Eighty-three years of purpose.

Empowering lives through dignity, education and opportunity.

The Husainy Trust was founded in 1943 as Madarasa-e-Husainy and Yateemkhana by S. V. Mir Ahmed Ali Sahib, to care for and educate orphaned and destitute children.

Today it is a non-communal, non-political, non-profit institution that runs Husainy Schools and the Husainy Home for Children on its historic Husainabad campus in Ramapuram, Chennai, and manages Community Spaces across the city. It is now working to revive its Skill Development Centre, once the Husainy Industrial Institute. It is governed by an elected Board of Trustees and a General Body of over 700 members.

An early photograph of the Husainy Yateemkhana building at Husainabad, Madras — Where it beganThe Husainy Yateemkhana (orphanage) at Husainabad, Madras, in its early years.The Husainy Home for Children carries on its work on the same campus today.

Founded1943

Registered underSocieties Registration Act, 1860

CharacterNon-communal · Non-political · Non-profit

CampusHusainabad, Ramapuram, Chennai

“My Lord, increase me in knowledge, and join me with the righteous.” — the prayer on the Trust’s emblem

Our motto

God of All is One:
Whole Humanity, One Family.

The belief at the heart of the Trust since 1943: one Creator, and one human family, which is why its schools, its Home and its welfare are open to all, whatever their faith.

Our vision

Empowered people. Uplifted communities.

A society in which every individual, whatever their beginnings, is enabled to lead a life of self-reliance, dignity and purpose, and rises to lift others with them.

Our mission

Enabling lives through education, care and skills since 1943.

For over eight decades, The Husainy Trust has enabled individuals to build better futures through three interconnected pillars: education that opens doors, care that provides stability, and skills that create independent livelihoods.

We believe lasting change comes not from short-term assistance but from sustained investment in learning, discipline and values. Through our institutions and initiatives, we respond to the evolving needs of society while remaining anchored in our founding purpose: to nurture responsible, self-reliant and contributing members of society.

01 · Husainy SchoolsEducation that opens doorsSee the schools → 02 · Home for ChildrenCare that provides stabilitySee the Home → 03 · Skill Development CentreSkills that create independent livelihoodsBeing revived · see the plans →

“Promotion of the welfare of the orphans is an act of great goodness.”— The Holy Qur’an

Our values

Five values that guide us

Inscribed on our emblem, and lived in every institution we run.

01FaithGrounded in belief, guided by conscience in all that we do.

02StrengthBuilding resilience, discipline and character in every child.

03KnowledgeEducation with values, as the surest path to self-reliance.

04BrotherhoodService without discrimination, and lifting one another up.

05IndustryThe dignity of work, and skills that sustain a livelihood.