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    Hand in Hand India

    Partly verified · checked 13 September 2026

    Cross-checked against the organisation's own site and at least one independent source. Some details could not be located in public sources; what is shown is what the cited sources state.

    Headquarters
    Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
    Founded
    2002
    Registration type
    Charitable trust
    Registered
    2002
    Reach
    Pan-India

    What they do

    Hand in Hand India is a not-for-profit public charitable trust founded in Kancheepuram in 2002 by Dr Kalpana Sankar and Dr Percy Barnevik, originally to rescue and rehabilitate bonded child labourers in the silk-weaving belt. It has since grown into a livelihoods organisation working on women's self-help groups and enterprise creation, child-labour elimination and education, skill and technology training, and basic healthcare and sanitation. It reports having supported the creation of millions of jobs over two decades and now operates in around 20 Indian states as well as several other countries.

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    Where they work

    Tamil Nadu: Kancheepuram, Chennai

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