Hand in Hand is a Public Charitable Trust registered in the year 2002 with an initial focus on child labour elimination, education, and the empowerment of women. The organisation has been in operation since 1988 in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. With time, our activities have expanded as per the demands from the rural communities in which we are working, and have come to include poverty reduction interventions among rural, poor families in a big way. We envisage an integrated strategy to address the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment. It aims at building self-reliance of disadvantaged groups by alleviating poverty through sustained income generating programmes.

Registration no: 515/2010

Statutory Auditor: S R Batliboi & Associates, Chennai.

Our Integrated Community Development Project
Hand in Hand is implementing an Integrated Community Development Project for poverty reduction with five interconnected and interdependent sectors:

• SHG
• CLEP
• Citizens' Centre Enterprises
• Health
• Environment

Hand in Hand India’s work has expanded to 36 districts across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Puducherry. The NGO also has plans to expand to North and North East India. Our model has been replicated in Afghanistan, South Africa, Kenya, Brazil and Guatemala.