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.

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.
This week
What we did, in the order we did it.
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Our work
Four things that happen most weeks, within a morning's drive of Hyderabad.

Old age homes
Food, medicine, clothes and company at the homes and single rooms we visit on the same day each month.
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Government & rural schools
Exam pads and pens before the SSC exams, desks and chairs, books, computers and a cricket set — after asking the head teacher what is missing.
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Sports & tournaments
Inter-school kabaddi, volleyball and kho-kho, run with the schools themselves, with every child playing at least one match.
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Ration & relief
Rice, dal, oil and provisions for families, hostels and children's homes — packed by volunteers and counted.
Read moreWhat it adds up to
Six things, in the order the week usually needs them.
“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts, and thoughts result in action.”
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.
Hyderabad · Rangareddy · Medchal–Malkajgiri · Sangareddy · Nalgonda · Vikarabad
Follow the week
The same work, posted as it happens.
Get involved
Three ways to be useful this month.
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 upAdopt 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 usStart 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 worksOn 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.