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Women volunteers sit cross-legged on a floor covered with cloth, preparing vegetables in a kitchen. They wear white and cream saris with coloured borders, and white hairnets. Piles of green beans, carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins and potatoes surround them, and a large aluminium cooking pot sits in the centre beside a steel bowl of beans. Steel trays and a metal worktable are visible behind.

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January 20 20192019-01-20January 20 20192019-01-20January 20 20192019-01-20January 04 20122012-01-04 +1 copiesJanuary 20 20192019-01-20A group of women and men sit cross-legged on the floor of a plain, sunlit kitchen cutting vegetables for a community meal. Hairnets cover their heads. Several wear white or cream clothing, while one woman in a pink saree with a green blouse sits at left. Heaps of carrots, green beans, pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, potatoes and leafy greens lie on a burlap sack. A large steel cooking pot sits at the left edge, and a rose-coloured wall stands behind them. This is an annadan-style food preparation scene, but no a person is visible.2019-01-20A group of women sit cross-legged on a mat in a covered hall with a red wall, preparing vegetables for a kitchen. Most wear white saris with bordered edges and white hairnets. A woman in front wears an orange blouse and cuts green beans; others trim beans and chop greens into steel trays. Heaps of green beans, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots and gourds lie around them, and steel vessels sit in the background. Several women wear ID badges on their saris.2019-01-20January 04 20122012-01-04A group of women in white cloth and white hairnets sit on the floor of a courtyard against a red-washed wall, preparing vegetables for a communal kitchen. They chop and strip green beans and leafy herbs, with a curved blade and steel trays of cut greens and beans in front of them. Some wear white saris with coloured borders, one in a yellow blouse and another in a pink sari, and several have tilak marks on their foreheads. A seated man in white also sits at the back among the vegetables. Piles of gourds, carrots and green produce lie on the mat.2019-01-20Women volunteers sit cross-legged on a blue tarpaulin outdoors, preparing vegetables for a community kitchen. Many wear white hairnets and aprons; saris and salwar kameez in red, teal, orange, pink and blue are visible. They sort and trim green leaves and beans, with large steel bowls of greens and a steel pot in the foreground. Behind them, other helpers stand near steel vessels and a table of leafy greens under a tent-like shelter.2012-01-04Outdoor food preparation at a community kitchen under a open-sided shelter. Several volunteers sit on blue tarpaulins chopping vegetables: cauliflower heads, green beans, shallots and tomatoes. Most wear light green hairnets and white or pale shirts, and a man in a blue shirt and a striped shirt smiles while cutting. A large steel pot holds shallots and green chillies, and a sack of produce lies to the right. Stacked blue and orange crates and tomatoes sit behind them, with more workers in white and women in colourful saris at the edges.2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04