Half Marathon raises 10 million meals for children, animals

The third edition of the Delhi Half Marathon concluded on Sunday with record participation from over 36,000 runners to support the cause of 'RunForZeroHunger'

Vedanta through its social impact arm, The Anil Agarwal Foundation (AAF), pledged to provide one meal for every kilometre run, resulting in raising 10 million meals, this year. The meals raised have doubled compared to the meals raisedlast year through Delhi Half Marathon, as per a press release from DHM.

In the previous two editions, the contribution of the runners led to the provision of 7 million meals to the children of Nand Ghar, AAF's flagship Women & Child Development project,which constitutes a network of modern, state-ofthe-art Anganwadis. Anil Agarwal Foundation has distributed almost 7.2 million multi-millet bars, so far, at Anganwadis including Nand Ghars, resulting in a significant reduction of 15 per cent in Severely Acute Malnourished cases and 12 per cent in Moderately Acute Malnourished cases, within a concentrated group of Nand Ghars.