India FoodBanking Network and Aidmatrix Foundation are proud to announce
the establishment of its first FoodBank in India with the creation of the Delhi
FoodBank, operationalised and managed by the Aidmatrix Foundatoin, India
aims to provide sustained access to nutritional food to 2.5 lakh vulnerable
populations through institutional feeding programs. Many private sector
partners have come forward to support this Mission with significant leadership
from DLF Foundation, Reliance Foundation, Cargill, MTS, to name a few. Delhi
FoodBank is presently providing daily sustained feeding to 7000 people in Delhi
NCR. To know more about how to get associated with Delhi FoodBank, please
visit http://www.delhifoodbanking.org/
The impact of the program has already
been felt with various reciepients of the Food programs that receive food
saving over USD 25,000 that would have
been spent on procuring food. The vision
of the FoodBanking projects in India to be Integrated Development Programs is
coming true with the saved monies from the organisations being invested by them
in Health, Education, Livelhoods and other programs that are most needed.
This project promises to deliver food
with increased efficiency, effectiveness, scope and scale of service. More
children and women will be fed incurring fewer costs than is the case today.
Significantly, funds currently consumed by the need to purchase food will be
freed to extend and scale services which are the core function of feeding
programmes.
The first Food Drive Challenge of
India was conducted with over 22 corporations coming forward and running food
drives.
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