Empty Plates, Empty Fields — Hunger in Rural India

🌾 Empty Plates, Empty Fields — Hunger in Rural India

In India’s far-off villages, behind the lush green postcards and festival songs, lies a harsh reality: millions of rural families go to sleep hungry every night. Despite being the backbone of our agricultural economy, farmers and laborers in these regions often lack the very food they help grow. 🍚

“They grow the food we eat. But they don’t get to eat what they grow.”

📉 Why Are Rural Families Starving?

• 🌧️ Droughts, floods, and crop failures
• 💸 Lack of minimum wage or land ownership
• 🚫 No access to ration cards or government schemes
• 🏥 Malnutrition, especially among children and mothers

Entire villages survive on salt and rice water. Children drop out of school because they’re too weak to walk. The cycle of poverty is deep-rooted and generational.

📊 Rural Hunger in Numbers

• 🍽️ 74 million people in India suffer from extreme hunger, most of them in rural areas
• 🧒 33% of rural children under age 5 are underweight
• 🥀 Many households report eating just one meal a day — and sometimes none

🧡 Rishi Foundation’s Jeevan Kit: Ration for 2,500 Rural Families

We’re distributing essential ration kits — called “Jeevan Kits” — to families living in forgotten corners of rural India:

• 🍚 5kg rice, 2kg dal, oil, atta, salt & basic spices
• 🧼 Soap and basic sanitary products
• 🚚 Delivered through ground volunteers village-by-village
• 💛 Personalized interaction — no queue, no humiliation

💰 Your Small Help Can Feed a Family

• ₹350 = One full ration kit for a family of 4
• ₹1,500 = Feed 5 families for an entire week
• ₹5,000 = Ration for an entire hamlet cluster

All donations are 50% tax exempt under Section 80G (Form 10AC verified).

They work the fields so we can eat. Now it’s our turn to sow kindness in their lives.