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World Food Day: These city warriors ensure no one sleeps hungry; do your bit
Updated On: 16 October, 2022 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Nasrin Modak Siddiqi
On World Food Day today, you can pledge a meal by joining these hunger warriors who make sure that no one sleeps on an empty stomach
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A community kitchen in Kurla East provides food to around 500 people every day. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Khaana Chahiye Foundation
An impact organisation working towards Sustainable Development Goal-2: Zero Hunger in the Mumbai metropolitan region, Khaana Chahiye started as a citizen’s collective crowdfunding and volunteer-driven relief operations during the lockdown. Now, they support two community kitchens—one in Ulhasnagar run by a transgender collective, and the other in Kurla managed by a women’s self-help group. These kitchens feed daily wage workers, the specially-abled, destitute, unemployed, and people living with HIV. They also support Bal Jeevan, a daycare for underprivileged students; and Gharkul, a daycare for specially-abled children. Co-founder Swaraj Shetty says, “We also support SOS requests sent on our WhatsApp chatbot.”
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How you can help:
>> If you know any family in need of grocery support, send a text through WhatsApp chatbot bit.ly/kcreporthunger or message on 7669800470
>> Donate at our community kitchens through bit.ly/donateforkc
Akshaya Chaitanya
An initiative by Hare Krishna Movement, the idea is to eradicate hunger among the underprivileged in urban areas. “It’s a challenge to set up any initiative in Mumbai. The costs run through the roof and approvals are most arduous,” says the programme’s servant leader, Vikas Parchannda. Their well-designed set-up, modern equipment and highly skilled staff cooks for 25,000 hearty eaters. They have stringent quality, nutrition and hygiene standards. The organisation also runs Bal Shiksha Ahara, a breakfast programme that serves nearly 6,000 children in 53 municipal schools in Byculla; Swasthya Ahara, which sets the plate for over 2,500 caregivers and families of those lodged in six government hospitals; and Paushtik Ahara, a lunch programme for more than 500 migrant children in three slums—Jogeshwari, Goregaon and Poisar.
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How you can help:
>> Adopt an initiative for a specified period
>> Donate ingredients in bulk at akshayachaitanya.org
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