United Against Hunger: BERC at Rai Foundation

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

On the occasion of World Food Day, Bio Engineering Research Centre (BERC) of Rai Foundation Colleges, Belapur, Navi Mumbai, organized an educational event, based on the universal theme, "Investing in Agriculture for Food Security". The occasion was celebrated for the third consecutive year at BERC. It's an annual international event to mark the foundation of Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the United Nations Organization on October 16, 1945. The objective of this day is creating awareness for the need to eradicate hunger across the globe. The commitment to stand united against the menace of hunger, poverty, and diseases goes beyond just the celebration of the world food day.

BERC ensures that a part of collection made from various activities round the year is voluntarily used by students to promote social causes. In the year 2004, the money was shared with an orphanage at Mankhurd for medicine and Vitamin A drops. The following year (2005) part of donation was used to support of a child through CRY (Child Rights & You). The thought philosophy behind the celebration every year is to address difficult issues in entertaining manner.

The two days program managed by the students of biotechnology was marked with a number of events like a quiz, nutritious food stalls, educative posters competition, and games. Eminent guest speakers made presentations. Students, faculty and staff from all departments participated whole-heartedly. The celebrations were commenced with the lighting of the traditional lamp. The Biovita quiz was a great success. The poster competition reflected the sensitivity of the youth towards the worst of the crises, the mankind is facing. The exploitation of the farmers, effect of pollution on agricultural lands in war-stricken countries, food paucity, etc. were very well depicted in the posters. The food stalls were most popular during the event. The students prepared food and drinks ranging from Indian to Italian. Besides proving their culinary talent, the designing ability was also on the display at every stall. The School of Fashion Technology (SOFT) had a surprise for all - a mannequin dressed in vegetables made all heads turn.

The second day hosted eminent guest speakers. Dr A.K. Kohli, Chief Executive of Board of Radiation & Isotope Technology (BRIT), a division of BARC, enlightened the students and faculty on "Radiation Processing of Foods--------------". The second speaker, Dr. S. V. Gadre, Retd. Asstt. Director and Head, Dept.of Bacteriology, Haffkine Institute discussed "PCR & Its Application". Both the speakers enlightened the students by sharing their experiences and knowledge. They also distributed prizes to the winners of various events. BERC students shared the responsibility, knowledge, fun and presented a successful collective effort.

Rahul Bajpai, Media Relations, Rai Foundation, +91 9313556481/ +91 9910475123 rahul.bajpai@raifoundation.org

Source: Rai Foundation (Business Wire India)

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