Contributing food is, in its essence, is the most fundamental initiative a person or an entity can make when it comes to ones social responsibility. It does not matter which human sociological construct you believe in or categorize yourself as. If you can be defined as a complex biological process residing in a habitable environment, you will need to receive some form of external energy for that process to sustainably continue. For us humans, it is through food, which is essentially a mixture of microscopic elements and compounds that our bodies need to continue functioning, such as converting the received energy from the food into glucose and absorbing the minerals into the system for the critical processes to continue optimally. When food holds so much significance in terms of our survival, one would naturally expect everyone to have a sufficient form of access to it in a modernized human society, but we all know that to not be the case. 

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Every social construct that thrives on complexity inevitably produces a certain degree of outliers who bear the consequences of the society’s inability to sustain its own growth, may it be through crime, unemployment, lack of healthcare, lack of access to clean water and sanitation, or malnutrition. When you realize that a country like ours has been growing uncontrollably for almost a century without any real sense of boundaries and regulation, the fact that we possess all those problems mentioned above should no longer come as a surprise. However, starvation and malnutrition can be understood to be one of the most abundant issues we have been facing, considering that it is the one problem it inevitably comes down to for all of us, irrespective of how well-off or privileged we may perceive ourselves to be. When you are completely deprived of financial security and support, hunger is the first thing you fundamentally worry about, as is within the evolutionary nature and instinct of every human being. 

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The purpose of every NGO in any given country is to undermine society’s dependence on the government for the continuation of its survival and growth. It is essentially the philosophy that when the government falters in providing for it’s people, the society has a first line of defence to rely on for its sustenance, which is a belief that keeps the whole country from turning into something like the wild west where everyone is in it for themselves. By feeding over 1700 people in the region of Delhi (NCR), Awaaz has been contributing to ensure the continuity of some sense of social order in an environment full of uncertainty and unfathomable misery. We aim to feed as many people as we can with the resources that we have, and that process is going to continue until the day comes when we build a world for ourselves where worrying about your next meal becomes a thing of the distant past and forms into being understood as a dead circumstance that gets dragged down into merely being a story for children’s history books. That day is far, but with every step we take, it comes closer than it has ever been.