They provide fresh and healthy food to the homeless, poor and needy. Either funds or freshly cooked food can be offered by donors.
B-34 Keshav Kunj, Jaipur House, Agra 282002
89587 01801
Over 3,000 meals are served for free daily to the needy. Each meal costs Rs 35 for which cash donations are solicited. Meal consists of rice/chapati and daal, or khichdi (rice and lentils) and sabzi (vegetable curry)
551, Harsidhnagar, Opp.Akashneem Bungalow, Bodakdev Thaltej, Ahmedabad 380054
78740 00087
Anyone who wishes to join Roti Bank is allotted a code number. Each member is requested to 'deposit' at the Roti Bank freshly cooked two rotis and a plate of veg or non-veg food that they prepare for family at home daily. Over 500 poor, aged or unemployed people come to the Roti Bank and 'withdraw' rotis and a veg or a non-veg dish.
Jinsi Baijipura Road, Aurangabad 431001, Maharashtra
Yusuf Mukati
Breakfast is served every Sunday at orphanages, blind schools, old age homes, leprosy centers and slums. Beneficiaries include underprivileged children, senior citizens, construction workers etc.
No 1, Chinnaswamy Mudaliar Road, Taskar Town, Shivajinagar, Bangalore 560051
Cheran: 88613 82382
Distribute freshly prepared food to the homeless and people in shelters. Also collect surplus food from restaurants and caterers of weddings and parties.
Ravi Shankar
97384 80882
Started in a small way in Bangalore in 2000 and now is being carried forward in other cities by NGOs. Today hot, nutritious and fresh meals are served daily to 20,000 poor, needy & hungry children across pockets of poverty in these cities.
301, Shravanthi Palace, 3rd Floor, 3rd Cross, CR Layout, JP Nagar 1st Phase,
Bangalore 560078
90717 15370
This initiative provides meals (a) In schools to encourage increased enrollment and attendance (b) In hospitals and clinics to support patients’ nutritional needs and complement their treatments (c) To people in crisis to cope with their daily survival needs before they are able to organize their livelihoods
302, 3rd Cross, 9H Main Road, HRBR Layout 1st Block, Kalyan Nagar Post,
Bangalore 560043
080-2542 6948, 91084 03329
Registered individual donors freshly prepare vegetarian food, which then is collected and distributed by volunteers. Distribution is in slum areas of Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Delhi and Gurgaon.
Selina Elias
Bangalore: 96551 35151, Chennai: 98848 32784, Delhi: 99996 77331 Pune: 97186 43555
individuals and companies can donate grains and packaged food (biscuits, snacks). These are distributed through a network of community based organizations or NGOs that run feeding programs at schools for underprivileged children, homeless shelters, old age homes, orphanages, charitable hospitals etc.
Bangalore: 95380 35252, Delhi: sms to 58888, Kokata: 93310 17111
Rice, dal and kadhi are served during lunch time, except during Ramzan when the food is served at Iftar time. Locations where food is served: (a) Bangalore: Outside Nimhans Hospital (b) Hyderabad: (i) Under Dabeerpura flyover, Chanchalguda (ii) Outside Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital & Rajiv Gandhi TB Hospital (c) Raichur: Gowshala Road
16-4-190, Dabeerpura Flyover, Dabeerpura South, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad 500024.
Azhar Maqsusi
99499 55386
Food is distributed throughout Bhubaneswar to the needy. They individually approach each every person to make sure that the food goes to only the neediest and hungry person. On special requests, premium quality food is provided to the unprivileged.
730, Arjun Market Complex, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar 751012
94370 90931, 79780 44197
This community kitchen, located near the Sikh temple, feeds an average of 1000 people (patients and their families) daily. As part of Sikh culture, the family members of patients assist in preparing and cooking the meals as a form of service.
Serves free food to patients and their attendants outside PGIMER and GMCH daily. Has been feeding over 2,000 persons daily from the past 15 years. Also provides financial assistance, blankets and clothes.
