A Residential housing society in Mira Road — Akashdeep Co-op Housing Society — has turned out to be a saviour for many amidst the pandemic. Through an initiative of 26-year-old Mitesh Gupta, members of the society set up a community kitchen, which has been feeding more than 400 people on a daily basis. They distribute food packets among relatives of patients waiting at the nearby Indira Gandhi Municipal Hospital, security guards, auto and taxi drivers and even the destitute.

Gupta had initiated the process along with a friend by cooking for atleast 70 people each day at his home, but he wanted to do more. “I did not have big utensils to cook for more people. I then took permission from my society and more people joined me for the cause,” he said.