Instead of selling your newspapers to the raddi-wala, donate them to the Uday Foundation. We sell them to paper manufacturers and the money is used for a Food Donation Drive organized for caregivers of patients battling for their lives in AIIMS, New Delhi.
This food drive is organized twice a week; our van pulls up and feeds about 1,000 people a day, many of them living on the pavements outside AIIMS while they await medical attention. On an average, a plate of food costs Rs 15 which can be earned by selling 1.5 kg of newspapers only - that's about 20 copies of a national newspaper.
To participate, please send your old newspapers to our collection centre:
Uday Foundation
113A/1, Near Rustom restaurant,
Adchini, Sri Aurobindo Marg,
New Delhi - 110017
Phone: 011-26561333/444
udayfoundation.org
(Rahul Verma is the founder of Uday Foundation, a small grassroots non-profit based in New Delhi.)
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This food drive is organized twice a week; our van pulls up and feeds about 1,000 people a day, many of them living on the pavements outside AIIMS while they await medical attention. On an average, a plate of food costs Rs 15 which can be earned by selling 1.5 kg of newspapers only - that's about 20 copies of a national newspaper.
113A/1, Near Rustom restaurant,
Adchini, Sri Aurobindo Marg,
New Delhi - 110017
Phone: 011-26561333/444
udayfoundation.org
(Rahul Verma is the founder of Uday Foundation, a small grassroots non-profit based in New Delhi.)
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