While most of us talk about issues such as women empowerment, poverty, jobs, infrastructure, health care, corruption etc. and hope for a better tomorrow, a 23-year-old Chennai girl Sneha Mohandoss has already begun working towards a solution for one of India’s biggest problem. She’s started a drive known as The Food Bank.
Having a big picture in mind of seeing a nation in which no single person goes hungry, Sneha decided to start charity at her hometown, Chennai.
The concept of Food Bank is quite simple: While cooking food for their families, the members of this group also cook extra food for the poor. They then inform Sneha, through Facebook or Whatsapp, once the food is packed and ready for distribution. She sends her volunteers to collect the food packets and distributes them to the street dwellers in different areas.
What is special about this drive, is that Sneha and her volunteers do not just give out food packets from hotels, or any left from their homes, but provide the poor with fresh home cooked food. She feels that when one helps, one must help with the best of their ability. The weak and poor, deserve home cooked healthy food, not just any food.
The initiative started as a facebook group in June and now has over 4000 members. In the first week of July, the group saw the number of members increasing and orders poured in from different areas. Sneha then created Whatsapp groups for each area to make the process easier.She now has volunteers in Tnagar, Nungambakkam, Adyar, Perambur, Kilapuk, Ashoknagar, Saidapet, West Mabalam and Chetpet who go around collecting food from their respective areas.
Till date, more than 12000 packets have been distributed in Chennai.
Kudos to such a humanitarian effort by Sneha. People like her are keeping the spirit of humanity alive in this world.
If you wish, you can also join the cause .
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