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Mumbaikars go the extra mile to ensure no one goes hungry

Individuals and organisations continue to do their bit by distributing food and water to the homeless, beggars, daily wagers, cops and BMC workers

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Waseem Ahmed Shaikh, a businessman from Chembur, offers food to a cop on Thursday. Pics/ Pradeep Dhivar

Waseem Ahmed Shaikh, a businessman from Chembur, offers food to a cop on Thursday. Pics/ Pradeep Dhivar

With the lockdown in place and no jobs to earn their livelihood, the poor and homeless in the city have found hope in the good samaritans who are ensuring that no one sleeps hungry while the country fights the deadly Coronavirus.

Help for the needy — homeless people, beggars, daily wagers — is pouring in from all corners of the city; not just organisations, individuals, too, are going the extra mile to keep their fellow citizens fed. One among them is a businessman from Chembur, Waseem Ahmed Shaikh, who loads his four-wheeler with biscuits, bananas and water bottles, and drives till Bandra distributing them to the needy, twice a day.

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