How a fundraising e-mail shaped Telangana’s biggest helping hands
HYDERABAD: In 2007, a simple act of compassion set the stage for one of Hyderabad and state’s most impactful health-focused non-profit organisations. Helping Hand Foundation (HHF), which now supports over 15 lakh people annually, wasn’t born of a plan — it emerged from a moment of urgency.
A year earlier, Mujtaba Hasan Askari, then a senior IT professional at Infosys and volunteer with its CSR initiative ‘Mamta’, had come across a desperate case: a plumber’s son needed urgent brain surgery that cost `1.5 lakh.
