Community Kitchen

Chandanki village in Gujarat has an interesting culinary model!

In Kerala, a collective named Nanma Maram, or the tree of goodness, started as a community kitchen, but today works to empower the poor with education, jobs, palliative care, affordable healthcare, and more.

Thousands of members of the trans community working with NGO Khwaish Foundation have begun a heartfelt endeavour to feed the hungry and poor at a Mumbai railway station for a nominal price of Re 1.

Chennai-based Ashwanth Kumar provides free meals to the underprivileged under his Pankajam charity, inspired by the kindness he'd observed in his late grandmother.

Delhi University students Jasdeep Kaur and Ishan Joshi opened their own community kitchen to feed stray animals across the city. Here’s a look at their endeavour Pawriwar.

Golden Heart Foundation in Pune came into being because of seven friends who started two community kitchens and skill development centres to help marginalised women.

The workers are usually forced to buy kerosene from the black market at exorbitant rates. Other fuels such as wood are also quite costly.

Meet the Silver Social Workers of Pune. From helping local women earn a living to maintaining a clean and green city, they do it all. Chandana Banerjee meets them.

In a mission to reduce chemical consumption, the Golden Temple's community kitchen has now adopted organic farming, by using natural fertilisers.

The wonderful tradition of village women gathering around a common oven to make rotis may have become a thing of the past in that state. But the 'sanjha chulha' (community kitchen) has been rekindled in the villages of the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, albeit with a small modification. Keeping up with the changing times, instead of the earthen oven, it is the sanjha gas that the Shekhawati women are sharing today. There are many advantages of a sanjha gas facility.