Jaipogal Garodia Girls' Higher Secondary School, Saidapet, Chennai, is a Govt high school struggling to make do with meager govt financing. Students are entitled to a free noon meal every day, but this was being cooked outdoors. As a result, students were dealing with missed meals in wet weather, and dirt in their food in dry.

OPEN spent $2420 to fund construction of a kitchen for this school in May 2003, after calling for tenders from several construction firms in Chennai. The building opening ceremony invitation, and photographs of the building, follow.