From helping people find jobs during COVID-19 to distributing ration kits during the second wave, and now serving sharbat to workers in peak summer, this Agra-based marketing professional believes giving back should become a daily habit.
During the first wave of COVID-19, when thousands lost jobs and income, Suyash Jain from Agra chose not to remain a silent observer. Along with Rajat Agarwal, he started the COVID-19 Free Jobs Forum to help job seekers connect with employers across India. What began with a simple Google Form grew into a strong support system. The forum received registrations from more than 8,000 job seekers within a month, later becoming a community of 13,000+ job seekers and 600+ recruiters, helping more than 1,200 people get back to work.
During the second wave, Suyash realised that many families needed something more basic than jobs. They needed food. Blue-collar workers, migrant labourers, daily wage earners, rickshaw pullers, and families in slums were struggling to arrange even one proper meal.
Feeding Families When It Mattered the Most
Inspired by his parents, who were already helping daily wage workers with food at home, Suyash launched the Feeding Ones In Need initiative on May 15, 2021. He first used his own income to buy ration kits, then began raising funds as the need grew. Each kit included atta, rice, dal, sugar, salt, spices, tea powder, and oil, and could support a family of four for around 10 to 12 days.
In the first drive, 150 families in Agra received ration kits. In another, Suyash and his team visited different areas of the city and served around 200 more families, also reaching construction sites. In total, more than 400 ration kits were distributed. For Suyash, these initiatives were never about charity. They were about responsibility.
Today, Suyash works as a marketing and branding professional at bijnis. Beyond his professional life, the value of giving back, learned from his parents, stays with him deeply.
The Quiet Culture of Care He Inherited
His father, Mr. Sanjay Jain, would wake up early to put bajra or rice for birds on the rooftop and give around 50 rotis to cows each morning. During summer, he stepped out early to distribute Parle-G biscuits to guards and workers before most of the city had woken up. His mother, Mrs. Sarita Jain, supported these efforts from behind the scenes, arranging things and ensuring such acts of care continued smoothly. There were no announcements, no publicity, no expectation of recognition. That culture of quiet care has become the foundation of Suyash’s latest summer initiative.
When Summer Becomes a Daily Struggle
For outdoor workers, summer is not just uncomfortable. It is unforgiving. Security guards stand outside buildings for hours. Construction workers lift bricks and carry heavy loads under the open sky. Ragpickers walk through lanes in the heat. Daily wage workers keep moving because their income depends on showing up.
At the same time, birds and small animals suffer silently. In growing cities, open water sources are disappearing. Concrete rooftops and shrinking green spaces make it harder for birds to find clean drinking water during peak summer.
Suyash’s initiative focuses on both: workers who face the heat every day, and birds who struggle to find water in urban surroundings.
Water Bowls, Bajra, and a Habit Passed Down at Home
At Suyash’s home, water bowls are placed on the rooftop for birds and pigeons, checked daily and refilled two to three times a day. Along with water, bajra is kept regularly so birds can feed properly. During extreme heat, a bowl of clean water can save a bird from dehydration. In many urban areas, birds suffer not just because of temperature, but because they cannot find accessible water.
Placing water bowls on rooftops, balconies, terraces, and shopfronts can become a simple but powerful response. It does not need a large setup or a big budget, only care and consistency.
Sharbat for Those Working Under the Harsh Sun
Suyash has also started distributing sharbat at least twice a week during hot summer days, focusing on guards, ragpickers, and construction workers who spend long hours under the sun. Many do not have easy access to cold water during work hours.
The initiative is not only about hydration. It is about dignity. When a worker receives a cold glass of sharbat mid-shift, it tells them their effort matters and that someone cares enough to stop and serve. For Suyash, the most meaningful part has been the blessings he receives from construction workers. Their smiles become the real reward.
Why Small Public Actions Matter
India’s summers are becoming harsher, and those who suffer the most are often the least visible. Guards cannot leave their posts. Construction workers cannot stop the day’s labour. Ragpickers cannot wait for better weather. Birds cannot ask anyone for help.
A water bowl on a terrace is not a decorative act. It is a life-saving one. A glass of sharbat is not just a drink. It is relief. Rotis given to cows, bajra kept for birds, and water bowls refilled every day may look like simple family habits, but together they reflect a culture of care.
Suyash believes giving back should not happen only during disasters. There are people around us who need support every single day.
Taking Kindness Beyond One Home
Suyash wants to scale this initiative with the help of volunteers, donors, and local communities. Families can keep water bowls on rooftops. Shopkeepers can keep drinking water outside their shops. Housing societies can arrange weekly sharbat distribution for guards and nearby labourers. Schools can encourage students to refill bird water bowls daily. Offices can support summer relief drives near construction sites.
The aim is not to build something complicated. The aim is to make kindness practical and repeatable.
A Reminder That Kindness Begins at Home
This initiative is a reminder that social impact does not always begin with large funding or formal organisations. Sometimes it begins with what our parents taught us: help someone before they ask, feed someone if you can, offer water where there is thirst, serve without expecting anything back.
From helping people find jobs during COVID-19 to distributing ration kits during the second wave, and now serving sharbat to workers in peak summer, the purpose has remained the same: to stand with people when they need support.
Because this is not just about water bowls, sharbat, or biscuits. It is about the kind of society we choose to become, one where we notice those who work in silence, one where giving back becomes a habit.
The Logical Indian’s Perspective
At The Logical Indian, we believe real change often begins not in boardrooms or policy drafts, but in quiet acts of everyday courage like Suyash’s. His work reminds us that India’s strength lies not only in its institutions but in ordinary people who choose to act when others look away.
