{"id":25946,"date":"2016-03-25T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2016-03-27T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T07:33:50","slug":"nanma-maram-public-fridge-at-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nanma-maram-public-fridge-at-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"This restaurant in Kochi installs public fridge where people can leave food for the homeless!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listing.entecity.com\/business\/pappadavada-mg-road-ernakulam\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pappada Vada<\/strong><\/a>, a restaurant in Kochi has come up with a brilliant idea to help the poor people: a public fridge where people can leave food for the homeless and those just needing a little helping hand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25954\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-free-food-vending-machine.jpg\" alt=\"pappadavada-cochi-free-food-vending-machine\" width=\"900\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-free-food-vending-machine.jpg 864w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-free-food-vending-machine-633x513.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Called as &#8220;<strong>Nanma Maram<\/strong>&#8220;, the fridge which is located at\u00a0Kaloor Kathrikadavu road in Kochi\u00a0works 24\/7. Everybody can access the fridge both to take and to bring food.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25953\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25953\" class=\"wp-image-25953 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-joju-food-vending-machine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-joju-food-vending-machine.jpg 900w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-joju-food-vending-machine-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2016\/03\/pappadavada-cochi-joju-food-vending-machine-222x148.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanma Maram public fridge from Pappada Vada<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apart from this Pappada Vada restaurant will stock the fridge with 50 food packets on a daily basis for the homeless. Homeless people and those struggling to buy food can help themselves to products from the refrigerator. Pappada Vada will take care of the cost and operation of Nanma Maram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25955\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/minu.pauline\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25955\" class=\"wp-image-25955\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2016\/03\/minu-pauline-pappadavada-150x150.png\" alt=\"Minu Pauline,  Founder of  Pappadavada\" width=\"107\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minu Pauline, Founder of Pappadavada<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pappada Vada is requesting residents of Kochi to bring in their excess food toNanma Maram. But make sure it is neatly packed and the food is fresh. You also need to add the preparation date of the food. The restaurant is aiming to reduce the unnecessary wastage of food, so that those in need will not have to starve. It is a matter of feeding not only the body but also the soul through a &#8220;great act of charity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pappada Vada is requesting residents of Kochi to bring in their excess food to Nanma Maram. But make sure it is neatly packed and the food is fresh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to Pappada Vada for setting an example for the society. This is just a beginning and let\u2019s hope more people will follow the same idea. Also, let\u2019s hope that people don\u2019t take advantage of Nanma Maram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pappada Vada, a restaurant in Kochi has come up with a brilliant idea to help the poor people: a public fridge where people can leave food for the homeless and those just needing a little helping hand. Called as &#8220;Nanma Maram&#8220;, the fridge which is located at\u00a0Kaloor Kathrikadavu road in Kochi\u00a0works 24\/7. Everybody can access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}