A Bengal professor saw a child eat discarded food. Now he feeds 180 kids

Chandrashekhar Kundu, a professor in Bengal, once saw a child eating food that someone had thrown away. It stayed with him. He began collecting leftover food and providing meals, and that effort grew into FEED, an initiative that tackles food wastage and hunger together.

Today FEED reaches nearly 180 children and runs more than 20 free learning centres in villages. Children who often face hurdles in education get coaching there, and community kitchens serve them fresh meals. A hot meal, in other words, becomes a reason to come back to class.

FEED has also added programmes for girls' education and women's livelihoods, aiming to lift the wider community and not just the children.

It is a grassroots story, but a reminder of how one hard-to-forget sight can turn into something lasting.