This District Will Soon Be India’s Only Hunger-Free Zone
The Kottayam district has scripted history as it spared no effort in getting the tag of the only hunger-free district in the country. The various voluntary organisations make sure that no one is going hungry in the district while feeding close to 8,000 people in a day.
Nearly 20 voluntary groups are providing food to patients of Medical College Hospital and other government hospitals. Navjeevan Trust itself is feeding as many as 5,000 patients of Medical College Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Kottayam General Hospital, Government Ayurveda Hospital and Government Homoeopathy Hospital.
There are other facilities for the hungry as well including mid-day meals offered by the local Red Cross, besides a hunger-free initiative started in the Pala town (20 km away from Kottayam).
There is also a food box in the Kurshupalli Kavala area, in which locals can deposit food for the homeless and hungry. Meanwhile, a set of locals have started a Facebook group, whereby they offer food to 15 beggars in Changanacherry town three days a week.
More than 100 people come for free lunch at the Pakalveedu (daycare home) at Vayasukarakunnu in the town. Anyone can have food, provided by Red Cross, from the facility between 1 pm and 2 pm. Any voluntary organisation or individual can also become part of the hunger-free project being implemented in Pala, about 20 km from Kottayam town. Food can be deposited in the box kept near Kurushupalli Kavala, and those who are hungry can have food from the box.
A Facebook group is also providing packed food (pothichoru) three days a week at night to 15 beggars in Changanacherry. For the Adivasi community, meanwhile, Manorama has reported that ration shops in their colonies are delivering basic grains mandated by the government on a regular basis.
As for the 241 payment dwellers in Kottayam, there are a whole host of voluntary groups and government agencies offering food to them on a daily basis.
No dearth of food in Adivasi regions
People residing in tribal colonies are a happy lot as they are getting their due share of rice and provisions from ration shops in the district. It is noteworthy that 40 families are dependent on the ration shops near to
the Eruthuapuzah Adivasi colony
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