“If you can’t feed a hundred people then feed just one” – Mother Theresa Every living being in this world feels hungry on daily basis. Food is one of our most basic need as humans , it can affect nearly everything we do. We are all aware that there are millions of people who are starving out there each day.
It is commonly known that the cause of world hunger is not the shortage of food but rather the access to it. It is ridiculous that there is more fruit in a rich man’s shampoo than on the poor man’s plate.
Here are some facts :-
- 82% of hungry people live in countries with food surpluses, not food shortages
- One in every eight people sleeps hungry each night
- One third of the food produced around the world is never consumed
- Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, Malaria and terrorism combined.
Here is a wonderful organisation which aims to eliminate hunger.
Robin Hood Army was started back in August 2014 with a main focus on eliminating hunger and wastage of food. It is a initiative by Neel Ghose. Started off with Delhi, India, now serving 150 cities around the world.
Main Motto : ‘Serve The Hungry Citizens‘
This is modelled on Portugal’s Re-food Program.
How do they serve the need?
They reach out to restaurants and people, collect the surplus food and then feed those who are hungry.
At present they have +42030 volunteers (called Robins) serving nearly 150 cities around the world and have served food for 16.7 million people so far. Isn’t it amazing!
In 2016 they even started a Robin Hood Academy with an idea of teaching the street children about basic knowledge and helps them to go to school. They empowered nearly +2700 street children.
How can you help them?
By donating money ?? Nahh…. This Organisation is volunteer based, zero fund organisation.
Here’s what you can do :-
1. Be a Robin, contribute 3 hours per week, twice a month.
2. Contribute food, you can reach out to them incase you own a restaurant or you can donate a regular meal from family.
3. You can spread your knowledge by teaching the kids.
- Their recent campaign is #Mission5 where they served 500 villages in both India and Pakistan in 5 days as act of patriotism. #Huge Salute
We should all appreciate their efforts and try to do our part to bring a change.
Robin Hood Army says they were able to reach only 1% of the hungry and poor… Come let’s join our hands and make it 100%.
Trust me the happiness in serving the hungry is something which we cannot put into words. Our souls will be blessed.
Habiba Zaheer 