Kalam Foundation · Telangana

We look after the two ends of life.

A child in a government school with no note pads before the exams, an elder in an old age home nobody visits on a Tuesday. That is where this foundation works — books, rations, sports kits, health camps, and an hour of company, most weeks of the year.

Hyderabad and six districts Six programmes Volunteer-run
Children sitting on the floor of a government school classroom
A classroom we support. Photograph from the Foundation archive.
Why we exist

Kalam Foundation is a small, volunteer-run foundation in Hyderabad, inspired by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and answerable, week by week, to the schools and homes we work with.

Help that is needed most is often the help that is noticed least.

For most of our children the government school is the only institution that will ever be built for them. When there is no library, when forty children share eleven desks, when a computer sits locked in a room because nobody was trained to use it — a generation is lost quietly, and nothing about it looks like a crisis.

So we work on the ordinary things a classroom actually needs: a shelf of books, a bench that does not tip, a working computer, a cricket set, a health check before the exams. And for our elders — the parent who has outlived their income, the grandmother alone in a rented room — we visit, we take food and medicine, we fill the pension form, and we come back next month.

Who we are

This week

What we did, in the order we did it.

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Sketch portrait of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts, and thoughts result in action.”
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam · 1931–2015 · 11th President of India

Where we work

Hyderabad, and the districts around it.

Everything we do is within reach of the city on a Sunday. That is deliberate: a programme you cannot revisit is a photograph, not a programme.

Who we are

6
districts
6
programmes
52
weeks a year

Hyderabad · Rangareddy · Medchal–Malkajgiri · Sangareddy · Nalgonda · Vikarabad

Follow the week

The same work, posted as it happens.

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Get involved

Three ways to be useful this month.

01

Volunteer with us

Teach an hour a week, run a health camp desk, drive a distribution round, or help a student fill a form. Your district is probably on our list.

Sign up
02

Adopt a government school

One school, one year: library, desks, a computer, sports kit and two health checks. We will send photographs and a simple account of what was bought.

Talk to us
03

Start a local group

If you have ten people and a district, you have a chapter. We will help with registration, banking and the first programme.

How it works

On donations

We are not collecting money online at the moment. Online giving opens shortly. Until then, if you would like to fund a school kit, a camp or a month of ration, write to kalamfoundationts@gmail.com and we will tell you exactly what it buys.