The Hans Foundation is a charitable trust fund created to provide a source of endowment for not-for-profit organizations in India. The Hans Foundation is the beneficiary of an endowment given by Rural India Supporting Trust. The money given to us helps enable our commitment to social development in India. The Hans Foundation supports organizations involved in projects that fall under one of our three focus areas- disability, education and healthcare.

In many cases, attention to one of these issues overlaps with answers to another, and THF normally looks at all perspectives that can be solved through funding a particular project.

The Hans Foundation is particularly motivated towards promoting improved and equitable access to education and healthcare, with special interest in improving the living standards and access to rights of the disabled.

Our funds are allocated to two paths:

a) The Hans Foundation finances grassroots organizations to ensure direct alleviation of the situation on ground. Many of these small, local organizations are run by local people, who work towards answering very local 'penny pocket' problems. This allows THF to give funding for immediate remedies and helps us to get an insight into the day-to-day problems in the communities. This exposure assists in the formulation of other projects that will promote social development in that community, thus homogenizing the progress.

To maintain a national perspective, along with the local organizations, The Hans Foundation also supports the larger organizations that have a greater outreach in the country. These larger non-profits are stronger in their impact all across the nation and learning from their vast experiences enables us to crystallize ideas and development solutions, which can be replicated across towns and villages.

b) The second way is to invest specific funding in policy based approaches. This involves a constant review of existing legislation and consistent efforts to promote policies and ideological shifts that incorporate the ideals of equal access to education and healthcare for all individuals. We also support advocacy and amendment for better implementation of existing laws, and the creation of new laws to encompass specially challenged people, to give them their rightful place in society and bring them into the mainstream of the educational and livelihood system.

The Hans Foundation’s aim and method of work is simple- do what works best. We recognize that change is dynamic and we hope that activities we promote weather the test of time or undergo changes to match the new needs of society. We forge ahead with the single-minded belief that our effort in a miniscule way helps move towards a country equal for all.