Helping Minds

Helping Minds Helping Minds is a Not-for-Profit organization dedicated to empower rural and underprivileged students through education support

It all started at year 1999 at Anna University, Chennai when a group of final year engineering students joined hands to teach technical subjects for the first year students. Along with like minded friends, they then started Helping Minds in 2001 to support poor families and students complete higher education. After 10 years, 80 projects and more than 100 family beneficiaries, they and a group of around 100 volunteers still heed to a call for educational support.

28/05/2025

BCom student from Krishnagiri:

We got a request for help from a student from Krishnagiri, her father expired last year and her mother disappeared from home. She is taken care of by her aunt (Father’s sister). 2 other siblings of hers are taken care of by the other 2 members in the family. Muppi got a chance to talk to her Athai and got to know some of the details. She has got 502/600 marks in the 12th standard.

She got B.Com admission in Tagore college of arts and science, near Perungulathur.

Helping Minds trust has helped this student with Rs. 10000 per semester (20k for the entire year).

Thanks to all the HM members for your contributions, that has helped to pay for the college fees for the student.

23/01/2025

Wish you a very happy new year.

We got a request for help from a student, who is pursuing an MBBS degree at Thanjavur Medical College. He is an exceptional student who has taken the NEET exam and secured his seat through medical counseling.

He comes from a very humble background; his father is a farmer, and his mother assists with the farming work. He has an elder brother studying for B.Sc. in Agriculture at Agricultural University, Madurai.

Due to their unstable income from farming, they are struggling to manage the educational expenses for both children.

The student has demonstrated remarkable academic performance, achieving +2 marks of 595 out of 600 (99%).

HM trust has helped with Rs 10000 towards his hostel fees. Thanks to all HM members contributions through which this student is helped.

01/12/2023

Shajitha is doing B Com at Guru Nanak college, Velachery, Chennai. Her Father is working in a bakery/hotel earning a meager amount, her Mother is a homemaker. Shajitha has reached out for help to pay her college fees.

Just to recall, we helped her elder brother (Safeeq) and he just completed his degree, he is yet to get a job. If we could help her with whatever possible this year, they can manage the rest and going forward they can take care. Second semester marks – she has Scored 75%. So HM trust has helped her with Rs 10000 towards her college fees.

Thanks to all HM members for your continued support, we together are able to help such deserving students because of your contributions.

26/08/2022

There is a differently abled girl, whom the Helping Trust helped to finish UG/PG in Madurai college. She also cleared the NEET exam for teacher training. Her right arm has not developed fully. Her father is not with the family. She had scored 450+ marks out of 500 in 10th std. and 970 marks in 12th.

Sharing with you all a very happy news - She now got admitted into a PhD program and will get a stipend of around Rs. 30000 per month. She is surely an inspiration for a lot of us with her continuous achievements despite the disability.

Thanks to Subramani for referring this student to HM trust and his continuous mentoring of the student.

We have a few more deserving requests to be taken up. Please help the students through your donations.

02/08/2022

As you know, we got a request for help from a girl, who is doing MBBS in Madras Medical college and is from Maruthipatti village in Dharmapuri district. She has got very good marks - 99% in 10th std, 94% in 12th std. She is from a poor family with a family income of Rs. 6000 per month. She is the first graduate in the family. The Helping Minds trust had helped for her college fees last year.

We got the request from her this year too, we have helped her with her college fees for Rs. 15000 this year.
Thanks to Helping Minds member T.Subramani for referring her and co-ordinating regarding this request.

Thanks to HM members for your regular contributions that help in making such support to very deserving students possible.

We have a few more deserving requests to be taken up. Please help the students through your donations.

26/01/2022

We have started an initiative to identify and support the toilet cleaning needs for the Government schools. HM member Bruce, along with his friends, is providing Rs. 1.2 lakhs per month for this initiative. There are 30 Government schools identified, most of them in villages. There are a few co-ordinators who will inspect on a regular basis and provide feedback. We started with 5 schools last February and added more schools from June last year. The feedback from the schools is very positive. We believe that this initiative will help provide a healthy environment for the students.

Thanks to Balamani for identifying the schools and co-ordinating regarding this request - this is a massive effort in terms of identification, working with the school Head masters, getting their involvement to ensure the efforts and money is fully utilized. Thanks to Bruce and his friends for the continuous support for this project.

Please comment/message if you like to join hands with this initiative.

15/12/2021

We had helped for a girl doing Diploma in Optometry at Vasan Institute Of Ophthalmology. She had got 89.20% in 10th std, 67% in 12th Std. She is from Karunguzhi village in Kurinjipadi Talook, Cuddalore Dt. HM trust had provided Rs. 10000 for this student last year and helped with Rs. 10000 for this year.

Thanks to HM Member Balamanikandan for co-ordinating regarding these requests.

Thanks to HM members for your regular contributions that help in making such support to very deserving students possible.

We have few more deserving students requesting help. Please help the students through your donations.

08/12/2021

We got a request for help from a girl doing MBBS in Madras Medical college and she is from Maruthipatti village in Dharmapuri district. She has got very good marks - 99% in 10th std, 94% in 12th std. She is from a poor family with family income of Rs. 6000 per month. She is the first graduate in the family.

The Helping Minds trust has helped her with Rs. 12000 towards his college fees.

Thanks to Helping Minds member T.Subramani for referring this request and co-ordinating regarding this request.

Thanks to HM members for your regular contributions that help in making such support to very deserving students possible.

We have few more deserving students requesting help. Please help the students through your donations.

26/10/2021

The Kundrathur BE EEE student, whom we had supported with the college fees, had got placed in HCL Technologies today. The student informed us and we are excited and happy for him. Thanks to all the Helping minds trust members, for your support and contributions through which we could support the student.

He is doing BE EEE, in CIT college, near Kundrathur. His Father and Mother are weavers. They are an economically struggling family. He had scored 471 in 10th, 1037 in 12th. His BE cutoff was 184. His college CIT offers scholarships to the first 10 students based on BE cutoff, so he had got it. We had helped him last 2 years and supported him with Rs. 20000 towards his fees for this year.

Thanks to our member T.Subramanian for referring the student to HM trust and had coordinated.

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