He failed his SSC examinations, He is not even a university degree holder, but still he manages to serve the poor. RB Shivakumar helps his father who supplies Banana leaves and plantain leaves to marriage halls in one such occasion he saw a load full of leftover food being loaded to the vehicle “I was shocked to see the quantity of food that was being loaded onto the vehicle. I asked the people at the marriage hall to give the food to the poor but was told that there was no one to take up that responsibility"
That is how the idea of collecting the leftover food emerged. In the beginning, people told him that if in case the food becomes stale he would be arrested as the slum dwellers might suffer from food poisoning. But he couldn't resist the fact that food enough for more than 150 people is getting wasted at every function when there are so many slum dwellers who thrive for few morsels of food every day.
Shivakumar is generally busy from January to June and August to December. “On the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, I received 120 phone calls asking me to take leftover food from halls. I collected the food from 40 halls and distributed it to around 28,000 slum dwellers.
Now Shivakumar gets calls from all over Bengaluru from marriage halls to party houses and he makes sure the food is distributed to the right set of people. A 2011 report by the University of Agricultural Sciences pointed out that food worth Rs 400 crore is wasted every year at marriage halls and Party houses in Bengaluru.
Life runs on Food don't waste it. If you want not, you must waste not.
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