Cooked food is distributed to the needy by Food Ninjas or volunteers

Khaana Chahiye involves a network of kitchens with unused capacity. Co-founders Neeti Goyal and Pranav Rungta, who are restaurateurs, spoke to several restaurant kitchens, which provide food at minimal cost to the organisation.

Cooked food is thereafter distributed to the needy by Food Ninjas or volunteers. “To bring the cost down, we bought pulses and rice from Sangli and sourced vegetables from farmers directly. We faced several challenges in the meantime as well. Sanitisation, for example. Also, we constantly motivate the staff, who stay in the restaurant. They cannot travel home and feel upset at times. But they really cooperated with us,” Neeti Goyal said. She owns five restaurants in Mumbai and their kitchens have been put to use for the Khaana Chahiye initiative as well.