food to help the future generation

of our country develop.

What I dislike about my work?

Why Annamrita?

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Thank you to our generous Donors140 Janardhan Santhanam141 Janki Chokshi142 Jayant B. Gharpure143 Jayesh D. Bhagchandani144 Jethanand Santdas Bhathija145 Jimmy Dsouza146 Jitendra R Gaba147 Jitesh Aggrawal148 Joe Jacob Padathil149 JSW Steel Ltd150 K. R. Shetty151 K. R. Steel Tube Co.152 Kalpit J. Choksi153 Kamesh Rao Ch.154 Kamesh Remella155 Kamlesh Khanna156 Kanan Jayant Gharpure157 Kapil Goel158 Karan Suryawanshi159 Karthikeyan Panneer Selvan160 Karunya Trust161 Karwa Commercial Private Limited162 Khajrana Ganesh Properties Private

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ISKCON Food Relief Foundation is looking out for talented and committed

individuals to join us as interns or full time employees for various vacancies we

have at the moment.We also require individuals with strong Sales skills to

promote our cause and help us to raise funds. For more information about these

profiles or Internships please contact dilzad on dilzad@annamrita.org

Join Us

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Charitable Trust282 Rotary Club Of Mumbai Cuffe Parade283 Rotary Club Of Vile Parle Charitable Trust284 Rupa & Company Ltd285 Russell Pet286 S L Agarwal287 S V Aluext Profile Pvt Ltd288 S. Swaminathan289 Sadashiv Auhwad290 Sagaljit Kaur291 Sairam Nandiraju292 Sakshi RajkumarAgrawal293 Sambit Pradhan294 Samrat Dhar295 Sandeep Das296 SandeepMahanta297 Sangeeta Mittal298 Sangeetha Sharavanan299 Sangita Dere300 Sanjay Deshmukh301 Sanjay Manohar Sagwekar302 Sanjay Somani303 Sanjeev Shinde304 Sanjivani Shamsundar Sawant305 Sanket Narkhede306 Santanu Bagchi307 Santosh D. Mestry308 Santosh Gambhire309 Sarada Kankatala310 Satish Godse311 Satya NarainKedia312 SBI Funds Management Private Limited313 Seema Menon314 Shailesh Kankaria315 Shalini Jayaprakash316 Shamal Prakash Pradhan317 Shamsundar Manohar Sawant318 Shashi Anil Abyankar319 Shehnaz Nitin Tamhane320 Shivdawkar Sawant321 Shivram Kamat322 Shree Venkateshwar Somani Charitable

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