Apeejay School, Saket students feed underprivileged people

At an age when most children are still learning to tie their shoelaces, the youngest students at Apeejay School, Saket, have taken responsibility to feed underprivileged people. Every Tuesday, Class 1 students bring an extra meal from home to share with underprivileged individuals nearby. 

The initiative, run under the Interact Club’s Project Annapurna, asks something simple of its youngest participants that is to bring one extra tiffin from home each week. That is meant not for themselves, but for someone in need. What makes the project notable isn’t its scale, but its consistency and the age of those carrying it out.

The school has framed the initiative to make students a responsible member of society. Sharing, caring, and serving, delivered one meal at a time became a living lesson rather than an abstract value for students which Apeejay aims to instill .

None of this would be possible without the parents behind it. Each week, it’s families at home who prepare the extra meals their children carry to school, turning Project Annapurna into as much a parent-led effort as a student one. 

The school’s principal and primary incharge appreciated both the children and their parents for the initiative. That acknowledgment from school leadership signals that an initiative like this isn’t treated as a side project, but as something the institution genuinely values and wants to encourage further.