Outside Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Reseach - PGIMER (Sector 12) and Govt Medical College & Hospital - GMCH (Sector 32)
Wish to feed the poor and homeless of Chennai with a simple, home-cooked food? You can do that once a week or as often as you can. Cook a simple meal, pack it neatly and hand it over to the Food Bank's locality champion in your area. There are 14 locality groups on Chennai and you may join the one located nearest to you.
Anandh SG: 98414 39446, Ajay Kumar: 97860 11166, 90036 61122,
Shabarish: 99445 52929
Their 'Mutti Bhar Anaj Yojana' involves depositing a handful of rice daily in a separate container. Once the container is full it will be collected by the RYA. People can donate a bag of rice by joining the 'Anna Dan Yojana'. They serve about 80 institutions in Chennai consisting of orphanages, old age homes and education institutions.
12 Saravana Street, T. Nagar. Chennai 600017.
044-2431 2096, 4212 8153.
This initiative by Gautam Gambhir provides lunch at a cost of Re 1 to 2000 people in the 2 markets listed below. Serves daily wagers, rickshaw pullers, rag pickers and other marginalised persons. Service is daily, except on Mondays. Menu includes channa rice, kadhi rice, rajma rice, halwa, fruits, pulao etc.
(a) Gandhi Nagar wholesale market (b) New Ashok Nagar market
88825 92665, 74289 41931
This is a mobile kitchen service that provides healthy, nutritious, tasty, hygienically packed meal boxes which are served to the less privileged at vantage places in Delhi like slums, orphanages, old age homes, schools, hospitals etc.
Ms Manika
98119 82272
Their volunteers cook fresh food and meal consists fo dry sabzi & rotis. 3000 meals are served daily to the underprivileged from 50+ centres.
Ms Jasmine Bhatia
98114 25299
Serve wholesome freshly-cooked mid-day meal to over 16 lakh school children. Cooking is done in 34 centralised kitchens across 12 States. Each food kitchen serves a set of schools located around it.
Delhi: 0124-427 6920, Hyderabad: 040-4003 1456, Kolkata: 98309 88627,
Mumbai: 98203 73990, Pune: 020-6723 6211, Extn: 6211
Feeding children across India everyday needs a lot of support of daily ration and groceries. Individuals, schools and companies are requested to donate Dal, Rice, Oil, Wheat Flour, Milk, Eggs, Vegetables and Fruits. Also accepted are all non-perishable dry food / non-food products.
D82/A, Nangal Devat Village, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070
85859 95995
19 feeding programs are ongoing with full/partial support of the foundation in Delhi/NCR, U.P., Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttrakhand & Jharkhand. More than 1200 people gets food every day.
B-127A, B-Block, Vasant Kunj Enclave, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070
011-2689 8844, 2689 8866, 98738 00500
Serve free wholesome food to twice a week to underprivileged patients and their families outside AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospitals. They also feed children who come from a far-off places to Delhi hospitals for often longer treatments.
113A/1, Adchini, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110017
011-2656 1333 / 1444
This initiative feeds hundreds of underprivileged people at the address below in Sector 29 for just Rs 5 every day. Good quality healthy food is served.
Shop No 39 & Shop No 150, Block I, Ganga Shopping Complex, Sector 29, Noida 201301
Anoop Khanna
98995 37711
Lunch is served here for poor and needy for a token payment of one rupee. In fact, Mr Venkatraman visits the nearby Government Hospital every day to locate the poor and needy who are then handed over a one-rupee token.
Near Government Hospital, Edayankattuvalasu, Erode, Tamil Nadu
96290 94020.
This canteen has been serving lunch each day for over 200 needy persons at a nominal amount of Rupee 1 from the past 6 years.The food comprises of two chapatis, rice, vegetable curry. Sweets are served once a week.
