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THE FOUNDATION · 2020–20261,500 days. We never missed one.
From the first COVID lockdown to Day 1,500 outside Siliguri Medical College: a hot meal, every single day, for four years. The streak is complete. Everything we build now stands on it.
1,500 days, in 84 seconds.
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Four years, one van, and not a single day missed. This is the story the rest of Humrahi is built on.
2020. One person, a van, and a lockdown.
When COVID shut the city down, Lalan Mahato started alone, with no organisation, no funding and no help. Rations and groceries, carried door to door to families who had nothing coming in. It was one person's refusal to let anyone go hungry.
2022. Then we made it daily.
In January 2022 the ration runs became something harder: a hot cooked meal, served every day outside Siliguri Medical College, where families waited beside sick loved ones with nowhere to eat. No forms. No queue that turned anyone away. We told ourselves we wouldn't miss a day.
Families of patients often waited outside the hospital with nowhere to eat and no way to leave a relative's bedside, so hot meals were carried to them there, every single day, for the next four years. Alongside it, we kept up ration and grocery support for households going through a harder stretch, the quieter half of the same instinct.
“A hot meal steadies a day. Everything else we do starts here.”
1,500 days.
Through monsoon and winter, bandhs and festivals, the line was fed. Day 1,500 came in February 2026, and we closed the chapter the way it began: quietly, with the last plates served. Four years. Not one day missed.
How every day worked
Before sunrise
The kitchen started before the city woke.
Cooked fresh
Fresh food, cooked the same morning.
Served, and counted
Served hot, to whoever was in line, and then the counter went up by one.
The photo wall
A slice of the 1,500 days. See many more moments in our media & photo gallery.
Every day, documented.
Every one of the 1,500 days was documented in public: photo, date, day number.
Day 1,501: the branches.
A streak like that changes what an organisation believes it can do. What began as one person with ration bags is now the foundation under everything Humrahi builds:
Waste management
Cleaner streets and waste drives in Siliguri, the city that fed with us.
School adoption
Schools in underserved parts of Siliguri are adopted outright, with resources, programmes and a steady Humrahi presence rather than a one-time visit. See the schools we've adopted →
Healthcare & blood donation camps
Free health camps and blood donation drives bring basic medical care straight to people who'd otherwise have to travel far to see a doctor. See our health camps →
And when a crisis lands outside Bengal, the same ration-packing habit turns towards it, as it did in the 2026 Assam floods, where kits packed through the same Siliguri office reached more than 300 families in Sivasagar.
This is part of work that has reached 700,000+ people across North Bengal. Help us reach more →
The kitchen went quiet on Day 1,500. The work didn't.
Our meal programme operated under FSSAI Reg. No. 22825084000764. Every rupee is tracked. See our transparency reports.
All donations are eligible for tax exemption under Section 80G, and receipts are issued automatically.
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