ROBIN HOOD ARMY Newsletter #1 October 1, 2015 Distribution Count* How It All Began.. 05-Sept 2907 While it is common knowl- at no cost. bring these benefits to their edge that RHA is based on a own neighbourhoods.” 13-Sep 3377 Hunter targets every single concept quite successful in Learning from this endeavor, scrap of excess food pre- the west, little is known about RHA was started in India in pared in the local neighbor- 20-Sep 4951 the program that inspired the September 2014 in order to hood by going to ca- f o u n d e r s - Re- F o o d . address the paucity of food fes, restaurants and grocery Launched in Lisbon, Portugal and poverty crisis faced by 27-Sep 2923 stores every single day they in 2011 by American- Hunter the sub-continent in general. are open. “The food is there Halder, this program aims at As a result of the sincerity of for the taking. The volunteers ending hunger efforts made by and food wast- the RHA team, the *Estimate count age, addressing operations of RHA across all chapters two critical con- have spread at an cerns of man- encouraging pace kind simultane- in 17 cities across ously. It has India and Paki- approximately stan. Our vision is 750 volunteers to ensure that not across Lisbon a single morsel of who collect food from more are hungry to help. The com- food is wasted and not a sin- than 300 outlets; repackage munity has all of the re- gle person goes to bed on and distribute it daily to sources needed. But the true an empty stomach. around 1000 hungry people, driver is that people want to Robin Speaks “What started off as a pure weekend exer- cise has now become a way of life. RHA has made me rich in experiences. Who would’ve thought that I would meet some of the most inspiring individuals under the flyover that I cross everyday! “ VISHAKHA ACHARYA, RHA Mumbai Mark your Calendars Photo of The Month Oct 16th World Hunger Day Oct 26TH Onwards Play For A Cause: Parikrama (the band) in collaboration with Seagrams “Play For A Cause” tour across cities in India and Nepal in sup- port of Robin Hood Army. Talk of the Town- #MISSION100K The Robin Hood Army launched a Mumbai), ISB (Hyderabad), unique mass initiative on India’s and PEC (Chandigarh), IIT Pakistan’s Independence Days, 2015- (Kharagpur), Christ Univer- #Mission100k. The initiative aimed at sity (Bangalore), St. uniting students and young professionals Stephens (Delhi), IIM across the India & Pakistan to rally to- (Calcutta), Jindal Global gether and serve food to 100,000 home- Law School (Sonepat), less people on Independence Day. This Asoka University initiative was executed in partnership (Sonepat), ISM (Dhanbad), with Uber, ScoopWhoop and Zomato . NLIU (Bhopal), MICA (Ahmedabad), Stella Maris College (Chennai). In- #Mission100K received an overwhelm- spired by the drive many ing response. Over 2400 citizens2400 enthusiastic student volun- citizens (Robins & Non- Robins) , 141 teers from these colleges colleges and offices across 23 cities par- are in the initial stages of ticipated in the initiative and contributed commencing local chap- to its huge success. The participants ters of Robin Hood Army visited 42 orphanages and managed to in their cities. serve 92,000 people across the various cities. The satisfied smiles on the faces of the homeless and hungry served as Our efforts were also reward and encouragement for our vol- featured on: unteers. CNN-IBN citizen Journal- Some of the colleges across the country ist program who participated in #Mission100k are: Times Now SRCC (Delhi), St. Xavier’s (Kolkata and Follow us on : .