Kanchgar Galli, Hubballi, Karnataka
Mukesh Hinger: 94483 63431
This program provides 200 meals at lunch time to attendants of poor patients staying in Sivananda Shelter Home, adjoining Gandhi Hospital. The program is financed by Gandhi Medical College Global Alliance (GMCGA), catered by Hare Krishna Society and managed by Seva Bharthi.
C/o Sivananda Shelter Home, Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, Hyderabad 500025
97048 70703, 97005 25125
Every Sunday, volunteers come together to cook food for close to 800 people. The food packets are delivered in the streets of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Badruka Enclave, Flat no A-104, Road Number 12, Above Andhra Bank, Nandi Nagar, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034
Arun Daniel Yellamaty, Founder & President
98853 42224
Distribute hot meals, fruits, rice and groceries to underprivileged children, women and the elderly living in slums and on the street. Request donation of food, fruits, groceries etc.
H.No.28/118, Subhas Chandra Bose Nagar, Miyapur, Hyderabad 500049
V,V,Chary
80080 13563
Free breakfast (upma and the like) is distributed to 700 to 1,000 people every day outside Koti Maternity Hospital and Nilofer Children's Hospital, both in Hyderabad. This is a great help for poor people from villages who come to these Govt hospitals for treatment.
Mohd Sujathullah
96760 54142
Khwaja runs this popular food channel on YouTube. The channel has over 7 lakh subscribers. He posts 2 to 3 food cooking videos each week and after the video is shot, the entire cooked food is distributed to children in orphanages. That way, close to 1200 kids are fed every month.
Khwaja Moinuddin
They carry prepared food in their Anna Daatha Mobile to various places in the Hyderabad city every day and feed beggars, homeless and the hungry. Food is also distributed to destitute homes, old age homes, orphanages, shelters home and outside Government hospitals.
Plot No 9, Priya Colony, Near Dhanalakshmi Kirana Store, Kakaguda, Karkhana, Secunderabad, Hyderabad 500015.
95503 35994, 040-2774 0994
Have set up a daily kitchen in Mahapura suburb of Jaipur which provides one time fresh and warm food to over 2000 children living on street, sidewalks, temporary tents and slums. Once food is ready, the staff visit the various streets and slum sites throughout the day and ladle out the food.
23 Mahatma Gandhi Nagar, DCM, Ajmer Road, Jaipur 302021
98281 5331, 0141-235 2576
Under this campaign, Rice & Dal are served to around 100-125 people every Wednesday and Saturday. This is youth-based organisation striving for welfare of underprivileged sections of society by various means.
A-18, Classic Residency, Hem Marg, New Sanganer Road, Sodala, Jaipur 302019
96490 20121
At least 200 poor persons daily are fed daily at a nominal price of Rs 10 from a stall at the address below. Hygienic and nutritious food is served between 6:30 pm to 8 pm. Consists of chapattis, rice and a vegetable dish that varies each day.
SCF-52, Opp Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Urban Estate, Phase-1, Jalandhar.
Dr Inderdeep Singh: 80171 01076, Dr Abhinav Mehta: 75893 58735, 94647 80812, Parminder Dargan: 99140 42135
This project is for senior citizens who need nutrition, but have no means. This free meal service involves supply of breakfast from 9 am to 12 pm and supper from 6 pm to 9 pm. Both the meals are delivered to homes of the needy at no extra cost.
B-17 Pratap Nagar, Near Ambedkar Park, Jodhpur 342004
89556 88886
Every day they provide dinner for 40-50 downtrodden people near town flyover at Kakinada.
#3-10/3, Ramakrishna Nagar, Vakalapudi, Kakinada
Shyam Jagadeesh
96666 92113
Jagorani serves food to those who are homeless, mentally and physically disabled, poor and elderly.
G1, S.S.Heights, AC-130, Prafullakanan East, Kestopur, Kolkata 700101
81001 55055
They provide nutritious midday meals to destitute elderly from slums in Budhavarapeta, Kurnool every day. Most are homeless or live in huts but do have means to cook. You may choose to sponsor mid-day meals for one month or donate any amount you desire. You can also donate clothes, blankets, toiletries, sweaters, rice, dal, vegetables etc.
