Anupria pitches for micro steps to battle hunger crisis amid the pandemic
Anupria Goenka is Leading by example, actor doing her bit through a food distribution drive
Among several other setbacks, the ongoing pandemic is also fuelling the hunger crisis and actor Anupria Goenka is doing her bit to manage it at the micro level by helping in the mass kitchen and food distribution drive.
“This time, I kept wondering as to what must be happening to people on the streets. When we’re unable to look for an oxygen cylinder, a hospital bed or injections, I can’t even imagine what must be happening to them,” Goenka tells us.
That pushed her to unite with her friends and form a small group to provide fresh meals to the people struggling on the streets of Mumbai. “My friend Nakul Sahdev (actor) started it, and another friend also joined, and then I saw how easy it was. I realised rather than always looking for doing things on a bigger scale, if each one of us does things at a micro level, things will change a lot,” she shares.
Goenka, 34, reveals that though a lot of people from the society came forward to help, the worsening situation on the ground makes it all fall short. “When we take 50 packets of food, they fall less. And when we take 100 or 200 packets, they still fall less. During this crisis so many people don’t have ways to earn and survive,” she notes, hoping for some help from the system too.
“I hope the government starts doing something in terms of making ways wherein money or support reach these people directly. And apart from waiting for the government to take all the burden, I feel each one of us should start working at a micro level,” she says, recbuster ommending capable individuals to form small groups to help the needy. “If four or five people get together, and start cooking on a regular basis, one can feed at least 20-30 people. Can you imagine how much of a help would that be?” she suggests, further explaining, “If residential societies start using the open spaces to cook food, and deliver, I’m sure others will join and it’ll help many.”