Smile Away Hunger..!!
JULY 8th 2012 | Cubbon park, Bangalore(India) | 36meals.com
Meals Donation Day
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Appreciable initiative from the youth of
Bangalore who responded really well to the one fb update by Mr.Sujit Lalwani (Founder of
36meals.com) who pooled in at cubbon park, one of the most beautiful &
largest park of Bangalore. A m glad that I
was one among those 20 young leaders who made a decision of doing something
amazing and different on early Sunday morning!
36meals.com , a massively growing global project of ONE YOUNG WORLD, where they envision to see a HUNGER FREE world! As rightly put across by Mr.Sujit Lalwani, that people are dying more of hunger than any other diseases in this world. A campaign of offering meals to the needy people was planned and it was executed well more than what was planned.
36meals.com , a massively growing global project of ONE YOUNG WORLD, where they envision to see a HUNGER FREE world! As rightly put across by Mr.Sujit Lalwani, that people are dying more of hunger than any other diseases in this world. A campaign of offering meals to the needy people was planned and it was executed well more than what was planned.
It was not just a normal campaign where you
just offer the meal. It was more like a exciting adventurous task! We had to get minimum 3 meals (preferably
cooked at home) and report at cubbon park at 10am. More fun started when people started pouring
in and each one of them are strangers to you!
The terms of the task were :
> U were paired with a person whom you don’t know.
> U have to go to railway station, park your vehicle & COMPULSORILY take a BMTC bus (public transport bus in Bangalore)
> Go to a random area of Bangalore, Search for the needy people and offer them a meal.
>Not just offering a meal, but care & appreciation too! Make them smile and take a photo with them.
The terms of the task were :
> U were paired with a person whom you don’t know.
> U have to go to railway station, park your vehicle & COMPULSORILY take a BMTC bus (public transport bus in Bangalore)
> Go to a random area of Bangalore, Search for the needy people and offer them a meal.
>Not just offering a meal, but care & appreciation too! Make them smile and take a photo with them.
A brilliant experience started, started
knowing about my partner, random bus, random area., unknown people….. Started
searching for the people who are in need! We were in need of the people who
were in need, indeed! Couldn’t find one for first half an hour, walk of 4 kms…then
started finding one by one... We offered 8 meals to different age groups of
people from 6 yr young kid to 63 yr old person. Listened to their stories…
empathised with their emotions… understood their conditions…
They
felt out of the world not just because they got a meal, but they got some ears
to listen to them! They blessed us with the joy filled heart to live a
fulfilling lives! Just felt bliss! By offering meals , I deposited some
good deeds to my account in ‘Bank Of Goodness’, Accountant (God) appreciated me
in the form of blessings!
We reported back at dot 12.45pm! Each team was excited to share their experiences. Close to 100 meals were donated to needy people in matter of 2 hours in 10 different areas of Bangalore! 36meals.com also became a platform to network with like minded people from student community to professionals!
Concluding it, I completely agree with a Mr.Soundaram, software developer from Citrix who told “ Last night, when I got a call from my friend to participate in this campaign, I thought this will be one more normal donation camp. But this was just way beyond my expectation… It was fun, exciting and more fulfilling.!!”
We reported back at dot 12.45pm! Each team was excited to share their experiences. Close to 100 meals were donated to needy people in matter of 2 hours in 10 different areas of Bangalore! 36meals.com also became a platform to network with like minded people from student community to professionals!
Concluding it, I completely agree with a Mr.Soundaram, software developer from Citrix who told “ Last night, when I got a call from my friend to participate in this campaign, I thought this will be one more normal donation camp. But this was just way beyond my expectation… It was fun, exciting and more fulfilling.!!”
I whole heartedly thank 36meals.com for providing us such opportunity to experience something
really heart touching in matter of 3 hours! And also thank ONE YOUNG WORLD, a global organisation which is supporting
36meals.com and many such projects all across the world. Strongly envisions a day to shut down 36meals.com!
(A HUNGER FREE world where people are NO more dying because of lack of food.)
More info about the initiative : www.36meals.com
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