{"id":58525,"date":"2019-11-22T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58525"},"modified":"2019-11-22T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:58:12","slug":"former-child-laborer-now-feeds-2000-hungry-people-daily-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/11\/22\/former-child-laborer-now-feeds-2000-hungry-people-daily-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Former child laborer now feeds 2,000 hungry people daily for free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is yet another example of how some people who were underprivileged before are today more than willing to do their bit to help others in the same condition. 26-year-old Malleshwar Rao from Hyderabad, India, worked as a construction worker during his formative years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his words, \u201cI was born in a family in Nizamabad with no financial means to support me at all. Very early on in life, I realised that I would have to fend for myself and also help my family in whatever way I could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s incredible about his story is how the once child-laborer has turned around not just his own life but also impacts the lives of many others today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rao, and his organisation\u2014Don\u2019t Waste Food\u2014collects food from around the city and feeds the poor. On a daily basis, Rao feeds around 2,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This movement initiated by him has now spread to cities like New Delhi, Rohtak and Dehradun, raising the number of daily beneficiaries to around ten thousand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/203452\/hyderabad-hunger-hero-child-labourer-donate-free-food-poor-inspiring-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/203452\/hyderabad-hunger-hero-child-labourer-donate-free-food-poor-inspiring-india\/ (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.thebetterindia.com\/203452\/hyderabad-hunger-hero-child-labourer-donate-free-food-poor-inspiring-india\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another example of how some people who were underprivileged before are today more than willing to do their bit to help others in the same condition. 26-year-old Malleshwar Rao from Hyderabad, India, worked as a construction worker during his formative years. In his words, \u201cI was born in a family in Nizamabad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}