Unparalleled Share My Dabba initiative remains to be as an outstanding solution for feeding Mumbai's hungry street children which have been announced recently. The Share My Dabba video has already deposited more than 240,000 views since it went up on YouTube last Thursday. Share My Dabba happens to be a collaboration between the Happy Life Welfare Society and Dabbawala Foundation which offers street children food that is shared by office goers, students and school children.
It's just that one has to paste a sticker on her or his tiffin box which will be kept aside by the dabbawallas as volunteers empty out the food to be distributed to the children.
The networking of dabbawallas which includes carrying of home-cooked food in tiffins to offices, mostly in South Mumbai, is an extraordinarily efficient system conducted with precision having 200,000 children going hungry on the streets of Mumbai. This is making the joint venture for a cause with the dabbawallas highly appreciable across the Mumbai.
Kanu Priya Singh, vice-president of the Happy Life Welfare Society, while stressing on the matter of fact that it is not leftover food that will be given to the children and she continued expressing that quite often, many don’t want to eat their lunch while others may keep away part of their meal separately so as to willingly share their food as a result of which the food that may go as wastage is given to the children.
According to Share My Dabba, out of the 120 tons of food transported across the city via dabbas, around 16 tons goes as waste. While Singh says dabbawallas who are tight on time converge at six points in the city and disperse within 10 minutes after sorting out the dabbas. It is during this time that tiffins with stickers will be opened, food emptied and given to street kids who would gather at these set apart points. Raghunath Medge of the Dabbawallas Association said that only one sticky point remains prevalent that is that with 5,000 members they don’t have enough men to carry and deliver the dabbas. Therefore, where is the time to sort out tiffins with stickers and wait till the dabbas are emptied and put back while he mentioned that his organisation has nothing to do with this initiative.
On the contrary, Singh boldly taking into consideration said that they have yet to rule out certain obstacle yet they are getting an outstanding response from offices and restaurants eager to join this initiative which makes her determination more intense and she mentioned that she believes that everything will be organized to maximum efficiency in a months ahead.
That's a noble thought indeed!
Content resource: Gulf news
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