Food Bank Coimbatore distributes food packets to 1,000 people

The NGO has distributed 40,000 food packets since its inception in 2015

August 28, 2017 08:10 am | Updated 08:10 am IST - COIMBATORE

Volunteers of Coimbatore Food Bank packing food for distribution as part of their 202nd Food Drive at VOC Park in the city on Sunday.

Volunteers of Coimbatore Food Bank packing food for distribution as part of their 202nd Food Drive at VOC Park in the city on Sunday.

Making Coimbatore a hunger-free city is our motto, said volunteers, who packed and distributed food to the needy at the 202nd food drive at VOC Park here on Sunday.

The Food Bank Coimbatore, an NGO started in 2015, is working towards making the city hunger-free, said its founder Vaishnavee Balaji.

The food drive was announced a week ago and a day after that, necessary groceries and vegetables had come in as contributions. A decorator who supplies cooking vessels on rental basis had given them utensils for cooking free of cost. On Saturday afternoon over 40 women gathered in a wedding hall and chopped the vegetables. About 70 volunteers started cooking early in the morning on Sunday and the menu included vegetable rice, eggs, onion raitha and laddu. The cooked items were taken to to VOC Park for packing. The food packets were distributed through the volunteers to about nine orphanages around the city and also at CMCH and near the Coimbatore Railway junction, Ms. Vaishnavee told The Hindu.

She said they had distributed 40,000 food packets through food drives conducted since inception. “We have been conducting food drives on two-wheelers in the city to provide home cooked fresh food for the needy on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. On this special occasion, we planned to create awareness on eradicating hunger and food sharing by organising the event at a common place in the city,” she said.

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