Even as California fires are slowly coming under partial control, a non-profit based in New Jersey, Let’s Share a Meal, has been working to provide meals and other supplies to the victims of the fire.

But Let’s Share a Meal is not doing just that. They are also meeting the victims and talking to them, providing the much needed reassurance that life will go on, that everything will be fine. The volunteer driven organization has been doing a great job of making people have some hope.

A press release by the organization has quoted New Jersey businessman and member Onkar Singh who mentioned how volunteers witnessed the panic in every heart and the need for reassurance. “Our volunteers went and told them ‘We are with you. Your main thing is you are alive. The whole world is with you,’” Singh said.

According to the release, the organization volunteers have been going from shelter to shelter distributing baby bikes, baby diapers, baby food, baby formulas, popcorn, water, hand wipes, toothpastes and toothbrushes, and sodas and juices.

The organization began in 2012 by few volunteers from Nanak Naam Jahaj Gurudwara in Jersey City, today has grown internationally with chapters in India, United Kingdom and Australia. Based on the teachings of Sikh Guru Nanak, the organization believes in spreading love through food for the needy.

Let’s Share a Meal today provides more than 20,000 meals to more than 100 shelters in New York and New Jersey at thanksgiving.

While constant firefighting efforts on a massive scale have contained portions of the still burning California fires in different Los Angeles neighborhoods, cleaning up efforts are also gearing up.

And yet, those who lost their homes and businesses still remain uncertain as to where they will live and where they will eat their meals on daily basis.

Other faith based organizations have also come up. The Jain Temple and the Hindu Temple have had supplies drive, collecting basic necessities supplies which they take to the victims.

Local and national organizations, celebrities, individuals and businesses, bigger and smaller non-profits have all got together in their relief efforts, with thoughtful and genuine efforts.

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