01 / Grain
It starts with one grain.
A single seed of jowar. Sorghum, the millet that keeps growing when the land goes dry for months. On its own it is humble. It fills a stomach and little else.
02 / Reformulation
One grain, made whole.
Millet runs short on lysine and pulses run short on the sulfur amino acids, so the right pair lets each fill the other's gap. UGIPL rebuilt The Breakfast Revolution's mix around that, so the protein is complete: all nine essential amino acids, in every serving.
Complete protein means a growing body can use almost all of what it takes in, instead of passing most of it through.
Complete protein
03 / At home
What changed at home.
My daughter has gained weight and has become more lively. She loves the new food at school, and now my younger son wants it too.
A mother in the programme
Name changed in the source report
04 / The morning
Then it is just breakfast.
A packet torn open at a bench. A first bite before the lessons start. Each one is a morning for one particular child.
50,000
people served a day
40 million+
meals served so far
400+
schools and anganwadis
05 / Your part
It started with one grain. You can fund the next one.
One serving costs a few rupees. That is a morning of complete protein for a child who would otherwise get starch and not much else. You can fund exactly that.