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Tag: Food for all

  • Rincon is now a teenager…..

    “God sent children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish” was one of the writings that caught my attention during our visit to St. Joseph’s home as part of sharing our joy of completing 13 yrs of a journey called Team Rincon. This could be one of the reasons that Team Rincon again decided to spend sometime with under privileged children who need support and love like we did for our 12th year celebrations last year. This year we decided to sponsored lunch at two places – Shree Barbhaya Orphanage For Hindu Girls at Vile Parle and St. Joseph Society at Mumbay Central. The whole team decided to visit St Joseph’s to spend some time with the children there and plan to visit the Vile Parle orphanage sometime soon. We were all greeted and taken through the place by the two sisters and explained the routines and various activities of the children there. We also had a peek at the children’s creche as the little tots were sleeping. What I felt was that this was not a foster care centre but a true home to the children there. We were really touched by the care taken to all the inmates from the age group of 0 to 90. After spending some time there, we all proceeded to ‘Golden Star” a good and pure vegetarian Gujarati cum Rajasthani thali joint for lunch. As usual we all relished the various delicacies even if sweet and went back home with a mixed feeling of joy, gratitude and peace.

    Contributed by Ashish Baby

  • Khichdi Party at 93.5 Red FM


    Today was the most memorable day for Manish and me. In one of our previous blogs, I had mentioned about the mid day meal project for children from Municipal and government aided schools funded by ISKCON. Red FM had in the past 3 weeks or so been promoting it on air and had collected INR 1.5 million with an expectation of INR 2 million. Today they were hosting the midday meal (Khichdi party) at their office at Lower Parel and Malishka from Red FM had invited us to join her as one of the donors.
    We reached there at 11.30 am and there was an air of festivity in the office. The children (around 20) were all sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the chief guest, Vivek Oberoi. As usual the celebrities never turn up on time. This gave us an opportunity to mingle with the children and few adults who had also donated for this worthy cause. To our surprise the children were smart and well dressed and more importantly they were able to converse in English without being embarrassed.

    The staff of ISKCON including the Director was also present and the children were discussing posers for the celebrity.
    Meanwhile we got talking to the staff from ISKCON and wanted to know whether these kids really deserved all this. She introduced us to the Principal of the school who told us that before they started this mid day meal the children used to come to school at 7 am and go at 1 pm without any food. Sometimes the children would not come or would not be able to concentrate because of the hunger. She would then buy vada pav and give the children. Fortunately for her she came to know about ISKCON through one of her contacts and was able to get her school enrolled for the programme. This has been going on for the past 1 year and there has been a marked improvement in the attendance and the ability of the child to grasp the knowledge imparted. This was also evident from the level of English they spoke. We also learnt about the challenges the Principal of the school faced in terms of infrastructure needs. They had few rooms for the 400+students and so the moment the next batch came, the class had to be vacated to accommodate the new batch. Then the usual challenge of books, uniforms etc.
    As soon as the celebrity interview got over, the children came over to display the autograph they got. Some children had it autographed on their arms as well. The most touching moment was when they asked us to give our autographs. This feeling cannot be expressed in words.

    All in all it was an experience that taught us more than what we could teach the children. They had simple pleasures in life and were making their best attempts to learn and show their skills too. Led us to believe that given an opportunity, these little minds can be channelized for the betterment of India.
    Contributed by Kiran Rao

  • Rincon supports ISKCON’s initiative

    As per an NGO report, 47% of children under the age of 6 are malnourished. It also states that India ranks below countries like Bangladesh and Nepal on the state of hunger. This tells a lot about India being a developing nation.

    ISKCON has taken the initiative to correct this anomaly. Since 1995, ISKCON has with the help of Government aid is providing midday meals to all the municipal and government aided primary schools in and around Mumbai.

    Fortunately I came to know about this through my wife. All you need to feed one child a meal for a year is just Rs. 700.00. Imagine the small amount – It is less than what we spend at a restaurant for ONE meal for two at an average Mumbai restaurant and here we had an opportunity to sponsor a child for an entire year in that amount. I decided to contribute and make life easier for these children in whatever little way I could. I called up the Project Manager of ISCKON, Mr. Harish Desai and told him of my interest in the project. Meanwhile Manish had also heard about this program on FM and shared the details with me. He too showed interest in it.

    Mr. Harish Desai came to our office and explained about the project and the scope of work being done. He also wanted us to visit the kitchens where the food is hygienically prepared. Just imagine how much we spend on useless things when the same can be better utilised and make India a truly developing nation. What a coincidence that today happens to be Children’s day.
    Having donated you also get an opportunity to go there, serve the children and have food with them on a special occasion like your birthday or wedding anniversary. This is truly for a good cause and we would urge all to do your bit for the society at large.

    As part of Team Rincon, Manish and I are already donating and Rincon as an organisation is also sponsoring students. I am sure a lot of other team members will also come forward for this noble cause.
    Contributed by Kiran Rao