Lockdown ends, but this Surat bizman’s food mission continues

Surat: While most have already wind up their charity kitchens that fed the poor and needy during the lockdown, this 44-year-old businessman is still been running his kitchen and serving food twice a day.
Jignesh Gandhi has been on the mission for the last 163 days and is unstoppable.
In fact, Gandhi used to serve food to hundreds of people who were left without resources during the lockdown and were even unable to procure anything from outside. Even after the lockdown ended, hundreds of daily wagers are still jobless and hungry. So, Gandhi continued to provide food to some 2,000 people twice a day in the slums.
Gandhi personally visits these slums and distributes food among the daily wagers.
“There are hundreds of people who have nothing to eat and therefore I continue to provide food to those people and I am trying to ensure that they don’t go to sleep hungry,” said Gandhi, who is engaged in textile machinery business in the city.
Gandhi and his friends run a group, named ‘Alliance Club of Surat Hope’ which is actively involved in providing education to more than 5,000 underprivileged children in and around Surat.
Gandhi, a resident of Bhatar area in the city, says that he can understand the pain of the poor and less fortunate as he too faced a lot of struggles in his life.
“The recent floods in Mithi Khadi was a double whammy for the slum dwellers in Limbayat areas as the waters entered their dwelling units. So, these battered labourers and daily wagers need food to survive. I will continue to distribute foods to people as long as I can,” Gandhi added.