Had a conversation this evening with @[570112285:2048:Saikat].
First, watch this: https://youtu.be/zKJYfXXduoY. It is short and sweet.
His entire team has been pulling 14 hour days. He is working out of the Gurgaon DC office, with the DCP helping him out with permissions etc.
The government has no money. No money for rations, no vehicles or fuel for delivery, no equipment for the volunteers. The entire operation of feeding 25,000 mouths a day is being run in a voluntary manner. RWAs are donating rations through their local shops. For instance, an RWA would tie up with Vishal Mega Mart and send them money for 500kg rice electronically. These guys will go in the morning with a pick-up truck, collect all the material Vishal has for them from different sources. Some rations will be given away as dry rations (10kg packs) to those who can cook. Other rations will go to NGOs who are cooking food. The cooked food is delivered to the majority who are unable to cook.
The vehicles and drivers are voluntary. The cops are pulling favours with everyone to provide vehicles, fuel, rations (this is the kind of hafta vasooli I would totally get behind). The call centre is being run by volunteers, who field calls from hungry people, complaints about food quality, and coordinate pick-ups, drops and NGOs.
@[570112285:2048:Saikat]'s fauji background is helping him. If you choose to volunteer, some of that shine is going to rub off on you, and you will learn how to coordinate during a crisis. There is nothing like a bit of disaster relief on folks' resumes. So please consider volunteering. You do not have to do pick up, delivery, distribution. You simply have to sit in the office and handle the phone, coordinate.
@[100003194439205:2048:Shivam] and @[100008151069370:2048:Javed], and another person from @[100063777711947:2048:Thinvent], will begin volunteering tomorrow. A big thanks to them. And a person called Neha who called out of the blue will start from Tuesday.
https://www.facebook.com/saikat.datta/posts/10157081633042286
First, watch this: https://youtu.be/zKJYfXXduoY. It is short and sweet.
His entire team has been pulling 14 hour days. He is working out of the Gurgaon DC office, with the DCP helping him out with permissions etc.
The government has no money. No money for rations, no vehicles or fuel for delivery, no equipment for the volunteers. The entire operation of feeding 25,000 mouths a day is being run in a voluntary manner. RWAs are donating rations through their local shops. For instance, an RWA would tie up with Vishal Mega Mart and send them money for 500kg rice electronically. These guys will go in the morning with a pick-up truck, collect all the material Vishal has for them from different sources. Some rations will be given away as dry rations (10kg packs) to those who can cook. Other rations will go to NGOs who are cooking food. The cooked food is delivered to the majority who are unable to cook.
The vehicles and drivers are voluntary. The cops are pulling favours with everyone to provide vehicles, fuel, rations (this is the kind of hafta vasooli I would totally get behind). The call centre is being run by volunteers, who field calls from hungry people, complaints about food quality, and coordinate pick-ups, drops and NGOs.
@[570112285:2048:Saikat]'s fauji background is helping him. If you choose to volunteer, some of that shine is going to rub off on you, and you will learn how to coordinate during a crisis. There is nothing like a bit of disaster relief on folks' resumes. So please consider volunteering. You do not have to do pick up, delivery, distribution. You simply have to sit in the office and handle the phone, coordinate.
@[100003194439205:2048:Shivam] and @[100008151069370:2048:Javed], and another person from @[100063777711947:2048:Thinvent], will begin volunteering tomorrow. A big thanks to them. And a person called Neha who called out of the blue will start from Tuesday.
https://www.facebook.com/saikat.datta/posts/10157081633042286