On April 25th, we were able to do 5th distribution!  We were able to do this is because of the enormous support and the amazing people we have connected with. the distribution today was for the people who were recommended by our Sunshine children. 
The people who have come together to ensure that people around do not go hungry are:
Dr. Tripathi, OSD Noida Authority, Sanjay 24 Mantra (distributed over 100 sets for Sunshine Children), Ravi Kumar from Setu Foundation (60  amazing sets), Ajay and other residents of Mahagun Maple(25 sets), Abha, Abhishek, Ajay Chaturvedi, Akansha, Akhilesh Agarwal, Amit Kumar Singh, Amrinder Singh, Anushree, Archana Sharma, Ashok Parashar, Balajee Venkatesh, Daisy, Deepti Kaur, Dr S N Sharan, Gurpreet, Harpreet, Hemant Ahuja, Kanchan Ji, Kiran, Kshitij Tayal, Maneesh Kumar Parnami, Manisha Handa, Manjari Agnihotri, Meenakshi Tyagi, Meera Kaushiva, Mahendra Singh, Mohini Grover, Nandita Ahuja, Neha Kaushik, Nidhi Narang, Nirmal Mohanty, Pamita Walia, Peeyush Srivastava, Pragya, Pushpa Gupta, Rajeev Bhalla, Rajesh Nayyar, Rashmi Gaur, Reeta Aneja, Ritudeep, Sandeep Ahuja, Shantini, Sheetal Buddhiraja, Shikha Sinha, Shilpa Gupta, Shrish Agrahar, Sunil Agarwal, Sunil Arora, Surabhi, Suruchi Sharan, Sushama, Vidya Akkireddy and Vini Agarwal.
​Your support gives us encouragement to ensure that the ration sets reach where they are most required. 

Sunshine society with the help of Setu foundation distributed 60 big Ration kits to the families of Sunshine Society children staying in village Hoshiyarpur.
The kit contained the following:

Rice   - 10 Kg
Atta  -  10 Kg
Sugar - 1 Kg
Salt    - 1 Pkt
Dalia - 1 Pkt
Chole - 2 Kg
Dal    - 1 Kg
Cooking Oil - 1 Lt.
Masale  - 2 Pkts
Sanitary napkin  - 1 Pkts 
Onion - 3 Kg
Potato - 3 Kg
​Soap - 1 bar
Face mask - 1

The kit is very comprehensive and will surely bring relief to the families who are dependant on daily income and are finding it very difficult to make the ends meet in this time of lockdown.
The distribution was done keeping social distancing and all other relevant precautions in mind.Everyone was asked to wear face masks and carry their own bags to reduce plastic waste.
It was a respite to see another 60 families going back with enough food and a sigh of relief.

​When the children we support start thinking about their neighbours and people in distress, then we know that we are forming a good chain.
When Noida Authority and 24 Mantra distributed ration to our children, we got a lot of thank you messages. Along with the messages came pleas saying that their neighbours do not have anything to eat and if we could do something for them.
We were touched and happy that our efforts to educate them are bearing fruit. Over the years, we have realised that whenever we ask for funds to carry out work during difficult times, there are scores of people who come forward to help and most of the times we overflow with help.
This time was no different. Within 24 hours of circulating our message for help, we received an overwhelming support and we collected approximately ₹1,18,000.
We distributed 147 sets today in village Barola. There are a few referred families which we couldn’t reach and will do so in the coming days.
Many thanks to Vinod Agarwal, Pankaj Jha, Police team of sector 49 and to all our contributors and well-wishers.  
Let’s form our good chain bigger and let’s pledge to continue to educate…

Sunshine Society’s children’s families had started feeling the pinch of lockdown. With no money and hence no ration, the parents, mostly daily wagers were worried at the start of the month for not having any money or possibility of any further earnings. The way people came forward to offer help by way of cash/financial was incredible. Our main issue was to honour the lockdown and ensure that the distance was maintained. After the Noida Authority, came help from Sresta Organics, which comes as a brand name 24 Mantra, who without blinking, promised help of as many packets as needed. We shared the remaining children list with them and the ration reached the children!
Their thank you messages are heart melting.

As soon as the the April month started, our children started calling us with problems of no food at home. There were many of them with parents working as mason, painter, carpenter or daily wagers. Some parents working in Delhi could not go to collect their wages and some could not collect in Noida. Some children don’t have whatsapp facility so Paytm and any other digital platform is not a possibility.  Parents themselves in most cases illiterate.
We so wanted to distribute the ration but also did not want to jeopardise the current isolation/lockdown.
We contacted the OSD Dr. Avinash Tripathi and shared with him the list of our children along with their phone numbers and then we waited. Nothing happened the next day but today(which is the day after) I have been continuously getting calls from our children thanking us for the ration they received!
The Noida Authority and specially the OSD Dr. Tripathi’s team, systematically called up our children and handed them each a bag of ration containing Atta, Rice, Kale Chane, Arhar dal, Sugar, Salt, 4 pkts of masala, oil and a soap bar.
We are so thankful to the team for providing relief to our children in these tough times. As I understand, the team is working tirelessly to provide food packets, and ration to those in need.
Sunshine Society salutes this team and pledge any kind of assistance that they may need.