Porumamilla is a Mandal in Andhra Pradesh state and its population in 2022 is 74,159. People from different villages in the Porumamilla Mandal come to Porumamilla town for their livelihood. They come to work in various offices like Mandal development office, Mandal Revenue office, Agriculture office, Electric office, Police station, Village secretariat etc. They also come for medical treatment. Besides people also work for daily wages and small-scale businesses. They usually rely on hotels for their afternoon meal.

Porumamilla town has a lot of hotels or restaurants to serve them food. However, they are not quite affordable to poor and needy.Recognizing this, Mother Teresa Foundation decided to start providing afternoon meal just for Rs.5/- through Mother Teresa Foundation Food Canteen Program. We decided to serve the food daily near Rangasamudram Sachivalayam-1 or Village Secretariat as this place is really accessible to all people. Our motto behind this program is fairly simple. As Saint Mother Teresa said, “If you cannot feed 100 people then just feed one.” Mother Teresa Foundation through its Food canteen program feeds 150-
160 people daily.

We started this program on January 28th 2022. Donors have responded to his program tremendously well. People responded to this program by donating both in cash and kind. They donated rice bags and many people committed themselves to donate 1000 rupees a month. Many others have donated their yearly payment of
12,000 rupees.

Chitta Vijaya Prathap Reddy Andra Pradesh State Food Commission Chairman has promised to donate eggs daily to this hot meal program since April 4th 2022. People have also donated special items like eggs, sweet on their special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries or in the memory of their loved ones on their death anniversaries. It is by their generosity that we are able to keep this program going. However, this is a never-ending program and the expenses to carry on this program are fairly high