Feeding the poor
To protect the low-income groups by providing certain minimum quantities of cooked meal or food grains.
Strategic Objective – Ensure sufficient quantity and quality meal for the needy and poor.
“Not only do the consequences of not enough – or the wrong – food cause suffering and poor health, they also slow progress in many other areas of development like education and employment.” Poor and inadequate nutrition also leaves children vulnerable to diseases and illness, and can cause stunted growth.
Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai
Tulsi Trust provides fresh, hot food to the poor sitting at this location, on Thursday and Saturday evenings feeding around 150-200 people including children. This activity is supported by Mr. Jagdish Chanrai and Mr. Subodh Chanrai.
The idea is to feed people fresh, hot food which gives a sated feeling of eating well. Children are seen joyfully gobbling the food and the happiness on the faces of the parents can be well imagined. It’s the regularity of the event that is fulfilling.
Tulsi Rural Development Trust (LAP feeding Chennai)
This was set up in order to work in rural parts of India. The Trust is involved with feeding the poor of Tamilnadu, providing scholarships for higher studies to the economically weaker sections of society, cultivation of vegetables and food grains in surrounding areas to keep the people involved. Also includes feeding leprosy-affected people at the Tirumani Leprosy Centre near Chennai (in 2011) and repairing of toilets, dormitories and bathrooms damaged due to the cyclone.
Sri Satya Sai Trust, Mumbai
Providing food to the slum population and old age institutes, this is for the aged and destitute from western suburbs of Mumbai. We have now finalised about continuing our support from April till June. We have supported 500 packets per day in April as suggested by Mr. Chanrai.
Tulsi Trust’s feeding projects get wider as they provide cooked food to approximately 25,000 people. Its share is about 30 per cent support. This includes nutritious food which is provided on a monthly basis. This works through their community kitchen.
Sringeri Muth, Chennai
At Chennai we are giving ration kits to 350 families for people with disabilities and the poor. We have now finalised about continuing our support from April till June. We will be supporting with Rs. 2,50,000 for the month of April as suggested by Mr. Chanrai.
Now Tulsi Trust is providing visually impaired families with food kits for four people in a family and this is given every month on a regular basis. A project called ‘Sakoham’ has recently come on the anvil. People come in from the neighbouring districts of Tamil Nadu to collect food kits. This is a procedure that takes place once a month.
Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Pune
Sadhu Vaswani Mission is currently providing 1000 meals a day in three areas at Pune. They are providing cooked meals to homeless, jobless and migrant workers in Pune city. We have now finalised about continuing our support from April till June. We have supported 300 packets per day with Rs. 1,80,000 per month in April as suggested by Mr. Chanrai.
This venture of providing cooked meals is done in Pune and some surrounding districts. This includes the following locations: Pimpri, Yerawada, Manjri Village and Pune city.
Sadhu Vaswani Mission delivers 1000 meals packets a day. Tulsi Trust shares in this venture by contributing 300 packets of the 1000.