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A woman in a yellow dupatta cradles her ration sack in front while volunteers unload the supply truck behind her.SEVA ▪ 2026
RATION DRIVE · FEB 2026

A month of rations,
handed over in a bag.

A dry-ration kit is rice or wheat flour, dal and oil: a daily-wage family's cushion, the reason a missed workday doesn't become a missed meal.

Drive
Project Seva
Where
Delhi-NCR
When
February 2026
What we brought
Ration kits
The stakes, in numbers

In 2022, 55.6% of Indians (about 790 million people) could not afford a healthy diet. Hunger here is an income problem, not a supply one: a healthy diet is among the cheapest in the region, and still out of reach on a daily wage.

Source · FAO SOFI 2024

The truck came in loaded and left empty. Daily-wage households, in the kind of place where a healthy diet costs less than a day's earnings and still doesn't get bought.

Women queued with their kit slips; volunteers worked the sacks down off the bed two at a time, and kept at it until the list ran out.

What went into a kit
  • Rice or wheat flour, whichever the kitchen runs on
  • Dal and cooking oil
  • Salt and sugar where a household needs them
The morning, in frames
Three women holding ration sacks with dal and oil, looking straight into the camera.SEVA ▪ 2026
Three women with their kits, dal and oil visible in the sacks, looking straight into the camera.
Logistics detail: truck bed stacked with ration kit boxes beside the SEVA bannerSEVA ▪ 2026
The supply side of a smile: kit boxes stacked on the truck bed beside the Seva banner.
Elderly man in orange jacket and green turban with a warm smile, holding his ration kit.SEVA ▪ 2026
An elderly man in an orange jacket and green turban, his kit in hand.
Group holding ration kits, direct gazeSEVA ▪ 2026
Kits ready and stacked, rice, dal and oil sealed in for the month.
Why we ran it

Roughly 90% of India's workers are informal: no contract, no paid leave. So a missed day's work can put dinner in doubt. The kit absorbs that shock for a month.

We don't means-test at the truck; we work off lists built with people who know the settlement. It isn't a perfect system. It gets food to the households that need it, on the day, and it's honest about being exactly that.

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