Food for life



Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON’s Founder-acarya, is the inspiration behind Food for Life. He stated in 1972 that “No one within ten miles of an ISKCON temple should go hungry.” Since that time ISKCON devotees have expanded a global network of free food restaurants, mobile services and relief programs establishing daily delivery routes in many large cities around the world.

Currently, Food for Life’s largest programs are in India. More than 1.2 million school children are a served multi-course hot, healthy, and tasty lunch six days a week in cities throughout the sub-continent, through a partnership with the Indian government for the ‘Mid-day Meal’ scheme. Education administrators have stated that the ISKCON Food for Life program, known locally as Annamrita, actually facilitates many poor children to attend school. Otherwise, they explain, without the program the children would be forced to work as child laborers to earn enough to eat for the day.

Food for Life volunteers also respond to natural disasters, bringing food and hope into the lives of people affected by events such as the wars in Bosnia and Chechnya, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the typhoon Haiyan, and Hurricane Katrina.

ISKCON Dhanbad is soon starting to serve everyday one time meal for 200 underprivileged children in schools of Dhanbad,


Cost of feeding one time meal to one poverty stricken child for entire year is only Rs 1100.00

Anyone interested to support or sponsor can kindly go through the following details.
Cost of feeding one child per year = 1100.00
Cost of feeding three child per year = 2200.00
Cost of feeding five child per year = 5500.00
Cost of feeding 10 child per year = 11,000.00
Cost of feeding 100 child per year = 1,10,000.00

All donations are tax exempted under section of 80G of I.T. Act
Please go to donate section to support and donate for the noble cause.

“(ISKCON) movement, Just imagine…within a short span of time…today I am told ISKCON movement runs more than 600 centres all over the world, everyday in India it provides food to over one million children…healthy food…and the message…of love, compassion, which is inherent in Indian civilization.”
– Pranab Mukherjee, President of India.