It is interesting to find a major portion of people around the world are struggling to win a day’s bread despite of abundant resources that can fill millions of empty stomachs. Telangana is no less in terms of the starving underprivileged section. Hare Krishna Charities began its rescue operation to sever the needy with the food that they deserve. A registered trust under the Hare Krishna Mission Charitable Foundation, Hare Krishna Charities consists of operations that are spread all across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
The organisation has been serving about 11 crore meals and counting benefitting lakhs of the people. The charity is functioning for the past nine years by state-of-the-art centralized community kitchens. In addition, it supports online donation from all those who wish to share their contribution to the organisation.
The organisation has introduced various programs, such as Bhojana Amritam, Annapurna, Saddimoota, and Swasthya Ahara, which feed approximately 65000 meals each day.
Its mission is to serve the maximum amount of meals like 250000 meals every day, focusing on assisting the nutritious breakfast in the Government Schools by the Swasthya Ahara Programme. There are various meal programmes offering assist to the underprivileged and seek online donation in India for support of such programs but, Hare Krishna Charities is one of a kind mission that strives to offer quality and nutritious meals to the people.
Hare Krishna Charities organizations have created various programs like Bhojana Amritam, Annapurna, Saddimoota, and Swasthya Ahara, which can feed approximately 65000 meals each day. The mission of the Hare Krishna Charities is to feed about 250000 meals each day using the particular focus.
The main aim of the Hare Krishna Charities is to provide a healthy breakfast in all the Government Schools with the help of the Swasthya Ahara Programme. Acting as a saviour to the starved, The organisation aims to provide food to every person. It is their main objective that no one within a ten-mile radius of the centre should be hungry.
Ensuring nutritional, healthy and free food for poor has always been a challenge and Hare Krishna Charities have made this a reality with a state of the art hi tech kitchens that offers an uninterrupted support to fulfil their vision.
Hare Krishna Charities, considered as the most humble charitable trust in Telangana initiated its quest with Bhojana Amritam, a free food programme for all the underprivileged in-patient attenders and distressed workers at government and trust owned hospitals. The pilot project was conceptualised at the Indo American Cancer Hospital located in Hyderabad dated 1st November 2011.
This activity was started under the entity Hare Krishna Movement Charitable Foundation.
Later, in May 2012, collaborating with Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited, extended various food donations programmes in India. The very first partnership with MEIL had the objective to expand the service of the Bhojana Amritam program to various other hospitals.The success of this partnership made the programme possible to reach upto a hike upto 17 hospitals in the later years.
2014 marked the year of gratitude, Hare Krishna Charities decided to extend its meal programmes to our hardworking annadatas. The initiation of a meal centre at Bowenpally Market Yard, which serves more than 150 meals per day, Saddimoota serves hot hygienic meals everyday to all the farmers who visit the market yards at cities from smaller towns and villages far and wide to sell their proceeds.
Saddimoota is a programme that praises the hard work and is made to gratitude towards the food givers. The subsidised meal programme offer Rs 10 meals which benefits the farmers and the Hamalis at 4 different market yards in Hyderabad
Further, there was an expansion of the programmes, which paved way to popular Annapurna canteen in association with the GHMC satisfying the huger needs of the poor in all walks of life. Sri. Somesh Kumar, who was GHMC Commissioner, created this Humble initiative to feed street vendors, drivers, underprivileged students, and anyone who extended hands to fill their stomach.
Annapurna canteen serves lakhs of meals everyday, with more than 150 plus kiosk and mobile canteens within the jurisdiction of Hyderabad alone. The programmes allows services of both lunch and dinner. With different items in the menu each time ensures a balanced diet and integrity of food at subsidised prices to all the beneficiaries.
With a dynamic economy comes a need to address new challenges actively. The most vulnerable section of the underprivileged, children are exposed to untimely conditions with lack of proper nurturing and care. A child’s nutrition starts from a healthy breakfast, A breakfast that’s rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals aids in healthy mental and physical development of the child.
It was witnessed that children of the poor community often lacks access to a healthy eating due to the bread winning commitments of the adults. Most of the poor children we see in the government schools today come with the only for the motive of being blessed with the mid-day meal programmes offered by the schools.
Swasthya Ahara is a free breakfast program concentrated on giving hot and very healthy breakfast to all the underprivileged children of the various Government Schools. It provides access to nutritious millet based food that goes beyond just offering a nutritional breakfast
During the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, Hare Krishna Charities served approximately 1.7 lakh meals each day all across the state of Telangana; this was at the COVID-19 crisis. It had a major role in Free food distribution. Hare Krishna charities ensured all the meals were offered to the beneficiaries such as migrants, workers and the homeless for free.
The simultaneous attack from the nature in the form of floods in Hyderabad at the same time, enhanced the occasion of panic. Hare Krishna Charities as always voluteered with the government and assisted in distributing around dry rations kits to all the victims as a part of flood relief activities in Hyderabad. Check out our online donation site for adequate support details.
With the help of the adequate return to the schools and work, post-pandemic, it is significant to nurture the children, help the needy and all the underprivileged people by the balanced food. For this, a helping hand is needed to widen the horizon and enhance a sustainable future.
If you wish to contribute to society, then donation is the best method. The donations to Hare Krishna Charities can be made by the Direct Bank Transfer, Debit/ Credit Cards, NEFT, UPI wallets, and various other online payments methods. Get to know about the various schemes under the organisation. We have also made our fundraising website easy to our donors for receiving adequate information.
Spread the love to the people and ensure they are not hungry!