In 2016, a small group of friends in Bengaluru began cooking extra meals on weekends and driving them to families sleeping under a flyover near Indiranagar. There was no five-year plan — just a habit that grew.
Word spread. More hands joined. Within two years the group had registered formally as Apna Sansaar Charitable Trust, and the work had grown from meals to tutoring, from tutoring to health camps, and from health camps to a permanent presence in over 80 communities.
What hasn't changed is the way decisions get made: someone from the community tells us what's needed, and we go find a way to provide it — not the other way around.
Every decision starts with the person in front of us, not a policy document.
Every rupee is accounted for and our audited reports are public, always.
We design programs with the families we serve, never in isolation from them.
We stay with a community until it no longer needs us there — that's the actual goal.
Three volunteers start distributing home-cooked meals to families near Indiranagar flyover, Bengaluru.
Apna Sansaar Charitable Trust is registered under the Indian Trusts Act, and the first after-school centre opens.
Ration kits and oxygen support reach over 4,000 families during the toughest months of the pandemic.
Trust achieves full tax-exemption status, and monthly mobile health camps launch across 40 wards.
Programs now run across 86 villages and wards, with a full-time team of 22 and 300+ active volunteers.
A small core team, backed by hundreds of volunteers who show up week after week.
We publish annual audited reports and our trust deed for anyone who asks. Transparency isn't an add-on for us.