D.No.46-740, Budhavarapeta, Kurnool 518002, AP
98499 77577, 08518-255 626
Rotis and curry are donated daily by around 700 families, which are distributed to 1,000 needy people on door-to-door basis. Collection takes place by 7 pm so that distribution can occur by dinner time. For convenience, have installed boxes at 21 places in Mahoba where people can drop food between 10 am and 7 pm.
Milky Pura, Mahoba 210427, U.P.
Tara Patkar
91183 21321
Over 150 Food packets are distributed every evening at 7.30 pm day to the lame, sick and hungry. Distribution is to the persons who assemble near their van parked in the vicinity of Mangalore railway station.
5, Fernitz Apts, Opp. Vas Bakery, Near Bendore Church, Mangalore-575002
Corrine Rasquinha
0824-425 8393, 98805 17078
This movement is being carried out at four public hospitals in Mumbai namely Wadia Children’s Hospital, Tata Cancer Hospital, KEM Hospital and Nair Hospital. Patients are provided with morning breakfast and fruits. Caretakers of patients receive tiffins.
C/o. Gada & Haria, 5 Framroz Court, 2nd Floor, Dadasaheb Phalke Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai 400014
Vikas Vira
72082 01919
Their Thane centre gathers food and grains donated by local residents and donates it to impoverished senior citizens located in Thane slum areas of Kailash Nagar, Indira Nagar, and Boudha Vihar. CORP serves 13 slum communities across greater Mumbai & Thane, through 20 centers.
Methodist Centre, 1st Floor, 21 YMCA Road, Mumbai Central, Mumbai 400008
022-2308 6789
Roti Ghar has its own centralized kitchen which feeds healthy and freshly cooked food to 600 kids daily & 1200 kids weekly.
Chinnu Kwatra
97691 81218
More than 150 underprivileged men, women and children are fed breakfast every morning, 365 days of the year since 1997, outside Glory Shop located on the main road of Four Bungalows area of Andheri West.
Janakbhai Raja: 98200 29926, Mahesh Hingorani: 99209 00601
On most Sundays, they serve food for about 50 persons. The meal is sponsored by any well-wisher. You too can sponsor the meal by submitting a post on their Facebook page.
Ketan Sangoi
98214 39593
The organisation provides mid-day meals to school children in and around the DBM centre in Govandi, Mumbai. Meals are served at lunch time for the entire year. The meals are hygienically prepared.
Motibai Thackersey Building, Mahalaxmi Compound, Opp. Dhakaleshwar Temple, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai 400026
022-2352 8899, 98191 08191
This 4-year old venture is an initiative by parishioners of St Theresa's Church, Bandra. Twice a week lunch is served to 80-100 needy people in the church compound. Meal consists of rice, dal and vegetables.
St. Theresa's Church, St Theresa Marg, TPS III, Bandra, Mumbai 400050.
Thelma D'Silva
022-2640 7891, 2651 1901
Over 2,000 below-poverty-line families are served lunch and dinner by the Foundation. This is accomplished by two community kitchens located at Kurla and Ulhasnagar as well as 300+ volunteers.
Whatsapp: 76698 06470
He delivers food every day at noon to the homes of elderly who are infirm or ill or disabled in IC Colony, Borivali (W). The food packed in dabbas is sufficient for 3 meals and consists of chapatis, dal, rice, vegetable and a gravy dish. He also helps the seniors to fill-out forms, complete bank work and drives them to doctors' appointments.
Crrystal Care Service, K 3, Vershi Villa, Opposite IC Bakery, Near IC Post Office, IC Colony, Borivali West, Mumbai
98338 53523
Fresh & nutritious food cooked in their own kitchen is served daily in schools, outside hospitals, destitute homes, educational institutions, cancer centres, slums etc. The meal consists of Dal, Rice, Roti, Vegetable and sometimes a fruit or a sweet.
