Sodexo - Stop Hunger offers emergency aid in COVID-affected communities
Mumbai/India, September 7, 2020
- Partners India Food Banking Network and Zomato Feeding India for community outreach
- Distribution of dry ration items and ready-to-eat packets among the daily wage earners and low-income families
- Initiative to cover 85,000 beneficiaries through the provision of more than 9,00,000 meals
The challenges currently being experienced as a result of Coronavirus (Covid-19) are unprecedented and sadly impacting many vulnerable people in our communities. Offering relief, Sodexo - Stop Hunger has joined hands with leading public service organizations – India Food Banking Network and Zomato Feeding India to offer aid to the daily wage-earners and low-income families in the local communities.
Under the initiative, Sodexo - Stop Hunger will supply dry ration kits and ready-to-eat packets to the partner organizations, who in turn will work with their NGO partners and local volunteers to make aid available to families which are impacted by COVID and lost livelihoods in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Patna and Varanasi.
The association with India Food Banking Network involves distribution of a 15-kg dry ration kit including cooking essentials like rice, wheat flour, pulses, oil and spices to 26,625 beneficiaries, while Zomato Feeding India is focusing on distribution of 60,000+ meal packets to migrant labourers, daily wage earners and stranded people at in-transit points in Delhi and Mumbai. Each meal kit contains water bottle, glucose biscuits, sattu (roasted gram or chana powder), chips, namkeen, roasted chana, soap strips and a face mask.
Sodexo - Stop Hunger along with partner organizations targets completion of this community service activity by mid-September 2020, in line with the National Nutrition Week campaign in the target cities, touching the lives of over 85,000+ beneficiaries with more than 9,00,000 meals.
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