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Warm meals
Fresh and home cooked, carried to patients and to the families waiting with them. Where we started, and still part of what we do.
Aatm Sukoon
It started with meals.It did not stop there.
Aatm Sukoon began in the middle of the pandemic, when three colleagues decided to do something useful with a bad year. It has not stopped since.
Not a campaign. A habit.
How it started
A kitchen,and a list of names.
In 2020 the hospitals were full and families were stranded. We started cooking at home and carrying fresh meals to patients and to the people sitting outside with them, so that nobody had to get through those days hungry and alone.
It ran on the three of us. Nived took the bookings online and worked out who needed what, and where it had to reach. Neetu cooked, every day, for however many names were on the list that morning. Lubna packed the boxes and got them ready to travel. Before long our families were in the kitchen too, and our children were packing boxes as well. It stopped being a thing we did and became a thing our households did.
It grew as it went. We put together gratitude boxes for the doctors inside the hospitals, and we stood out on the streets with refreshments for the police who could not go home either.
That was meant to be the whole of it. It turned out to be the beginning.
What we do
Four things,done again and again.
These are simple things. What makes them count is doing them again, and then again the year after.
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Blankets, every winter
Distributed each winter without fail. It is not clever work. It simply has to happen, and it has to happen every single year.
03
Teaching, and playing
In villages we teach children, and we bring sports equipment so that they have something to play with. Both matter. One is not a reward for the other.
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Time at old age homes
Essential donations, and hours spent sitting with people who were mostly short of company.
2,000+
Meals delivered
500+
Blankets given out
5
Villages reached
The three of us
We met at work.The rest followed.
What we had in common was not a plan. It was a life purpose each of us recognised in the other two, and the feeling that we could be doing something with our time that mattered to somebody other than ourselves.
Nived Mishra
Life & mindset coach
Life and mindset coach, motivational speaker, and an unapologetic fitness freak. He spends his working days helping people grow, and wanted that attention to reach further than his own practice could. Social change is the part he keeps returning to, and he is usually the first to say yes.
Neetu Singh
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur, traveller, and the one who keeps several things moving at once. Her own journey taught her to look within, and it turned into a way of working with others on personal growth and empowerment. She brings the energy and the logistics, and is happiest when helping somebody.
Lubna Niazi
Educationist
Educationist, with a real passion for teaching and an easy way of connecting with people. She works on personality development, and is exploring what the social media space can do for causes that need attention. Empathetic by instinct, and practical about how education actually shifts a life.
What came back
The messageswe kept.
These came in on WhatsApp through April and May of 2021, while the meals were going out. We have left the names out. They are the reason there was a second year, and a third.
You have been helping my mother and brother with food these few days. Thank you very much. The service you are providing gives me some confidence that humanity is still there in the world.
Bhopal, May 2021
My sister has managed the medicines. Thank you. And thanks a lot for the info on Sukoon's meal service. It has been a Godsend.
Bhopal, May 2021
Thank you so much for your help. You guys are real warriors and I will support you every month. Take good care of yourselves and your families.
Bhopal, May 2021
They got the food. They were literally crying when they got the food.
Bhopal, April 2021
I am really touched to know that you people are doing such a great service, providing food in such difficult times to people who are facing problems without any help at home.
Bhopal, April 2021
Thanks for sending extra items like biscuits and sweet lime. If I need them again, can I ask you to send more? I will pay for it.
Bhopal, April 2021
Duniya mein aise acche log bhi hain. Aap log bahut punya ka kaam kar rahe hain. May God shower all his blessings on you.
Bhopal, April 2021
I received the dinner for tonight, with a message to stay safe. May God bless you always for such inspiring work you are doing.
Bhopal, April 2021
Thank you so much for the delicious food. My grandmother liked it very much, and the sweet dish as well.
Bhopal, April 2021
May I know if you or your organisation accept donations? If yes, I would like to make one. Please let me know how, so that the noble work you are doing continues.
Bhopal, May 2021
Thanks a lot for helping us in this tough situation. God bless you.
Bhopal, April 2021
Literally homemade food, and delicious. Really great food, and good service.
Bhopal, April 2021
Bahut khaane ki dikkat ho rahi thi. Bahut accha laga.
Bhopal, April 2021
Every small actcounts for something.
Aatm Sukoon
Come and help,or tell us where to go.
Aatm Sukoon is not a service and it is not a campaign. It is three families keeping a promise the three of us made in a hard year, and keeping it in small ways, often. If you would like to help, or if you know someone who needs help, write to us.