A hot lunch in a tribal hamlet, 12 January 2025

The trust’s folder for its work with tribal people holds 19 photographs, all from 12 January 2025.

Dates in this post are the dates in the file names of the photographs on the volunteers’ phones.

The scene

Volunteers stand beside tall steel containers under a large tree. Villagers wait with plates. A volunteer serves a girl who holds out a plate, a child sits and eats, and a woman sits on the doorstep of her brick house with a plate in front of her. The houses are brick with simple roofs; the ground is bare.

Why one day is still worth a page

The hamlet is far from town, so a lunch means a journey for the food as well as for the volunteers. A single day cannot change a village, but it can feed the people who gather, and it records that the trust has been there.

What the trust does not claim

The records do not give the name of the hamlet, the number of families or the cost, and the trust does not publish them without permission from the village. It says what it can prove: nineteen photographs, one day, a hot meal served under a tree.

Read the tribal communities page. The trust number is 97036 30893 (call and PhonePe).