Education initiatives in the 2010s
#LetsMakeOurKidsSmile
This education campaign addressed barriers to learning in India, including school conditions, nutrition, sanitation, menstrual health, supplies, and technology access.
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Food security
Help families and students meet a basic need with dignity.
Food and nutrition are part of the Foundation's education, community-support, pandemic-response, and humanitarian work, connecting school participation, family stability, health, and emergency relief.
Explore how reliable access to food supports learning, health, stability, and recovery during periods of crisis.
Explore the mission
Programs, campaigns, and ways to take part.
Learn how this area of the Foundation's mission has developed, explore the initiatives connected to it, and find a practical next step.
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Nutrition as part of school access
Campaign history
#LetsMakeOurKidsSmile treated hunger as an education barrier. Students need reliable nutrition to attend, concentrate, learn, and grow.
The campaign connected food support with sanitation, supplies, school conditions, health, and dignity.
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Food and essentials during emergencies
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Pandemics, displacement, and disasters can interrupt household income, transportation, healthcare, and access to basic goods.
The Foundation's emergency-response work has included support for families, hospitals, displaced communities, and humanitarian partners during periods of disruption.
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A dignity-centered approach
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Food support should respect choice, cultural and dietary needs, privacy, accessibility, and the realities families face.
Strong partnerships with local organizations can help resources reach communities through trusted, practical channels.
- Center dignity and accessibility.
- Coordinate with experienced local partners.
- Connect food access with health, education, and family stability.
- Build support around the needs communities identify.
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What supporters can do
Ways to participate
Individuals can offer food-service, logistics, outreach, or nutrition expertise. Organizations can propose local partnerships.
Donors can support food-security needs through a designated gift that helps the Foundation respond to confirmed nutrition, essentials, school-access, and community-support needs.
Foundation initiatives
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Each page brings together the initiative's purpose, timeline, media, people, and opportunities to stay involved.
2020 and later pandemic waves
COVID-19 Response
The Foundation responded to the pandemic through medical-supply, hospital-support, and humanitarian initiatives in India and beyond.
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Humanitarian response initiatives
Disaster Relief
Explore the Foundation’s humanitarian-response philosophy, disaster-relief initiatives, and opportunities to support communities in crisis.
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Media and coverage
Learn more through campaign media and independent coverage.
These videos and articles provide additional context on the Foundation's initiatives and the communities and issues they address.
Ways to participate
Turn interest into action.
Volunteer, partner, learn, advocate, or give through the path that best matches how you want to help.
Explore school access
See how nutrition, sanitation, supplies, and school conditions came together in #LetsMakeOurKidsSmile.
View the campaignVolunteer relevant skills
Share food-service, logistics, nutrition, or community-outreach experience.
Volunteer your skillsPropose a food-access partnership
Tell the Foundation about a community need, local program, or distribution partnership.
Start a conversationSupport food security
Help families and students access food and essentials with dignity.
Give to food security