For over 20 years, Ratna Nidhi has served 2.80 crore hot meals to children in Mumbai's schools. ₹20 fills one child's plate tomorrow. ₹5,000 fills it every school day for a year. 80G exemption.
Shruti's lunchbox is empty again today. 
She's eight. She's in Tardeo. And by the second period, she has stopped smiling.
Not because she isn't bright. Because she hasn't eaten since last night.
Down the road at Reay Road, Suresh — a born storyteller — sits in front of a blank page. Hunger has clouded his imagination before he's written a word.
₹20 fills a plate tomorrow morning.
₹5,000 fills it every school day for a whole year.
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Since 1967 |
FSSAI - Licensed |
80G |
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59 years of Service |
Our own kitchens. Nothing outsourced |
Tax exemptionon every Donation |
Published every year |
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Step Into Our Kitchen at Five in the Morning
Hear the bubbling of dal on the stove. The gentle sizzle of fresh rotis on the pan. Smell the poha, the rice and dal, the sweet sheera — cooked with the care of a mother's hand.
Nothing here is outsourced. Every roti on that plate was made by our own staff, this morning, in our own licensed kitchen. It travels a few kilometres and lands in front of a child before the lunch bell rings.
That is what your money buys. Not an idea. A hot plate of food, in a specific school, on a specific day.
A child who eats is a child who can sit still, listen, and learn. A child who eats stays in school instead of being sent out to work. A child who eats gets to keep her dreams.
What ₹20 a Day Has Added Up To
Over two decades, Ratna Nidhi has served 2.80 crore meals — 28 million plates of hot, freshly cooked food — to 3,700 children every single school day, across 35 schools in Mumbai. From Balak Vrinda Education Society to Lilavati Lalji Dayal High School.
These are not distribution figures. They are attendance registers.
Here's what changes when a child eats:
Choose How Far Your Kindness Travels
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Amount |
Meals |
What it Means |
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₹500 |
25 meals |
One child, one month |
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₹1,000 |
50 meals |
One child, two months |
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★ ₹5,000 |
250 meals |
One child, the entire school year |
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₹20,000 |
1,000 meals |
An entire classroom, for a full month |
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₹75,000 |
3,700 meals |
Every child we serve — for one whole day |
★ Most chosen
Whichever you choose, you'll receive a photograph from the school your meals reached. You won't have to wonder where it went. You'll see it.
Turn a Celebration Into a Meal
A birthday. An anniversary. A father's punyatithi. A promotion. A wedding, in place of return gifts.
Mark the day by filling a child's plate. We'll send a personalised certificate — on WhatsApp or printed and couriered — naming the person you're honouring, along with a photograph of the children who ate that day.
It is a quieter kind of celebration. It also lasts longer than any gift you could have bought.
Be the Reason a Plate Is Full
THE PEOPLE ALREADY DOING THIS
57,500 children fed in 32 schools through Ratna Nidhi last month.
An Honest Word
We cannot feed every hungry child in Mumbai. More schools ask us every month than we are able to take on.
So we won't tell you that your donation ends hunger. It doesn't.
What it does is decide whether one more child eats tomorrow. That is a smaller promise, and it is one we can keep — we've kept it 2.80 crore times.
No child should go to bed hungry. No dream should be put out by an empty stomach.
You don’t have to fix all of it. You just have to fill one plate — and then another, and then another. That is how 2.80 crore meals happened. One person at a time deciding that a child they will never meet deserves lunch.
PS: Tomorrow morning, in a classroom in Tardeo, a plate goes down in front of a child. Whether it’s full is decided today.
PPS: Forward this to one person.
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