Who We Are?

In a country that is home to the world’s second-largest population, when one of its largest enterprises providentially happens to be a family-driven philanthropic organisation, it raises hopes for a promising and sustainable future.

Few kids from the Abidi family decided to continue the legacy of their forefathers, especially inspired by the lives of Syed Ghulam Shabbir Abidi and Syed Shahenshah Haider Abidi, both fondly known as “Ammu” within their family circles, who played the pivotal role in shaping the lives of young aspirants by helping them through financial help, motivation, references and more importantly encouraging them to achieve their aspirations.

For people across the country, Abidi Foundation symbolises humanitarianism and personifies the prodigious force that advances new frontiers of social and economic development.

What are our immediate goals?

  • Work as a catalyst in bringing sustainable change in the lives of underprivileged children with a life-cycle approach of development.
  • Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organisation.
  • Enable the civil society across the world to engage proactively in the change process through the philosophy of civic driven change.
  • Extend the legacy at scale to various parts of India and abroad, increase our horizons, expanding it from our immediate mission to provide financial assistance to the underprivileged students.

What are our long term goals?

  • To establish orphanages
  • To Collaborate with educational institutes to facilitate the education of underprivileged students of the society.
  • To inculcate a feeling of Universal Brotherhood
  • To help appropriately should there be any National Calamity irrespective of the caste or creed of the deceased / affected.
  • To interact with other International Organizations to create an environment of cooperation and coexistence across all religions and communities.
  • To establish Charitable Health Centers and Hospitals
  • To Provide legal Aid

What inspires us? The dream that lives on ...

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What advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country."

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What advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country."

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