1.4.2024 7pm IST
♡♡♡ An IAS officer, Sir Sanjit Rodrigues, Secretary of Factories & boilers, Government of Goa, Altinho, Panjim Goa , puts his good intentions into a program where daily 100's if not 1000 kgs of cooked factory food in Goa can be routed to feed the poor and hungry.
Today our NGO implements a project of collecting extra cooked factory food from factories @ Verna Industrial Estate to feed the poor, under our FOOD BANK program which is ONE OF THE ONLY IN INDIA.
At our FOOD BANK program We are blessed to have dynamic pair of government officials who understood hunger & food wastage @ Factory and Boilers department.
This dynamic duo is:
Mr. SANJIT RODRIGUES IAS Secretary &
Mr. ANANT PANGAM, Chief Inspector.
When i put forth hard facts and a fool proof project how to reduce cooked food wastage which I can say is daily a huge qty of may be
3 to 5 tonnes and that too only from Factories across Goa, Sir Sanjit Rodrigues IAS, Secretary, decided to support & implement the same as a service based project and not under any Government project.
With a young dynamic Chief Inspector
Mr Pangam under The Secretary, Mr Pangam put his heart and mind into getting the 10 top most factories in Verna Industrial Estate to support this initiative.
I am sure THIS IS THE 1ST SUCH FOOD PROGRAM ACROSS INDIA where BIG FACTORIES have allowed a FOOD BANK likes ours to INSTALL A FRIDGE & THE BIG FACTORIES are DONATING THEIR Extra cooked food to FEED THE POOR.
It took about 4 to 5 month to get :
☆ Documentation,
☆ Paper work,
☆ Approval from various levels in each of these 10 big factories ,
☆ Etc
And finally today 1.4.2024 , we started this fresh cooked extra factory food collection from :
◇ LUPIN
◇ MARKSONS
◇ IFB
◇ COMMSCOPE
◇ SANOFI
The remaining 5 factories will be starting after another 7 to 10 days.
Once all these 10 factories start donating, we are sure to receive 400 to 500 kgs of food daily.
It's a big big savings to our shelter homes in South Goa as with this food, we can provide meals 1st in our 3 Homes & remaining food will be daily provided to those poor children suffering from HIV & TB in the vicinity of VERNA Industrial Estate.
This project will run the entire year & we are doing our little bit to ease the pain of the hungry, the homeless, the abandoned, the sick.
After all We just celebrated EASTER & besides the messages and wishes ,
” EASTER is all about giving LIFE to others “.
Its a wonderful feeling to have got this project up and running on the very next day after EASTER .
And we pray that more government officials across all departments take a clue from Factories & boilers dept , who are going beyond their call of duty in reaching out to so many daily suffering for want of a meal.
It's always wonderful when Government officials agree to work for the betterment of the society.
To ease the pain and suffering of the poor & needy, each and every government servant needs to understand that one needs to be SINCERE to their position/ job / chair and only then will our STATE & COUNTRY be progressive and all citizens will be happy and not just follow blindly orders which are to please the higher ups.
The man behind the actual implementation of this FOOD BANK program of FACTORIES donating their extra canteen food is Sir ANANT PANGAM who has taken ALOT , I mean ALOT of trouble to put all these 10 big companies into a system which today has seen the implementation come to pass.
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Donald Fernandes
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