1203, One World Centre, Tower 2B, Floor 12B, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg,
Elphinstone Road, Mumbai 400013
86555 80001
Any old or needy person can get a food packet consisting of 6 chappatis, vegetable and one banana for a cost of Rs 5 between 11 am to 1 pm daily. In order to ensure that only genuinely needy benefit, xerox copies of Aadhaar card, ration card and electricity bills would have to be shown.
575, Niranjan Parekh Marg, Edenwala Cross Road, Matunga, Mumbai 400019.
Dr Meena Goshar: 098193 17038
Provide 100 tiffin lunch boxes of healthy and delicious food elderly people at their doorstep. The dabbas suffice for both lunch and dinner. Delivery is through the dabbawala service. In addition, the Trust provides nutritious breakfast to about 250 children.
B/2, Kothari Estate, Ratanshi Damji Plot, Gulshan Gully, Near Sharon School, Mulund (W), Mumbai 400080
84518 28080, 90041 35858
The group feeds wholesome food every Sunday to about 300 needy persons at Chunabhatti which is a central suburb on the harbour train line. Food is also served to relatives of patients at Sion Hospital daily in the mornings and evenings.
211 / 5, Beas, Sion Main Road, Opp LTMG Sion Hospital, Sion (E), Mumbai 400022.
Whenever there is a calamity like floods in any part of India, they collect 'Theplas' (a kind of roti) from donors and send them over to the location. They seek donation of half-kg packs of Green Moong, Sukha Chana, Sukha Vatana and Aakha Masoor towards nutrition donation to poor villagers in Palghar.
Kalpana, Besant Street, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054
Rintu Rathod
022-2612 9973, 86919 58484
Every Sunday food is served to children living on the streets of Andheri (W) and Jogeshwari (W). Food is cooked at the homes of organisers. Clothes are also donated to the needy.
Dishant Sheth & Piyush Kamdar
90293 84904, 90294 73300
Most poor households in Govandi suburb of Mumbai do not have any ration card. To help them, Udaan Foundation has issued their own private ration card, to provide following essentials worth Rs 500 p.m.: 5 Kg rice, wheat, dal, sugar, tea powder, soaps and toothpaste.
Govandi, Mumbai
Suraiya Shaikh
97730 27573
Tiffin lunch boxes are home-delivered in Mira-Bhayander area to elderly individuals who have no support. Tiffins consist of eight chapattis, sabji, dal and rice with diabetics receiving low-calorie, low-sugar meals.
022-2818 0842
Serve over 500 needy people every day with breakfast at Re 1 and lunch at Rs 10. Breakfast is of poha or upma, whereas lunch has 2 chapatis, 1 vegetable, rice and dal. The kitchen is manned mainly by eunuchs.
Mata Ramabai Hotel, Near Rukminibai Hospital, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Circle, Bhoiwada, Kalyan West
Poonam Singh
The Trust, started by charity-minded local businessmen, distributes food packets consisting of 3 rotis and a vegetable dish every day between 12 noon to 2 pm to about 400 persons daily. The beneficiaries include daily wage labourers, students, travellers, autorickshaw drivers, beggars and the destitute.
Chandragupta Road, Near Sangam Talkies, Mysore
Anil Kothari
97421 65566
They deliver 100 thali meals every Saturday to the homeless living across Nagpur.
Nischay: 72599 09787
200 Children attend their 'Shiksha ki Asha' programme in Wadgaonshery, Hadapsar and Talegaon. The children get daily nutrition and single mothers in the community get monthly ration. Ration consists of rice, wheat, pulses, legumes, oil, sugar, groundnut, jaggery. Donors may contribute in multiples of 1 kg and the sealed packets will be collected.
Pakia Nivas Building, Mamta Housing Society, S No 57/1/1, Near Stella Maris School, Vadgaonsheri, Pune 411014
020-2703 2423, 2703 2422
Under their 'Project Bread', grocery kits are provided to people who cannot afford to procure daily grocery needs anymore.
