Since March this year, access to food for low-income communities in certain pockets of the city has become a tad easier. This is courtesy of six mobile food banks that were set up in the slums of Ejipura, an orphanage and old age home in KR Market, Gandhinagar, and at the HSIS Gosha Maternity Hospital. “Our mission is to have 300 mobile food banks each serving 250+ meals a day,” says Kartik Krishnamoorthy, Lead Programme Manager at Atria Foundation (the philanthropic arm of Atria Group) that is behind the project.
The Love All Programme, he says, is an integral part of the No One Goes Hungry - Bengaluru initiative, launched in March, dedicated to the late Chinnaswamy Raju, the founding Chairman of Atria Group. Kartik says Chinnaswamy, with his brother Kuppu Raju, hail from humble backgrounds and were once migrant labourers. During the pandemic, the duo, with their network of friends and family, “rallied together to distribute food to nearly 1.
5 to 2 lakh families. Initially, meals were prepared and packed at the Atria Radisson Blu Hotel and distributed across Bengaluru. Meals are primarily served for lunch, from 12.
30 pm to 2 pm, every day| Photo Credit:Special Arrangement However, as the demand grew, a more structured process was implemented,” says Kartik, adding that they went on to collaborate with Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) across Bengaluru. “The RWAs supplied aluminum covers and sealing machines, and requested residents to cook extra food, pack it, and.