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HBR Blog: Affordable School Lunches

Can you imagine living on a budget of $28 for lunch at work for a whole year?

The Akshaya Patra Foundation in India has found a way to feed a child daily for the entire school year on just $28. Add an average government subsidy of 50 percent, and $28 ends up feeding two children for the year. This is a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world.

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Posted by Vijay Govindarajan on July 12, 2010 08:48 PM |

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