Food firm TiffinLabs, co-founded by billionaire Kishin R.K., has set up a charitable foundation to give free meals to the needy during the Covid-19 crisis.
The TiffinLabs Food is Love Foundation has partnered charity Free Food For All to distribute, as a start, 20,000 restaurant-quality meals, such as chicken rice prepared by the firm’s chefs.
The distribution to those in need, including poor families and those who lost their jobs, began last Friday.
The foundation will give away another 10,000 meals to healthcare workers. TiffinLabs prepares and delivers cooked meals to its customers.
Mr Kishin, 36, told The Straits Times last Thursday: “We want to make sure there is food in every household – that no one goes hungry.”
Mr Kishin said he and the three other co-founders of TiffinLabs had planned to start the foundation before the coronavirus outbreak.
The scale of the crisis prompted them to speed up their plans.
The foundation aims to provide food to the underprivileged in Singapore and to other beneficiaries both here and overseas.
Mr Nizar Mohamed Shariff, founder of Free Food For All, said he is grateful for the partnership with TiffinLabs. Towards the end of last month, the charity had about 700 new applicants asking for food in just three days. Before the pandemic, it usually saw 100 to 120 new applicants a month.
He said of the partnership with TiffinLabs: “Now I feel we have more support, like there are more people who want to fight the good fight with us.”
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Source: The Straits Times, 27 April 2020