How did the “Food for People” initiative come to life?
In a tribal area in northeastern India, we have a facility called “Food For People,” which provides 100,000 hot nutritious meals and clean drinking water to villagers each year. A few years ago when Prem Rawat flew into that area, he saw that the children were surviving by eating bugs and grasshoppers. He envisioned a permanent facility, where children and adults in need would get nutritious hot meals of their liking and would actively be involved in running the facility. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the first meal was served to the children, and their eyes grew big when they saw the delicious food. My plate of food was too large for me, but not for the five-year-old I offered it to. In no time, the plate was clean!
