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The programme reached out
to communities across 100+
districts, 19 states and four Response COVID-19
Union Territories

8.5 crore

Meals delivered through Mission
Anna Seva

Ration kits being prepared by employees in Reliance Retail Distribution Centre at Bhiwandi, Thane Ration kits being distributed during Mission Anna Seva campaign in Punjab

Mission Anna Seva

Reliance Foundation launched a massive programme to Meals were also distributed to truck drivers transporting Care for animals during the pandemic
distribute meals to marginalised and under-resourced essential items. This came as a relief to the truckers who found The disruption of supply chains and limited veterinary services
communities during the lockdown. The entire staff of Reliance it difficult to get food during the lockdown, with restaurants and fodder supply during the lockdown affected animals and
Foundation and the larger Reliance family came together to shut. Reliance petrol stations in West Bengal, Kerala and Odisha livestock. Stray animals too had a tough time finding food.
support this mission on a war footing, with Reliance Retail reached out to distribute meals to truck drivers. Reliance Foundation helped arrange fodder for livestock in rural
employees playing a crucial role in packing, preparing and Mission Anna Seva provided cooked meals, ready-to-eat food areas and grain feed for birds by partnering with NGOs, which
supplying provisions for the programme. helped Reliance Foundation reach out to distant quarters and
packets, food coupons, dry ration kits to communities across
Reliance Foundation also supplied relief kits and bulk rations 100+ districts, 19 states and four Union Territories. Until July 31, distribute food for stray animals across India.
to 200+ partner NGOs engaged in similar hunger alleviation 2021, Mission Anna Seva delivered 8.5+ crore meals. Reliance Foundation also supported the rescue of 1,000+
programmes in their respective locations.
This programme reached over 41 lakh people including daily- animals in distress through Wildlife SOS’s rapid response Food being provided to stray animals during Mission Anna Seva
The rations supplied by Reliance Foundation supported wage and migrant labourers, slum-dwellers, domestic workers, hotline. A fleet of 20 animal ambulances provided fodder, feed campaign in Mumbai
community kitchens serving meals to daily-wage labourers, factory workers, and old-age home and orphanage residents. and critical care for animals during the year.
the homeless and other marginalised people. They also
served as a lifeline for migrant workers returning to their native Mission Anna Seva also provided critical support to frontline
places from the cities. Volunteers from across Reliance sites workers, including junior medical staff, police personnel and
in Mumbai, Silvassa, Vadodara, Patalganga, Hazira, Jhajjar, security forces who carried out essential COVID-19 services. Succour for the most vulnerable
Shahdol, Jamnagar, Dahej, Barabanki, Nagothane, Gadimoga Pattachitra artist receives help of MAS
and Hoshiarpur distributed meals in their respective locations.
Reliance Foundation’s support helped me a
lot during these unprecedented times. This
service of Reliance Foundation ensured me
Providing immediate relief
a week's food supply.

Reliance Foundation came forward and Rakhal
Purbasthali Village, Bardhaman district,
provided us dry ration kits. And this helped Rakhal Roy, collecting a dry ration kit from Reliance Foundation in West Bengal
us run the kitchen for the entire week. Purbasthali village, West Bengal
I express my sincere gratitude.
The lockdowns necessitated by COVID-19 took a heavy toll A migrant labourer, Rakhal’s younger son lost his job during
Nelima
Visakhapatnam on livelihoods, threatened food security and particularly the second COVID-19 wave.
affected those with existing health conditions. Low-income Meanwhile, Reliance Foundation’s Mission Anna Seva
Nelima, in Visakhapatnam, receiving dry ration kits from Reliance groups, many of whom had migrated for work to distant had put together a list of vulnerable households and
Foundation locales, were the worst hit because they were without a communities in the area where Rakhal worked. Fortunately,
support system in their new environs. Rakhal’s name figured on the list and he was soon able to
Nelima’s father, Surya Narayana, used to work as a daily But within a few days, she too had to stop going to work Rakhal Roy from Bhatra village of Purbasthali in Bardhaman receive a dry ration kit that helped him survive at a critical
wage earner at a hotel while her mother worked as a because of her illness, leaving the family in dire straits, with district of West Bengal is a 72-year-old senior citizen. Rakhal time when he found no one else to turn to.
sanitation worker at Simhachalam Temple, Visakhapatnam. no income and no food. Roy’s eldest son suffers from physical ailments and can no
Nelima lives with her mother and three siblings – two sisters longer work. So the family of three relies on the income of Mission Anna Seva is the largest free
and a brother. When she lost her father to COVID-19, her Under Mission Anna Seva, Reliance Foundation was able to the younger son. meal programme by any corporate
mother became the sole breadwinner of the family. provide dry ration kits to the family, and thus much-needed foundation globally.
assistance at a time the family had its back against the wall.