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Helping the needy
Azhar Maqsusi recently started an initiative ‘Do Roti’ to feed poor people. Before this in 2012, he started a free food camp ‘Hunger Has No Religion’ and it will mark five years this April. About feeding the poor he says, “When I was crossing the Dabeerpura Bridge in 2012, I saw a woman, Laxmi.
Azhar Maqsusi recently started an initiative ‘Do Roti’ to feed poor people. Before this in 2012, he started a free food camp ‘Hunger Has No Religion’ and it will mark five years this April. About feeding the poor he says, “When I was crossing the Dabeerpura Bridge in 2012, I saw a woman, Laxmi.
She told me that she hadn’t eaten in two days. I bought some food and gave her. And the very next day I decided to run the free food campaign and I started ‘Hunger Has No Religion’ at the Dabeerpura Bridge. After knowing the problems of poor people, I also started the same at Gandhi Hospital.”
With his new ‘Do Roti’ campaign, anybody can help a poor person. He states that one has to carry two extra chapattis while going to work, etc. If we find a poor person in need of food at signals or somewhere else we should give those extra chapattis to them.
In his ‘Hunger Has No Religion’ campaign Azhar feeds about 350 people every day at Dabeerpura Bridge, where it starts around 12.45pm and at Gandhi Hospital around 2.30pm. “My father was an auto-rickshaw driver and he died when I was five years old. We were four boys and one girl in the family and at that time we faced many problems for food. I opened a tailor shop but it was closed early due to the influx of readymade dresses.
Later, I started the work of Plaster of Paris (PoP) and I believe that no one should sleep hungry and hence I started these initiatives,” he shares. After getting to know about Azhar’s noble initiative, an NRI (who did not want to disclose his name) started distributing 15 rice bags of 25 kg every month for his free food campaign. Azhar also said that many of his social networking friends helped him in his work. He won an award ‘Heart of Gold’ by Landmark Group, UAE in 2015 for his services.
Azhar also participated in the show ‘Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi’ hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. Reacting to it, he says “I shared my story with Amitabh sir and he was moved by it. He appreciated my work. After meeting him I got the energy to do more activities like these. He asked me to continue the good work. In that show, I also met Mohammad Azharuddin sir and he said that he will participate in my campaigns.”
By V Sateesh Reddy
