An evening to remember- iVolunteer Seva Sandwich

This is not how I expected my evening will turn out to be. We were doing an event in our office called Seva Sandwich. There were volunteers who came with loaves of bread, butter, jam, tomatoes and cucumber. There were some 10 of us huddled together. We were peeling cucumbers, spreading butter and jam on bread slices and packing the finished product nicely in aluminium foils ready to be distributed to people on the streets and shelter homes in Delhi who sometimes find it difficult to manage one square meal.

Seva Sandwich was first introduced to me by my friend Marriete. The idea was very simple yet powerful. A bunch of us would get together in a room to make sandwiches. Before we start the activity we will think about the person who is going to enjoy our labour of love. Then the actual process of making sandwich starts. I…