For people who live on daily wages, a day without work is a day without food. Lamppost volunteers pool their own money to buy food and carry it to the people who need it most, without asking anyone to line up or hold out a hand.
At A Glance
- Who we serve: rickshaw pullers, porters, van and three-wheeler drivers, domestic workers, widows, people with disabilities, day and farm labourers, tea garden workers
- Where: villages and towns of Pirganj, Thakurgaon and the border tea gardens of Baliadangi
- Cost to families: free of charge
Our Food Programmes
- April 2020, lockdown: volunteers pooled their own money and went door to door in shifts, in the morning, at midday and late at night, handing over two days of food to day labourers who could not work. About 200 families received 6 kg of food each. Read the report
- April 2020, stray dogs: with the markets and restaurants closed, volunteers fed around 70 stray dogs in shifts for seven days straight at the railway station, bus terminal, markets and street corners. Read the report
- October 2022, tea garden workers: at a remote tea garden on the Indian border in Baliadangi, Thakurgaon, 50 tea workers each received a live chicken, four eggs and lentils for a day of nutritious food. Read the report