A meal that comes with love.
I am writing to give a big “thank you” to the many people who responded to our cry for help last week. Thanks to your generosity we can move forward every day by serving 800 meals. This is 5000 meals served in approximately one week, all made possible because of you. It’s not cheap and it really has stretched our resources, both in terms of finances, strategic planning, not to mention the physical effort and activation of our entire ‘Project Help’ Team. Behind the scenes everyone is working incredibly hard, however only a few people who are permitted by the local magistrate to go out on the streets, to deliver and serve the food during this time of enforced national lockdown.
It really is a modern day of the feeding of the 5000, meals delivered with a message of God’s hope and love and you are part of this story and miracle.
Below, I have included a report written by one of our team (thanks Gipsa!) …and just because it’s really interesting, I have included the shopping list, for what is required in one day to cook and feed 800 people (and probably some extra toddlers and elderly).
Our weekly COVID-19 crisis shopping list
80kg rice - 3200rupees = $71.10AUD
22kg lentils – 2200rupees = $48.90AUD
7 litres mustard oil – 700rupees = $15.55AUD
6kg salt – 120rupees = $2.66AUD
4.5kg coriander powder – 1215rupees = $27AUD
3kg turmeric powder - 813rupees = $18AUD
1kg red chilli powder – 340rupees = $7.55AD
500g cumin seeds – 120rupees = $2.66AUD
6.5kg onions – 650rupees = $14.44AUD
6.5kg tomatoes – 390rupees = $8.66AUD
105kg wheat flour – 3150rupees = $70AUD
40kg vegetables – 3200rupees = $71.10AUD
2.5kg potatoes – 75rupees = $1.66AUD
3 LPG gas cylinders – 2400rupees = $53.33AUD
Total Amount Payable INR 18,573 ($412.73AUD) for per day for the meal packs.
Can you contribute to this weekly shopping list? How about sponsor the purchase of a week’s supply of rice ($71), lentils ($48), onions ($14), spices, vegetable or gas?
As you throw in a few extra “just in case” things into your shopping trolley this week, please remember our friends in Kotdwara who need these essentials. This is not panic buying, rather, it’s a matter of life or death for them! Also please pray for India, as it is a nation that is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis.
Greetings of the day
Hope you are doing well. This mail is to inform you that we are now already serving 400 people at one time a day and this service we provide two times a day so it is about 800 meals a day we are distributing. Yes brother, you are right that this service is not only for our slums family. As we have informed you before that we are requested by the government officials to provide food for the needy people (poor, daily wage labours, people who are stuck in Kotdwara due to lockdown, utensil sellers or other door to door sellers etc). For this we have got special permissions and as the government is seeing our work by our daily updates they have appointed a government employee Mr. Sumit and a policeman with us for our safety and care. We are maintaining paper work also on daily basis in which we are taking signatures, name and phone numbers of the people to whom we are distributing the food packets. We have to submit a copy of this data to the government District Magistrate Office. The Government officials are very thankful to us and they are appreciating our work. The area where we are distributing the meal packs are different slum areas of Kotdwara like Jhoolabasti, Lakdipadao, Aampadao, including our city and slum centres homes and some other places where we are getting instructions by the government office.
We are serving about 100 families on an average per day with meal packets. These people says that “you people are like God’s angles to us, if you would not have given us food then our kids and us might have died because of hunger, as our daily food depends on our daily earnings, so if there is no earning that it means there is no food”
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Donate - You can make your tax deductible donation by clicking any of the DONATE HERE buttons on this website. As you click the link ensure that you are donating to (WYG-IND-PHI-2020).
OR if tax deductibility is not required, your EFT donation can be made at
BSB: 062 230 (Commonwealth Bank Randwick)
Account: 1134 1909
Account Name: Project Help India
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This comes with our love and thanks. Our prayers are also with you during this very difficult time. May God be with you.
