Question

Identify a large long-term care system within your community (this may be a nursing home, a home care and/or hospice agency, an assistive living organization or a continuum of care organization) and arrange to interview their senior leader or administrator.

Interview Questions:

1.     Tell me about your organization (who served, services provided). How long you have worked here and how you were drawn to the long-term care industry?

Answer 1

ANSWER:-

This initiative "Dadi Ki Rasoi' started two years ago and with time it has started helping the poor. There are two such stalls operating in Noida(India). They serve good food (dal, rice, roti and other vegetables) to the needy.

He got interviewed & asked "Tell me about your organization (who served, services provided). How long you have worked here and how you were drawn to the long-term care industry?".

Interview of Mr Anoop Khanna ,Founder of "Dadi ki Rasoi" (a food Bank in Noida,India):-

We "Dadi ki Rasoi" are a nonprofits organization & we are taking initiatives like food Bank India & continue to wage war against hunger and food wastage in the urban slums.We are catering to over 500 people every day, all at the meagre price of only Rs 5.

“We wanted to provide quality food, which gives you a homely feel. We could have attempted to provide the food for free as well, but the reason for the price is that it gives dignity to a person who is buying the lunch. As far as the quality of food is concerned, I personally supervise the preparation. Moreover, since the cost is minimal, anyone can enjoy a meal without worrying about money,” he said.

“It is not so difficult. It only takes a will of a person to start something like this. I have started getting requests from the residents to help them start a similar initiative in their locality as well, so I have asked them to spend some time at my outlet just to have an idea about the functioning and challenges we face,” he says.

We believes that roti (food), kapda (clothes) and dawa (medicine) are basic needs of any individual. We are striving to make these necessities a reality to the people who need it the most, all at affordable prices.

Dadi Ki Rasoi which translates to grandma’s kitchen, The main idea behind the initiative was to help give home cooked food to all who came their way at an economical rate.

we, "Dadi Ki Rasoi" have two stalls set up in Noida. Every day between 10–11:30 am in Sector 17, and 12–2:00 pm on Sector 29, people from all walks of life, come to Dadi Ki Rasoi to satiate their hunger. Students, working individuals, rickshaw pullers, shop owners, and passersby alike, form a serpentine queue at the stalls for lunch.

Apart from food we also provide clothes to poor people and that too at just rupees 10. Upon asking from where they get clothes from and how they ensure that they give clothes to needy ones only, he explains, "People who live here in bungalows, come and donate the clothes here which are no longer in use for them. After ironing and repacking them, we give them to poor and needy people at just Rs 10. We give clothes to people once in 15 days only and we click photographers of people before giving them the clothes. On asking about their future plans or if they are planning to expand, he further added, "People do ask about the work we do. We are happy if it expands, it will be good for poor people. We can't expand it alone as we have done it here but we do suggest people to take initiative like us and we would be glad if they do so.