evergreen programme
no one should eat alone tonight ♡
a hot meal for someone who has stopped expecting one
why this exists ↓
A volunteer arrives at lunchtime with a steel tiffin. Two rotis, dal, sabzi, sometimes rice. The food matters. The knock matters more. Our recipients are elderly people living alone, often without family, often with nobody to talk to. The meal is the doorway.
4,200
daily meals
780
recipients
14
cities running
365
days a year
meet a real person ↓
retired schoolteacher · Pune
age 79 · retired schoolteacher · Pune
I had stopped cooking for myself. There seemed to be no point. The girl arrives with the tiffin and we sit. She tells me about her week. Then I eat.
Vimala taught Class 5 English in a Pune girls' school for thirty-eight years. Her husband died eight years ago. Their two children live abroad and call on Sundays. Last winter, a neighbour noticed she had stopped going out. She had stopped cooking. She was eating two slices of toast a day. Our volunteer, Ananya, started bringing the tiffin in March. She stays for ten minutes every visit. Vimala has gained four kilos. She has started reading her books again. She has corrected one of Ananya's English assignments. She is back to being a teacher.
here's how →
Local commercial kitchens cook the meals. Home-style menus rotated weekly.
Each volunteer has 10-15 recipients on a daily route. They knock, sit, talk, leave.
Volunteers note physical/mental changes. Concerning cases trigger a partner doctor visit.
choose your gift ↓
Every amount has a concrete outcome. Pick the one that feels right.
one meal
₹100
A hot tiffin delivered to one person, today.
Plus the conversation that comes with it
a month
₹3,000
Thirty days of meals for one elderly recipient.
Receive a thank-you note from them
a year
₹36,000
365 days of meals for one person — full year of dignity.
Meet them on a route visit
a city for a season
₹2,00,000
Three months of meals for an entire city route — about 60 people.
Annual visit + named programme run
more voices ↓
Vimala Aunty corrects my essays. She is my best teacher now.
Ananya Joshi
volunteer · Pune route
Forty years I cooked. Now someone cooks for me.
Iqbal Chacha
recipient · Hyderabad
I save half for the cat. She is also alone.
Lakshmi Aunty
recipient · Bengaluru
from the field ↓
honest answers ↓
you've made it this far ♡
Vimala Auntydoesn't know your name. They will know your kindness.
