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Board for Research Education And Development (BREAD) a Noida, India-based NGO WWW.BREADNOIDA.ORGis managed by the Delhi province of the Indian Missionary Society. Fr. Joson Tharakan John, the Managing Trustee, a lawyer by profession, got the idea of feeding and educating poor children while interacting to group of poor women, sharing their grieves of poverty interrupting the education of their children. This happened in the winter of 2001 while conducting a legal aid camp in a village near Gajraula, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was introduced to Mary’s Meal, the brainchild of the Scottish Catholic Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow to serve meals to children while on a visit to Glasgow, Scotland in the summer of 2002. The storm of thoughts, to do for the poor was calmed getting to know Mary’s Meals. He started its Indian branch in 2004 through his congregation’s social service wing. Finally, on 24th April, 2009 BREAD was registered as a public Trust under Public Charitable Trust Act, 1882. The motto of BREAD is “Empowerment through Education”. Directing all its resources with a mission, “To ensure freedom from hunger, serving one time daily meal in a classroom setting, hence, inviting the impoverished to be educated, sharing the burden of their expense to give a hope to continuous education, and motivating them to develop a vocation for their life, that will help them lead a self-reliant, sustained and empowered life”.

The organization works in various modalities to achieve its vision, and has five major programs. As the mission of the organization states, it provides one-time meal to the poorest of the poor, be it in the slums of National Capital Region or eastern part of the India, through MARY’S MEALS PROGRAM. By providing one hot meal day in the context of classroom to the poorest child, he / she is attracted and enriched physically and mentally. Mary’s Meals is a small, invisible tool, but powerful enough to bring in generational change. A rubbish- bin picking child many not sustain in a mary’s meals class room to complete his / her entire schooling ; BUT is convinced that “ I WILL EDUCATE MY CHILD’; come what may. This conviction is the soul of mary’s meals.

Today 42914 children in the remotest corners of Jharkhand, Bihar are fed with cooked lunch in their place of learning every day through Mary’s Meals feeding programme. Through its MOTHER’S CARE PROGRAM, it proffers education articles and facilitates uninterrupted education. 2390 students are not anxious how they will meet their educational expenses, since they are covered under the program. To encourage continuous education and self-reliance, the MOTHER’S LEAP PROGRAM comes to aid for those who aspire to study further after schooling and learn skills for the living, by partially supporting with the institution fees. Some 80 youths are on their way to turn their dreams into reality of becoming something. Understanding the importance of a good school environment for the holistic learning, BREAD supports various schools serving the economically weaker section, in building basic and good infrastructure through its SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. BREAD has been able to reach out to 8 schools, serving the marginalized and supporting them with good structure. Beyond this BREAD also organizes LIFE SKILLS sessions for the formal and non-formal education centres. Various value based themes are introduced to students, by doing-and-knowing activities, with the help of professionals in the field. Also, beyond the programs BREAD has very actively contributed in rehabilitation of victims of the major catastrophes that hit Tsunami in Tamil Nadu (2004), Kerala flood (2018) & Orissa Cyclone Fani (2019). With the experience and the support of long standing sponsors, BREAD has also come out on street to arrange for relief for the poor and marginalized, stuck due to the lockdown in the midst of COVID-19 Pandemic. In the months of April & May, 2020, BREAD reached out to 46000 families in and around Delhi & NCR, and 37000 families in Jharkhand. BREAD is serving the most deprived since, 11 years and foresees its service for many more years. All because of unfailing backing it experiences by some its long-standing partners and individuals, who are generous in their giving. The support BREAD receives from Mary’s Meals: Scotland, Mother’s Care India : Scotland, Deepak Project : Spain, & Belgium and Marelli : India stands second to none.

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With inputs from documentation desk of BREAD