Wanting To Donate More Vehicles

These dabbawalas have become so much a part of the city’s fabric that one often overlooks their existence in the daily rush. Sivanandan pitched in with a vehicle to help the dabbawalas in their endeavour to feed the city’s populace. At the moment we have 200 dabbawals working on the initiative,” says Subhash Talekar, Mumbai dabbawala chief. Food served to those in need by dabbawalas“We have one vehicle, two more are to come.You can call 8655580001 or 9111891118, should you wish to give away food.However, the financial capital of India holds the largest network of dabbawalas, whose daily routine involves delivering food from homes to offices. These vehicles will be installed with GPS and the driver, who is a dabbawala, is going to be provided with a cell phone. Nittin and I felt the need to return our share to society. We wanted to deal with this issue separately. And we have also got many people coming forward wanting to donate more vehicles.“We have been distributing the leftovers from lunchboxes to China wholesale Composite Material poor people for the past two years on our own.

In the long run, Mumbai Roti Bank plans to tie-up with restaurants, hotels and target people having parties at home. And, who better to help out with this initiative than dabbawalas, who come across leftovers in lunch boxes on a daily basis,” explains Sivanandan. Eventually, however, the existence of the vehicle led to a whole other project — Mumbai Roti Bank. We also have disposable cutlery in the vehicle to s.rve people,” adds SivanandanThe service, starting officially from today, is just a call away and will be available between South Mumbai to Dadar. But we want to take it a little slow for now,” Shweta signs off.While the dabbawalas are well aware of the pockets to cater to, the bank also has a counsellor onboard who will help them in hunger mapping. As per a report published by International Food Policy Research Institute in 2017, India ranks at 100th position on the Global Hunger Index among 119 countries. Each manages around 500 dabbas, with their days ending in bringing back the empty tiffin boxes.. Now, thanks to the duo behind the Roti Bank, the food will be carried in stainless steel utensils.“It is usually after lunch or dinner that people give away food.Seeing the potential in this section of the workforce, retired IPS officer D.Every morning, if one were to walk down to a train station, they’d find men sporting white cap, shouldering lunchboxes wrapped in cases, or rushing towards a train with a trolley-full of dabbas, balanced on their heads.

“As it is recent, you will see a lot of action happening in next few days.Thus far, these lunch deliverymen had been using plastic bags to deliver the leftover food to the needy. “So far, we have identified places like Tata Memorial Hospital, KEM hospital, and Sion hospital as target areas to send food to,” says Sivanandan. Shweta Mangal, director of MUrgency, which is supporting Mumbai Roti Bank with 24x7 helpline numbers explains that the vehicles will be parked at Shivaji Park and the pickup time will be between 4 pm to 12 am. But we didn’t have a vehicle to carry all the food. “There are 190 million people who go without food each day in this country. The minimum quantity has to be for 20 people to start with and we will not take any dairy products,” explains Shweta. It was Sivanandan sir, who provided us with a car to make things easier for us.The brainchild of Sivanandan and his UK-based friend Nittin Khanapurkar, the aim of establishing Mumbai Roti Bank is to bridge the gap between people who are willing to donate food and those who are in need of food.