Friday 14 February 2014

Mumbai/Belgaum: Moving On

We have completed our last distribution on the Mumbai/Belgaum schedule and set out this morning for Goa, and then had an evening flight to Mumbai. From there, some of us headed for lovely Canada while others are lingering awhile in ever fascinating Mumbai.

Yesterday was a full day for the SCAW team.

We were invited to tour a Krishna Temple and their incredible facility from which they feed over 1 million school children a freshly made lunch, every school day.  They use gravitational levels rather than linear levels to avoid cross contamination of the food.  We saw from the top level the actual food (veg only no meat) in its raw form, to next level down where cooking is done, to ground level where the packing is done for delivery to the schools.

This was really interesting to us as we knew that our bedkit recipients are all fed a meal at school -and this is where that meal comes from.  That would be the child's only meal in many cases.

Just an aside, the child brings his own plate but the Temple is considering supplying plates as sometimes the child's plate is too small for the hearty meal!

We finished the day with final meeting with of Belgaum Rotarians and a hearty meal with this fine group of men.

Team Mumbai/Belgaum
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