Kathmandu. The free meal program at the Khula Manch has undergone a change in its operating procedure. Since the office of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has not provided the space they had promised to provide to the Facebook ‘100’ group to continue their philanthropic task, the group members have changed their style.

The group now does not provide cooked food on plates  but delivers packaged food, treasurer of the ‘100’ group Asha Ram Yadav informed. He told DCNepal that since KMC did not make a place available for them to organize the feeding program till today, they had packed the food and distributed among the poor and jobless today morning. “We have changed our style only, we have not given up the program,” he said.

Yadav also informed that the group has arranged jobs for around 100 of the jobless people at different places. He told, “We have sent 38 people to Butwal in a condition that they would be provided job for four to six months there. Similarly, 14/15 of them have been sent to Kapan, Baluwakhani and a similar number to work at the Ram Mandir construction site in Thapathali.”

The group has not only fed the poor and the needy but also helped them go to their hometowns in Dashain and Tihar, providing them the bus fares.

The ‘100’ group is actively involved in social work and has been providing free meals to the jobless, who are finding it difficult to afford meals during the pandemic in Kathmandu.