A Bite Of Goodness

Housing associations are setting up community refrigerators to reduce food wastage and feed the needy

- Meenakshisushma

WHEN A hungry taxi driver pulls over and enquires from our apartment’s security guard about eateries in the middle of the night, he is redirected to a refrigerator installed near the main gate. And to the driver’s surprise, he is treated to a sumptuous home-cooked meal,” says Rahul Khera, a resident of Gurugram’s Suncity Apartments, who takes pride in bringing the community refrigerator concept to Delhi in 2017. He says the concept is simple. Just install a refrigerator where people from a community can store their excess food and anybody hungry can eat from it for free. And it is catching up. “I know there are already four more. There are two in Gurugram at Fresco and CHD Avenue, one in Noida’s ats Green Village and one in New Friends Colony,” says Khera.

In June 2018, Radio City, along with Mother Dairy, set up refrigerators in four locations in Delhi and the National Capital Region—Maple Heights and Maple Crescent in Gurugram, Rajat Vihar in Noida, and Atulya Apartments and Aravali Apartments in Delhi. “We ran a campaign for 15 days after which we gave the refrigerator to the respective resident welfare associations (RWAs) free of cost. The societies are located in highly populated areas,” says Shubhra Bhramar of Radio City.