According to the organisation that’s the advantage to anyone having extra food especially at night and their motive is to save food from being thrown out into the garbage
On Monday the organisation installed a fridge at Mapusa Police Station with the Inspector Mr Neenad Deulkar giving them full support while on Wed 23rd they installed another fridge at Calangute Police Station with the special attendance of SDPO Porvorim , Dysp Vishwesh Karpe who did the honours of inaugurating the fridge in the presence of Calangute PI : Mr Laxi Amonkar Saligao PI : Mr Tukaram Chavan
“We plan to install in total 15 such fridges in various Police stations across Goa” Donald said fernandes.
If in each Police station fridge we can get daily just 10kgs of food, we save in a month per Police station 300kgs of food being thrown out” fernandes further said giving a calculation
So see this calculation :
15 fridges * 30 days * 10kgs = 4500 kgs
Now per month 4500 kgs *12 months = 54000 kg
Now that’s alot of saving of wet garbage.
Also 1kg food is enough to feed 3 meals.
Multiply :
4500 kgs * 3 meals = 13500 meals / month
54000 kgs & 3 meals = 162000 meals/ year .
This is what food banks are about .
Take our shelter homes :
Today 100 inmates * 3 meals * 30 days = 9000 meals a month.
9000 meals * 12 months = 108000 meals
So these 15 Police station can easily support our current strength of homeless people daily
This is just one sector of getting food into our homes without any stress and tension.
Shelter homes issues are food, as that costs more than 50% of all other costs.
With future plan for additional homes for homeless street people being worked out and with our numbers being any away between 400 to 500 people rehabilitated through our NGO, incoming food is a must”fernandes further said .
According to the organisation In short, food bank programs can get daily 500 to 700 kgs of assured food through which they will look after many many more homeless and sick people including children
The organisation has urged the people to please create a habit of saving food and giving to us in our food bank fridges which within the next 10 days will be across Goa .
15 in Police Stations
2 at petrol pumps
2 in personal homes
1 at Sangolda on the chogm road.
“We all need to work together for the upliftment and welfare of the poor , hungry , homeless and people with disabilities”he further said
Besides with summer approaching , these fridges can also double up to store bottled water for the police personel as food is not going to be coming all the time throughout the day” Fernandes further said
The organisation also plans to install another fridge at Cuncolim Police station which will be managed by our initial volunteer last 4 years from Velim Mrs Elaine .
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