Deepankar Patil, the founding father of ‘Artwork of Serving to Basis’ in Pune, surrender his activity as a graphic dressmaker to assist senior electorate. Along with his basis, he offers loose tiffin provider to the aged.
At simply 25, Deepankar Patil left his activity as a graphic dressmaker to do one thing significant. Now 31, he’s the founding member of the ‘Artwork of Serving to Basis’.
Established in 2018, the NGO has been offering foods and improve to masses of seniors (ajjis and azobas) in Pune. They provide common tiffin products and services to aged folks with out caregivers. The workforce of volunteers now not simplest delivers nutritious foods but additionally looks after family chores, supplies groceries, blankets, and drugs.
Deepankar used to be simplest two years previous when he misplaced his father. Rising up fatherless got here with numerous problems however considered one of them used to be bringing meals to the desk. “My mom raised me and my elder sister all on her personal. We steadily went to mattress hungry and famished,” he tells the Milaap Basis in an interview.
So with a deep working out of what starvation and helplessness seems like, when Deepankar began to earn an source of revenue, he began taking a while out to ship meals to the senior electorate of Pune.
Later, he determined to surrender his profession and commit all his time to serving others. Treating the entire aged other people like his grandparents, Deepankar has equipped 1000’s of loose foods via his basis, to this point.
“When I used to be very ill as soon as, a dadi instructed me that an individual who feeds masses wish to be alive for so long as he can,” he says, including that this love he receives from those seniors assists in keeping him going.
(Edited through Pranita Bhat)