This man from Chennai offers full meal for just one rupee for Poor in his mess!

This man from Chennai offers full meal for just one rupee for Poor in his mess!

Mangalore Today News Network

Tamil Nadum,  Sep 03, 2015: What is the value of Re 1 in our lives now a days? Some coins will be lying here and there, some in our meaningless pockets , some just to use for heads n tails.

But, in this mess, Mr Venkatraman is serving full meals in just Re 1 to the poor lives. Sri AMV Homely Mess at Erode, Tamil Nadu, owned by this person is happy to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner for Re 1 for each meal. It is situated just outside the government hospital and from where the very idea of serving the poor came to his mind. The attenders in the hospital cannot afford meals throughout the day even , as they are very poor and they may be cutting out their food expenses to buy medicines.

He started the mess in 1995, beside the government hospital as it will make it easier for the patient’s attendees to get food. The thing that he observed was that many poor people are struggling so much for just one meal for the day. The movement started when in 2007, one old woman came to his mess to buy idlis for her ailing husband but it was not available. So he asked her to buy 3 dosas for Rs10 which was also very costly for her but she somehow managed to produce Rs 10 and Venkatraman gave her 6 dosas instead.

Since then Venkatraman decided to do something for these poor people who are not able to manage their daily meals. He went into the hospital, did some research, talked with the doctors and nurses and inquired to find that almost attenders of all the patients cannot afford food daily or even tea buscuit in the afternoon.

This struck him and motivated him to offer tiffin and meals at low rates to the attenders of patients at the hospital. He started with going to the hospital himself and giving the Re 1 tokens to the people. This way slowly people were coming and they also realized that the promise wasn’t broken. They were getting full meals with no extra cost other than Re 1.