‘Mehmankhana’ sharing Eid joy with hot meals for the less fortunate
Photo: Collected
A long queue of people, waiting on rickshaws, formed on both sides of a road, while another group was sitting on the footpath. After a while, every one of them received a plate of khichuri with meat and they began relishing the meal, and just before they finished, volunteers announced that there was also
shemai (sweet vermicelli) for everyone.
Such was the scene at 'Mehmankhana', a quaint corner of Dhaka's Lalmatia residential area today on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, as a group of volunteers organised the event to feed low-income people on Eid day.