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Free meals for homeless cut short, officials look for alternatives

Hundreds of homeless people living in homeless shelters in Delhi are now being forced to go hungry after the Akshaya Patra Foundation, the NGO tasked with providing food to these shelters, temporarily discontinued the service citing shortage of funds. Officials of the Delhi government said they would look for alternative arrangements to redress the problem. […]

Hundreds of homeless people living in homeless shelters in Delhi are now being forced to go hungry after the Akshaya Patra Foundation, the NGO tasked with providing food to these shelters, temporarily discontinued the service citing shortage of funds.
Officials of the Delhi government said they would look for alternative arrangements to redress the problem.
Earlier this week, the Akshaya Patra Foundation issued a statement saying it has decided to temporarily discontinue the night shelter feeding initiative being undertaken in association with the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) in the NCT of Delhi.
The foundation said it was undertaking the initiative through its three centralised kitchens in the national capital since July 2021 and that has served more than five million meals till date. These meals were served in the form of a three-item menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to homeless people, including families, senior citizens, widows, individuals battling addiction and those in need of medical care, it said in the statement.
The initiative was discontinued on April 26. Delhi has 197 shelter homes.

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