Saviours In Time Of Crisis: How Some Delhiites Are Providing Free Meal Services To COVID-Affected Families

These are dark times - times when people infected with the novel coronavirus need desperate help. In order to help those people out, businessman and politicians have come forward to provide cooked food at their doorsteps, reported IANS.

A team of 27 volunteers from the Youth Welfare Association (Delhi), a non-profit organisation, has started providing home-cooked meals to COVID-affected patients across different localities of South Delhi.

In conversation with IANS, the President of YWA (Delhi), Raghav Pal Mandal said that it has come to light that there were many families where all the members had tested positive for COVID-19 and none of them was in a position to cook food.

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¡°We then decided to provide home-cooked food at the patients¡¯ doorsteps on a daily basis till they get cured of the infection,¡± Mandal said.

To solve this problem, the association has started a free Bhojan Sewa (food service) for COVID patients. Their motto is - ¡°Ghar ka khana, hamare ghar se apke ghar tak¡± (home-cooked food from my home to your home).

¡°We appeal to the COVID patients in real need to contact the Youth Welfare Association,¡± Mandal said.

He also said that the food is prepared at the homes of the volunteers and further delivered at the doorsteps of the COVID-hit families.

¡°Yesterday, we delivered food to 12 COVID patients which was prepared at my home. Similarly, food cooked at the homes of the secretary and treasurer of our organisation was delivered to 13 patients. We are not setting up any dedicated kitchen to provide food to the patients. We are just preparing extra food at our own homes,¡± Mandal said.

The association is providing food to COVID patients in Green Park, Safdarjung area, Lajpat Nagar, Greater Kailash, Defence Colony and adjoining areas. Mandal appealed to people to come forward and help those affected by COVID in their localities.

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Another non-profit organisation working for women¡¯s health and empowerment, AAS Foundation, is providing food to over 200 Covid patients for the last two weeks.

"We have started a helpline to receive requests from the families where everyone is infected and no one is there to cook for them. For the last 20 days, we are providing food to them. Everyday we are providing food to over 200 patients in and around the Shalimar Bagh area,¡± Rekha Gupta, the President of AAS Foundation, told IANS.

Trader and BJP leader from Fatehpuri in Old Delhi, Pravin Shankar Kapoor, and his friends ¡ª Amrnath Gupta, Ashwani Vats and Harivansh Sharma ¡ª have started the ¡®Shramik Rasoi¡¯ to provide food to the migrants workers of the locality during the weekend curfew.

¡°There are many migrant workers in and around Fatehpuri. We have set up a kitchen to ensure that they don¡¯t face any problem in getting food during the weekend curfew. Currently, it will operate for two days, and if required, we will run the kitchen for a longer duration,¡± Kapoor said.

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