{"id":952308,"date":"2025-08-04T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952308"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:09:52","slug":"how-a-fundraising-e-mail-shaped-telanganas-biggest-helping-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/04\/how-a-fundraising-e-mail-shaped-telanganas-biggest-helping-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"How a fundraising e-mail shaped Telangana\u2019s biggest helping hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In 2007, a simple act of compassion set the stage for one of Hyderabad and state\u2019s most impactful health-focused non-profit organisations. Helping Hand Foundation (HHF), which now supports over 15 lakh people annually, wasn\u2019t born of a plan \u2014 it emerged from a moment of urgency. <\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, Mujtaba Hasan Askari, then a senior IT professional at Infosys and volunteer with its CSR initiative \u2018Mamta\u2019, had come across a desperate case: a plumber\u2019s son needed urgent brain surgery that cost `1.5 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In 2007, a simple act of compassion set the stage for one of Hyderabad and state\u2019s most impactful health-focused non-profit organisations. Helping Hand Foundation (HHF), which now supports over 15 lakh people annually, wasn\u2019t born of a plan \u2014 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 \u2018Mamta\u2019, had come across a desperate case: a plumber\u2019s son needed urgent brain surgery that cost `1.5 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}