The document proposes establishing a community organization called Helping Hands in Kerala, India to distribute food and clothing to disadvantaged groups. It discusses two similar organizations - OZ Harvest in Australia and Food for Life Vrindavan in India - as models. Helping Hands would collect excess food from shops, bakeries, restaurants and distribute it along with donated clothes to homeless people, those in poverty, orphanages, hospitals and more on a daily basis to prevent food waste and help those in need. Ensuring food safety, community support, funding and leadership would be important for sustainability.
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![HELPING HANDS community based organization<br /> <br />Assessment Task – 1 STRATEGY REPORT<br />Kerala is a state in India, located on the southwestern region of the country. Even though there are many community based organizations in Kerala there are no active organizations involved in food banking. Some of the rich people provide food for one day in orphanages or other charitable organizations occasionally if they have any functions in their family like birthday, marriage etc. I would like to develop an organization in Kerala which distributes food and clothes for the most needed people in community, those who are disadvantaged or at risk, including homeless people, charitable organizations etc. <br />I was very much impressed with two charity organizations one in India and the other in Australia which influenced me to design a new organization which provides food and clothing to the most needed ones in the community. <br />OZ harvest food rescue– OZ Harvest is a non-denominational charity that rescues excess food which would otherwise be discarded. This excess food is distributed to the charities supporting the vulnerable in Sydney, Canberra, Newcastle and Adelaide. OZ Harvest was founded in Sydney, November 2004. They began with one van and delivered 4000 meals in their first month of operation. Currently in Sydney OZ Harvest delivers 180,000 meals per month with a fleet of 10 vans. <br />OZ Harvest collects food from function centers, caterers, restaurants, supermarkets, corporate offices, cafes, tourist operators and provides that food to charity. OZ harvest is the only charity that collects and delivers excess perishable food in Sydney on a daily basis. <br />Food for life Vrindavan – Food for life Vrindavan is a humanitarian association recognized by the Indian government. For the last 10 years food for Vrindavan has worked in the poorest villages in the Vrindavan area (In New Delhi). Their work includes food distribution, basic medical assistance, training courses for women, drilling for drinking water and construction of water tanks, assistance to the elderly and disabled, distribution of clothes, environmental projects and education, providing primary school education for disadvantaged children. <br />After knowing about these organizations a detailed research was done by me to know the various ways to set up an organization with similar functioning methods, their best practice methods and how to consider a range of viable options for making this program sustainable. These two organizations were working successfully for many years.<br /> <br />The organization which I would like to set up is named as HELPING HANDS. Helping Hands will have a combined function of OZ harvest and food for life Vrindavan. That is - the organization will be concentrating on distribution of food and clothing for the needed ones. The target group includes: <br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/communitydevelopmentstrategy-101210122939-phpapp01/85/Community-development-stratgies-1-320.jpg)
