The fundraiser is an initiative taken by the first-year students of CSE, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal to support the organisation “Pahal Ek Nayi Soch” which upholds the moto “To work towards creating a better and equal society where there is education, health and empowerment to all.” The initiative aims at providing relief to the children of the Musahar Community of Bihar, providing them with their daily meals.

Musahar Community, is a Dalit community with a history of being termed as the “rat-eater” due to their main former occupation of catching rats. There are many today still living in destitution and poverty. The pandemic has hit everyone hard but the daily wage earners suffer the most, leaving their families with hunger pangs.

Until now, Pahal has been successful at providing the Musahar kids with their daily meals, but now due to lack of employment of parents, the number of children in need has greatly increased which is currently three hundred and fifty, as a result the current supply cannot meet the rise in demand. At an average, the monthly expenditure of the organization is around one lakh and fifty thousand rupees.