A True Calling: Serving The Hungry

May 05, 2020, 5 comments, 8 smiles Magic and miracles often emerge from just listening to what our heart is saying to us. And when we learn to tune out the cacophony of sounds that often take over our everyday lives, our heart has a way of opening up our world, bringing into it laughter, joy and boundless love. That is what Y.S Pavithra, the founder of Bangalore-based social enterprise Vindhya E-Infomedia discovered over the course of the last month when she and a handful of volunteers from Vindhya ran a community kitchen to feed hundreds of those hit the hardest by the countrywide lockdown due to the Covid pandemic. Pavithra, whose innovative social enterprise, Vindhya, employs around 1,500 people with disability (PWD) first realised the magnitude of the suffering that migrant labor, daily wage workers and other under-privileged segments of the population were undergoing when Vindhya set up a call centre for the Karnataka government’s Hunger Helpline, ... Read Full Story