Vishal Singh
Quick Facts
Biography
Vishal Singh (born 19 March 1980) is an Indian Social Worker who offers food to patients’ attendants who cannot feed themselves, trying to afford proper health care for their loved ones His trust serves almost 900 attend to patients at three hospitals daily. Vishal has been serving food to the needy for about 12 years now. Apart from Balrampur Hospital, he runs a similar free kitchen at King George’s Medical University and at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.
Early life
Vishalwas born in 1980 in New Delhi. Vishal had nothing when he came back to Lucknow, except the will to do something. When he had no money, He worked at a parking lot in Hazratganj. He scavenged through trash cans for food and considered Himself lucky if he found a half-eaten, cold samosa.Later when he scrimped and saved to open his tea & snacks stall. The next was an electrode unit in Sitapur.
In the winter of 2003, after his father was admitted at a private hospital in Gurugram, every day the medical authorities asked for an over ₹50,000 deposit to continue his treatment, leaving him down to their last penny, hungry in the night, when he searched for food he realized there were many others who were in the same situation. Vishal who had spent hungry Sleepless night while attending to his old man decided to feed hungry relatives of patients. Better days followed after vishal set up a small electrode production unit in the city. He managed to send out 100 food packets each to KGMU and Balrampur hospital. In 2015, he entered the real state business and decided to launch a fully-fledged free food service.
Prasadam Sewa
In the year 2007, Vishal setup Vijay Sri Foundation where almost 900 people attend to patients at the three hospitals are served with a proper meal daily. Where Vijay Sri Foundation only cooks and serves food while the selection of the beneficiaries is done by the hospital. Every day, around 300 food coupons are issued to each hospital and the medical staff distributes them to those attendants who need them. People come in queues and submit coupons to get food. At KGMU, only over 4 lakh people have used these coupons until now.