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How we work - An Overview of Our Approach

At the heart of our mission is a simple yet powerful idea: provide for today, prepare for tomorrow. Our work is rooted in compassion, driven by data, and shaped by the communities we serve. Here’s how we turn our vision into action:

1. It Starts with a Meal

We provide nutrient-rich, dry packaged meals to individuals and families facing hunger. Our approach is tailored to the context:

Urban Areas: Meals are packaged through corporate and community volunteering events. We partner with schools, orphanages, elderly care homes, hospitals, and health centers treating patients recovering from TB, cancer, and HIV/AIDS where cooked meals are served to the recipients, (except in some rare cases where dry packets are offered)

Rural Areas: Through our field units and village volunteers, meals serve as a critical safety net for vulnerable groups—elderly persons, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and families without breadwinners.

We also support community-led development through our Meals4Development program, where meals are provided to households contributing labor to build shared community assets.

2. Direct Implementation for Lasting Impact

Since 2021, we’ve shifted from working through partner NGOs to directly implementing programs in rural communities. This strategic move allows us to:

Commit long-term to each community’s journey toward food security
Align all efforts under a unified mission: Hunger-Free Communities

Our work is guided by the Hunger-Free Village Charter, which integrates five key domains: Food Security, Health & WASH, Nutrition, Livelihood, and Resilience. Communities track their progress through 12 charter statements and 17 measurable indicators.

3. Data-Driven, Community-Centered Interventions

We begin by establishing a household-level food security baseline. Based on this, we co-design interventions to improve each family’s score. Our tracking and reporting system ensures we monitor progress annually and adapt our strategies as needed.  Other than the family level tracking of progress, we also measure project specific outcomes through regular monitoring and measurement.

For example, for the maternal and child nutrition project that we are running in 64 communities, regular measurement of height/weight, BMI (body mass index) & Hemoglobin is conducted for mothers and children, and immediate action initiated in case of anomalies. Similarly, for life skill education project, there is a scoring system to track progress of each participant.

4. Building Inclusive Local Leadership

Community Empowerment

We believe sustainable change comes from within. That’s why we invest in:

Identifying and nurturing local leaders, especially those from marginalized groups
Forming community collectives that can identify issues, develop solutions, and engage with government systems
Accompanying these groups as they grow in confidence, skills, and agency

5. Strengthening Resilience to Climate Risks

Our field teams guide communities through a six-step process to design local resilience plans. These plans address climate-related challenges that threaten food and livelihood security—ensuring our interventions are future-proof and community-owned.

Farmers and rural producers learn from experts about climate adaptive practices and take measures that range from rom soil and water conservation to forest protection, seed preservation, technology enabled crop diversification and similar practices.

6. Focused Nutrition Interventions

We target two critical “windows of opportunity”:

First 1,000 Days: Pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children under 2 receive cooked meals, health education, regular monitoring, and support for safe deliveries through our Community Kitchen Centers.

Adolescents: We deliver nutrition-themed life skills and leadership education through peer-led modules, empowering youth to make informed choices and become change agents in their communities.

7. Responding to Emergencies With Compassion and Continuity

In times of crisis—natural disasters, pandemics, conflicts or local emergencieswe step in with immediate relief and stay through the recovery and rehabilitation phases. Working closely with partners, we provide:

Emergency food kits and essentials such as water, medicine, temporary shelters
Family support kits with household items to restart life after displacement or loss
Long-term assistance for livelihood restoration

8. Building Champions for a Hunger-Free Future

We believe that everyone can be part of the solution. Through our volunteering programs, nutrition education, and awareness campaigns, we empower individuals to become champions of change.

A key initiative is our Nutrition Education Module for students (Grades 6–10), which encourages:

– Mindful eating habits
– Awareness of ultra-processed, high-fat, high-calorie foods
– Conscious food choices that support personal health and planetary well-being

By nurturing conscious consumers, we’re planting the seeds of a healthier, more sustainable future.

Our Impact

70,000

Volunteers from different walks of life have joined our movement as volunteers and hunger warriors

35 million

Micronutrient enriched meals packaged and served

3.5 million

Lives impacted between 2015 and 2025

335

NGO partners joined hands with Rise Against Hunger India

100 Plus

Corporate and CSR partners who have supported our hunger relief, food security and nutrition projects


Our Impact

70,000

Volunteers from different walks of life have joined our movement as volunteers and hunger warriors

35 million

Micronutrient enriched meals packaged and served

3.5 million

Lives impacted between 2015 and 2025

335

NGO partners joined hands with Rise Against Hunger India

100 Plus

Corporate and CSR partners who have supported our hunger relief, food security and nutrition projects


The harsh reality is despite high level of food production that can easily feed more than the world’s current population, there is a surge in the number of undernourished and food deprived people.  Experts suggest that this surge is due to climate change issues, persistent conflicts and growing economic distress at a large scale that affect those at the bottom.  Our efforts are aimed at improving community resilience at the grassroots to help them achieve nutrition security.  For those who have the access and capacity to get food, our main aim is to educate them to make healthy food choices and help others in any way they can.