New Anand Nagar, Kishoreganj, Harmu Road, Ranchi 834001
Nishant Akhouri
91550 91311
Serve over 200 meals daily to the needy. The organization's goals are nutrition, education and medical support to improve the lives of underprivileged children and women in Jharkhand.
Vikas Singh
88828 90002
Serve food packets daily to 450 persons (Homeless, elderly, physically challenged, mentally disabled etc) throughout areas like Salem Town, Sellanaikanpatty, Kondalampatty, Neethimedu, Annathanpatty, Rajaganapathy Kovil, 1st Agraharam, 2nd Agraharam, Ammapet Cinna Kondalampatty, Mallur etc.
Periyaswamy: 94433 42116, Suresh: 95855 51355, Mohan: 94456 67487
The NGO is running five Roti Banks in Shimla at Sanjauli, Totu, Kasumpati, Lakkar bazaar and Lower Bazar. Each volunteer family makes 10 fresh chapatis every day. These are collected and served to the poor and destitute. Also dinner is served daily outside IGMC Hospital & Dental College Hospital to patients and their attendants.
Sarbjeet Singh 'Bobby'
94180 61000, 94180 26572, 0177-280 6100
Their focus is on feeding food to hungry children from poverty-stricken backgrounds who need food to curb hunger. Home-cooked food is collected and distributed by volunteers. Donors also come forward to sponsor meals served on any particular day.
Darshan Chandan
98250 89881
Contact them for donation of foodstuff for their following ongoing projects in various cities: Seva Kitchen (food for patients' relatives) at 8 locations, Neki ka Pitara (fridge filled with fruits, lassi, biscuits, juices etc) in 13 hospitals & 7 schools, Milk Seva (milk for poor children) at 10 locations, Jars of Kindness (jars of cookies & snacks for children) at 8 locations.
Khushroo Poacha
95610 11264
Wish to feed the poor & underprivileged? Choose an area in your city where such people are seen and arrange to provide a regular meal daily or once a week.
Require food for an initiative to feed the hungry? Get food cooked through well-wishers or source food from an eatery.
Need a team for the food donation initiative to take-off? Approach like-minded neighbours and friends to form a small core group.
Are you a running a restaurant? Consider handing over a few food packets to poor in the vicinity daily or once in a week. The food packet can consist of a simple meal of rice, dal and vegetable.
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Donation of regular meals to the needy…
Around the globe ‘World Hunger Day’ is marked on May 28 and the stark reality is that for one-fourth of Indians, from the poor, underprivileged, elderly and homeless sections of society, every day is a hunger day with no means for adequate food or nutrition.
Hunger leads to malnutrition which in turn leaves people susceptible to diseases. The situation is particularly poignant in respect of children considering the fact that half of all kids younger than three years old in India weigh too little for their age.
While eradication of poverty remains the long-term goal, in the interim the short-term goal would be to harness the resources of well-to-do Indians and feed the multitudes so that no adult or child goes to bed hungry. The corporate sector, as a part of their CSR initiatives, is doing its bit but much more needs to be done by them as well as by NGOs and individuals.
We present below in 'Whom Can You Contact' section work being done in various parts of India by organizations and good-hearted individuals to feed the poor, needy, the underprivileged, the elderly and the homeless.
Go ahead and donate food in your city…
Many of us are pricked by the contrast between our own easy spending and the widespread deprivation around us, but have no idea how to help. You can move from quiet guilt to effective action by helping to combat hunger among deserving people.
Either on your own or by forming a team of like-minded people you can arrange to cook simple meals and distribute them to the needy in your city.
Alternately, you can replicate similar work being done as described in 'Whom Can You Contact?' section below. For guidance, you can even talk to the do-gooders whose phone numbers are listed. If a group is already active in your city, you can spare some time for the cause and join them as a volunteer.
If that is not possible you can consider donating them needed foodstuffs. Last but not the least, every person likes a pat on his back and you should applaud the Good Samaritans for their selfless work.