Food Programs

MCKS

Delhi/NCR

Monetary support for mid-day meals to handicapped and underprivileged children’s school, run by Akshay Prathisthan at Vasant Kunj area from last six years. The school caters to more than 300 hundred poor children.
Provide for 120kg grains on a monthly basis for the last two years to Blind Welfare Society for food assistance to blind girls’ hostel at Nihal Vihar.
Provide 1000kg wheat every month to Dayanand Ashram, Kheda Khurd, where more than 130 poor students are getting education from various states.
Provide 2400kg flour from the last 6 years to Manav Sewa Sansthan situated at Chattarpur. Dry ration is also distributed to 240 adopted senior citizens. All these senior citizens are from nearby villages and are either living separate from children or the children have left them.
Provide 200kg grain to Udayan Care for their orphanage from last 5 years. Udayan care is running 18 Udayan Care home for orphan boys and girls in and around Delhi.
Support is given to Servants of People Society for mid day meals given to Madanpur Khader Balwadi center. There are 50 students studying between the age group of 1.5 to 3 years of age and we are associated with them for the last 5 years.
Provide free meal coupon to 20 needy girls studying at Janki Devi Memorial College, Rajander Nagar from last 4 years. All these girls are identified by the social welfare department of the college and referred to us for mid day meal support.
Provide dry grains for lunch and snacks to Khoj Foundation. This organization is running education and recreation center for street children in Munirka. There are more than 50 boys and girls enrolled for this programme and we are supporting them for a year.
Provide breakfast, lunch & dinner to a de-addiction center at Kotla Mubarakpur run by SPYM. Apart from this, in the same are we are running a nutrious food programme and providing for the hunger needs of around 100 homeless people.
Provide 50kg rice and 15kg pulses to Holy Child Children Home situated at Rajauri Garden where 14 orphan and poor children are living.
Provide monetary support to Nulife NGO at Gurgaon for their day care center at Nehru Nagar. Around 50 children of construction labourers are provided free education by them and nutritional support by us.
Run a feeding program at Yamuna Pusta are, opposite ISBT Kashmiri Gate for homeless people. There are around 200 people who are fed with hot nutritious food in the evening every day.
Distribute food packets on monthly bases to 150 slum dwelling households at Rajander Nagar. A survey was conducted to identify needy families. These families were helped to get ration cards issued in their name and they are given ration every month. 5kg Atta, 2kg rice, 2kg pulse, 1kg sugar and ½ liter oil in one food packet ensures that they have food security for a minimum of 10 days. The project was initiated in the month of August 2014 by Pranic Healer Mr. Ankit Gupta.

Utter Pradesh

Provide dry ration to Guild of Service (Maa Dham) for their Maa Dham project which is running in Vrindavan (Mathura). There are more than 100 aged widow living in the area.
Monetary support is given to Pardada Pardadi Education Society on a monthly basis for the last 6 years. This organization is running a girls school in Anoopshshar, Bulandshshar Dist. for poor and marginalized girls where more than 500 girls are taking free education in good environment along with health and other facilities . This support is extended towards their mid-day meals.

Rajasthan

In Rajasthan, the feeding program is run in Udaipur for pregnant women, TB patients, orphans and school children to provide them nutritious food. This program running with the help of The Children’s Trust from last 5 years on a monthly basis.

Jharkhand

Provide monetary support to Sahyog Village for their Orphanage at Khunti, Ranchi. There are around 80 orphan children between 1 to 15 years of age are living here. We are associated with them for the last 1 year.

Uttrakhand

Provide complete food support to 15 old Tibetan monks who are living at Dehradun. A home for the aged run by Gaser Charity Foundation; which is Dalai Lama’s Organization. We are supporting them for the last three years.

Himanchal Pradesh

Provide daily (3 times) meals to 50 young Tibetan refugee students who are studying in Dharamshala, Himanchal Pradesh with the help of Dalai Lama’s organization Gaser Charity Foundation. They all come from Tibet and are learning English and Hindi language.

Orissa

Distribute rice to the poor families of Kalahandi district four times in a year. More than 10000 families in last three years have benefitted by the support extended by us. This ration distribution program happens in TH Rampur & Bhawanipatna blocks and it has also strengthened our ties with the community.

Grain Banks: A grain bank provides a way for the village to decrease or eliminate dependence on private money lenders. During harvest time, each family in the village contributes a small amount of grain to a community grain bank. This physical surplus of grain is safely stored until it is needed. Families are able to take loans of grain and then repay it when they are able, with a minimal rate of interest determined by the community. A village committee manages the loans, resulting in greater autonomy for the village.

At Koraput district MCKS initiated 25 grain banks in 2011 and another 25 in the next year. A total of 1386 households are covered in 50 grain banks. Out of these, 986 (majority) are tribal, 154 are Dalit and 244 are from other backward communities.

The grain bank began with 8538 kg of paddy 3356 kg of raggi from community contributions and MCKS supported with 29500 kg paddy & 20500 kg raggi. In the first year 799 families and in the 2nd year 1907 families have already taken loan within 2011 to 2013. Some families have availed loan in both the years. The grain bank started with 61849 KG of grains and within two years it has grown up to 75078 KG of grains. With addition of 13184 KG which of 21 % more at present, this stock will grow each year.

Cashew Processing Unit: For the sustainable livelihood of tribal & dalit women MCKS FFHF supported SPREAD to initiate a Cashew Cooperative Processing Unit in Tapaganda of Bilaput GP of Koraput distt. Around 2000 tribal women can earn a good profit for their livelihood after working in this processing unit. SPREAD also facilitated Women SHG groups to start this processing unit.