HEARTS Trust

The HEARTS Trust (Human and Environment Advancement Research, Training and Service Trust) essentially endeavours to work incessantly towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations, adopted by India in 2000.

Its objectives in brief are:

i. To work towards attainment of the MDGs involving all stakeholders and organizations; to bring these issues onto the political agenda;
ii. To establish an Institute of Public Health and Environment to build human capacities
iii. To conduct/assist people-oriented research, training, extension, advocacy and enhance awareness on the above issues and in their Governance for serving the poor and vulnerable irrespective of gender, caste, creed, religion, race and nationality and build human and institutional capacities;
iv. To conceptualize and implement demonstration projects in the above fields;
v. To support students working/doing research on projects in any of the above issues;
vi. To run/assist a School or Home for poor;
vii. To run /assist a Home for poor and vulnerable senior citizens.

Its initial focus would be on education, health and environmental interventions and pilot projects in poor settlements and backward villages for evaluation and learning for possible up scaling.

It has facilitated through house-to-house campaign (by groups of students of JNTUH, Vidya Jyothi Engg. College, Moinabad and HEARTS members) the total coverage of the entire children by the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme of the Govt. of AP on 10.01.2010 at Banjara Colony, Hayatnagar, RR District.

It would invite students, youth and common citizens to involve themselves in the initiatives of HEARTS Trust and offer their suggestions for its improved functioning and extend a helping hand in its endeavours towards meeting the MDGs for India.

(Flat No.405 TNR Castle, Telephone Colony, Kothapet, Hyderabad-35; Ph: 04024043661)