The famous fast-food chain McDonalds once used to have signs outside its restaurants boasting “One Billon Served”.
Indian non-profit organisation The Akshaya Patra Foundation claims to have served over 4bn meals, although unlike McDonalds, which charges people for meals of dubious nutritional value, it serves nourishing lunches to rural school children, and it does that for free.
BW LPG India, the nation’s largest owner and operator of VLGCs that deliver about 25% of its LPG supply, has been helping Akshaya Patra serve up these meals since late 2023, when it signed on as the energy partner for nine of the foundation’s centralized...
