Our Journey: From Durgapur Helping Hands to Anshumat Foundation
From a small idea in 2017 to a foundation for long-term impact
Our journey began in 2017 in Durgapur, West Bengal, with a simple idea: use our time, skills and resources to help people in our community.
We started as Durgapur Helping Hands Foundation, a student-led initiative focused on supporting children's education, creating awareness about government social-security schemes and helping people in need with essential resources. A public fundraiser on Milaap helped us get the early work off the ground.
That early work was small, but it gave us something more important — a belief that meaningful change begins when people come together and take action.
Over time, that idea grew.
We began looking beyond immediate assistance toward the larger challenges that shape people's ability to build better lives: access to education, skills, employment, digital resources and economic opportunity.
In 2024, the journey entered a new phase with the establishment of Anshumat Foundation as a Section 8 not-for-profit organization.
The name changed, the structure became formal, and the ambition became much larger — but the core belief stayed the same:
People deserve access to opportunities that help them build a better future.
Today, Anshumat Foundation works around three interconnected pillars:
Educate. Employ. Empower.
We are building programs, technology, partnerships and community infrastructure that help individuals move from learning to opportunity, and from opportunity to greater independence.
What began in 2017 as a small student initiative is becoming a long-term institution focused on creating systems that can serve communities at scale.
- 2017 → Community initiative
- 2024 → Anshumat Foundation
- Today → Building for scale
- Tomorrow → Building infrastructure for opportunity