Anxious patients and their families waiting outside Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital were served meals, while in Delhi, outstation COVID patients with comorbidities like cancer and chronic kidney disease and their accompanying families living on pavements outside or free Dharamshalas adjoining top government hospitals during the second wave’s severe lockdown were provided dry rations to see them through two weeks of their treatment.

In Ahmedabad, ambulance drivers waiting long hours with patients and attendants in never ending queues outside hospitals in the enervating heat of summer during the deadly second wave of the pandemic were served water and food.

Orphanages, Homes for the Elderly, Shelters for the Homeless and for the Mentally Challenged were also were also provided both cooked food and dry rations by volunteers from Kolkata, Mysuru, Chandigarh, Chidambaram, Varanasi, Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Delhi.

In the NCR, volunteers quickly put together a package of vermicelli, milk and sugar, enabling out of job pavement dwellers to light their kitchen fires in the morning with the traditional dish of Sewiyan on Eid.

From Srinagar in Kashmir, to tiny hutments where people lived separated by tin sheets in the middle of densely populated Kollam in Kerala, volunteers supplied dry rations aided and sometimes requested by local authorities.