By Rucha Chudasama | Project Leader
On the 14th of November 2004, on the occasion of the children’s Day celebration in India, the ‘Manna Meals on wheels project was launched in two major cities of Goa, namely, Mapusa and Vasco; Today it has spread to Calangute, Panaji and Margao. Every day, meals are prepared, packed, transported and distributed to the hungry children, needy (old & sick) people who work in the market place selling polythene bags, rummaging through garbage bins for reusable articles, begging for alms, working as loaders or cleaning fish. Very often some of the children on street, who work all day long for a paltry sum of money, go to bed hungry as the money is taken away by their parents who spend it on alcohol or gamble it away. They come to the spot where the food packets are distributed and so are away from the evil which they otherwise are forced to witness. With the slogan of let no child go hungry we ensure that the children get at least one hot balanced meal a day. Though our focus is feeding children, we also feed old and needy people. Every noon in the three cities poor people await eagerly the staff who distributed these lunch packets on a daily basis.
The nutritious meals on wheels food packs consists of jeera rice, veg curry, fish fry, green peas curry, egg masala, rajma masala, chicken xacuti , veg fried rice, egg masala, pickle, papad and rice.
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