When men and women, after taraweeh (special night prayers in Ramzan), are seen frequenting their favourite restaurants, or have retired for the night, a group of volunteers busy themselves chopping vegetables, cooking and straining rice, and packing the preparation. For, these food packs will find their way, through the roads and lanes of Hyderabad, to those unable to cook the seheri - the pre-dawn meal.
“Eight years ago, when a relative was in the hospital, the attendants found themselves unable to find a place to buy sehri (meal). When we went to deliver food to them, attendants of other patients asked us where we got the food from. That is when we decided to prepare and deliver sehri, free of charge,” says Affan Quadri, of Mehar organisation.
So far, Mr. Quadri, along with his colleague Mohammed Farooq and a team of volunteers led by Mohammed Rafi, have delivered around 400 sehri meals during the first three days of Ramzan. White rice, tamaate ki chutney and tahaari were served.
