Ahmedabad’s ‘Manjuba’s kitchen’ every day’ invites to the slums area people.

KEY POINTS :

• ‘Manjuba’s Kitchen,’ run by a working couple, catches the stomachs of the poor and needy.
•  700 people daily morning and evening free of cost. 
• The son and daughter-in-law made sense of the mother’s motto, ‘No one goes hungry.
• They also offer buttermilk and ice cream as it is summer.

Life is a tribute! Pay homage to my life. Become food for the starving, water for the thirsty; Deendu: Khiya’s tears, never keep distance! Karsandas Manek’s poem is made meaningful by a working couple from Ahmedabad.

In the city of Ahmedabad, everyone would have seen a food truck at a posh food and drink market in a posh area, where people pay for food, while a food truck called ‘Manjuba’s Kitchen’ run by a working couple catches the stomachs of the poor and needy.

 Inspired by the mother’s life and the mother’s motto, the city’s businessman Mayur Kamdar and his wife Pranali Kamdar have started a food truck for the poor in the slum area, which accommodates 700 people daily morning and evening free of cost. The food truck has served 1.25 lakh people in the last six months.

The mother of a Mayur worker who runs an engineering company feeding the starving businessman daily died in 2008.

 Still, as long as her mother, Manjuba, lived, she was from a well-to-do family and used to go to the car every day to feed the poor and needy. Manjuba, the mother of a Mayur worker, used to say that no one should go to bed hungry.

 After Manjuba’s death, his son and daughter-in-law were inspired by his mother to come up with the idea of ​​continuing what his mother was doing.

People tried new ways to get food packets.

The Mayur worker and his wife, system worker company, have 200 employees. The couple is handling their business very well. 

2 years before the lockdown, system workers used to take ready-made food packets to the carts every day and give food packets to the needy people on the way. 

The service had to be shut down after the lockdown. When he started handing out food packets to the people again in a year and a half, it used to happen that people were scrambling to get food packets at places where they were not going to decide in advance.

 The couple then planned to relocate permanent residents according to the new concept. He started looking for people living in the slum area. He started giving out invitations by announcing on loudspeakers and telling people to come for dinner with family and not make dinner at their house.

The next day the food truck arrives, with the system worker always on hand and serving meals in a way that maintains self-respect. Even if a person comes a second time, he is frozen. The entire project is named after Manjuba’s kitchen after the mother of the Mayur worker.

Meals for 900 people, including company employees, are made daily.

In the company of Mayur workers, meals are prepared for 200 people, i.e., meals for 900 people are prepared daily. 

There is a catering team in a bungalow at Vadaj in the city. This team makes meals every day. A group of 3 people is also kept to check the quality and taste of the food after it is made—this team checks and loads the food truck. 

In the area where the food truck is being transported, people get to eat in a disciplined line and go home to eat.

This kitchen serves most of the dishes

that poor people cannot afford to buy on their own. Limited meals and unlimited meals are served to avoid spoilage of meals. When the number of people is high, and the meal is finished, it is made with instant ingredients.

5 young people volunteer to serve in the

kitchen Manjuba’s kitchen has a catering team, including a couple, and five young men working in a corporate company have volunteered to help in this kitchen. 

Those who go in the car invite the next day and stand in the arrangement where the meal is going on. When the couple cannot attend for some reason, the team of 5 young people takes full responsibility for the kitchen.

When I am out, think about when I will serve dinner at 10:30 am: Pranaliben

system worker said in a conversation with Divyabhaskar that I have retained my mother-in-law’s legacy. 

Sometimes when I am out, I look at the clock and think it is 10:30, and I go to the kitchen and serve food. I spend 2-2 hours every morning and evening in this kitchen from my business.

People with disabilities can register on the app and order a meal. From many trusts or temples, the needy are mobilized, which people have to go to the place, sometimes when a waiter reprimands, the feeling of the diner is saddened, and they have to beg for food.

 We have planned separately so as not to face this situation. Everyone here is invited and honored.

 We have also created an application in which some older people living in a designated area and those who cannot go out can register, and if they register, we can give them a meal at home every day. According to my mother’s concept, no one goes to bed hungry.

Source : Divya bhaskar.