Coimbatore: Imagine walking into a complete stranger’s home together with your circle of relatives or friends for breakfast on a Sunday morning. Sounds awkward?
A community of kids within the city guarantees the exact revel in with a just right homemade meal, a chance to meet a circle of relatives, get acquainted with their tradition and lifestyles and a probable friendship.
Saibaba Colony-based Bay 146 — a café and community that goals to lend a hand strangers meet every different, connect and community on an informal basis — is organizing ‘Breakfast at a Stranger’s Home’ every alternate Sunday. You get to stroll right into a stranger’s house, have a sizzling meal ready via them and revel in some quality time getting to understand them.
“This is solely in a different way of accomplishing our community’s intention of allowing contributors to meet new other folks,” said founding father of Bay 146, B Shanjay. “Initially, we concept the development will interest simplest other folks, who are new to the town and come now not understanding somebody. But we surprisingly received massive responses from homemakers, who were concerned about webhosting other folks and getting to understand other folks outdoor their circle of relatives and friend circle,” Shanjay instructed TOI.
The community held the first breakfast at a Chettinad home, which used to be attended via greater than 10 other folks within the 25 to 40 age team. “During the first half-an-hour, the guests offered themselves. It used to be adopted via breakfast, which integrated a lot of traditional Chettinad items. Later, the residents of the home spoke about their home, how their circle of relatives got here into the town, gardening and different spare time activities,” said Shanjay.
While this Sunday can be a breakfast at a south Indian or a Gujarati home, in July, contributors get to revel in a breakfast in a most often farm set up.
Viren Dave, a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student from Sri Krishna College, who attended the first version of the development, said, “I determined to spend a Sunday socializing and getting to understand other folks as an alternative of slumbering. We had a fantastic revel in exploring our hosts heritage Chettinad home, their vintage assortment and getting to meet them together with seven other folks.”
Participants have to pay a fee of Rs 150 every and tell the community through their Facebook page or via giving them a decision, at least an evening earlier. To make the development more straightforward at the hosts, a cap has been placed at the number of contributors at 15. But on a mean, 10 other folks flip up for those occasions. While Rs 50 goes towards the Bay 146 community, the hosts receives a commission Rs 100 for every participant they host.
“It is a win-win since the hosts get to recuperate their value and get to meet other folks,” said Shanjay.
A community of kids within the city guarantees the exact revel in with a just right homemade meal, a chance to meet a circle of relatives, get acquainted with their tradition and lifestyles and a probable friendship.
Saibaba Colony-based Bay 146 — a café and community that goals to lend a hand strangers meet every different, connect and community on an informal basis — is organizing ‘Breakfast at a Stranger’s Home’ every alternate Sunday. You get to stroll right into a stranger’s house, have a sizzling meal ready via them and revel in some quality time getting to understand them.
“This is solely in a different way of accomplishing our community’s intention of allowing contributors to meet new other folks,” said founding father of Bay 146, B Shanjay. “Initially, we concept the development will interest simplest other folks, who are new to the town and come now not understanding somebody. But we surprisingly received massive responses from homemakers, who were concerned about webhosting other folks and getting to understand other folks outdoor their circle of relatives and friend circle,” Shanjay instructed TOI.
The community held the first breakfast at a Chettinad home, which used to be attended via greater than 10 other folks within the 25 to 40 age team. “During the first half-an-hour, the guests offered themselves. It used to be adopted via breakfast, which integrated a lot of traditional Chettinad items. Later, the residents of the home spoke about their home, how their circle of relatives got here into the town, gardening and different spare time activities,” said Shanjay.
While this Sunday can be a breakfast at a south Indian or a Gujarati home, in July, contributors get to revel in a breakfast in a most often farm set up.
Viren Dave, a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student from Sri Krishna College, who attended the first version of the development, said, “I determined to spend a Sunday socializing and getting to understand other folks as an alternative of slumbering. We had a fantastic revel in exploring our hosts heritage Chettinad home, their vintage assortment and getting to meet them together with seven other folks.”
Participants have to pay a fee of Rs 150 every and tell the community through their Facebook page or via giving them a decision, at least an evening earlier. To make the development more straightforward at the hosts, a cap has been placed at the number of contributors at 15. But on a mean, 10 other folks flip up for those occasions. While Rs 50 goes towards the Bay 146 community, the hosts receives a commission Rs 100 for every participant they host.
“It is a win-win since the hosts get to recuperate their value and get to meet other folks,” said Shanjay.
New friendships blossom as strangers meet over meal and more
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