Celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna Donates 2.5 Million Meals To 75 Cities In India While Staying In US

Proving 'where there is a will, there's a way', celebrity chef Vikas Khanna has been extending help to those in need during the time of crisis and feeding people by organising rations for old age homes and orphanages in India.

What's inspiring is that he has been doing all this while he is himself in New York.?

Sharing how the journey of helping people began, Vikas Khanna told Bombay Times, he was duped at his first attempt.?

"I came across a family in Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), who had no ration. I promised them that before Iftar, I will make food available to them. However, I failed miserably. Later, someone approached me with a picture on my phone saying that a particular old age home was in need of money. After I transferred money to the needy, I came to know that I got duped," he was quoted as saying by TOI.

This incident made him realise that he needs to help those in need, and so taking the responsibility on his shoulders, he catered to the NGOs and other people who approached him. He made some calls and connected with people in India to procure and send rations to remote villages.

"I am personally buying stuff and with the help of National Disaster Response Force the food is being distributed at various cities and remote areas," he said.

For the unversed, Vikas had previously donated 1000 PPE kits the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, built in the memory of Lata Mangeshkar's late father.??Mangeshkar had expressed her gratitude to Khanna on Twitter.

While the situation in the US is getting worse day by day, Vikas Khanna is aiming to keep himself positive. He says he has lost a lot of people.

“I’ve lost about 100 of my friends in New York to the pandemic, including my closest aunt and my first contact in the US."?

Its difficult to stay positive in such times but Vikas Khanna has been doing what he thinks he should do.