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Photographs taken by our own volunteers
Every picture on this page was taken in the field by someone from the trust. Some are blurred and some are crooked. They are true.
Album 01
Outdoor food service
Cooking in very large pans, loading food on motorbikes and handing plates to people on the pavement.
In these pictures the food is the first thing you notice: onions and carrots in a pan as wide as a table, plates piled on a bike, a woman with a load on her head taking a packet from a volunteer. The volunteers wear the same white t-shirt, bend to the level of the person they serve and hand the plate over with both hands.
Album 02
Blankets, clothes and sandals
Warm blankets in winter and sandals for people who walk barefoot on hot roads.
Blankets are folded in tall striped stacks before they are given out, and clothes are sorted by size. In the sandal pictures a volunteer kneels in the road to fit a pair on a man’s feet. It is a small act, but on a hot road it is the difference between walking and limping.
Album 03
Blood donation and medical camps
Donors on reclining chairs, doctors with volunteers and the poster of a free medical camp.
A donor lies back on a chair while a nurse checks the bag. Doctors and volunteers stand together for a group photograph at a medical camp. A poster lists the tests offered at one camp. These pictures show that the trust works with doctors and that people come to camps because they are free.
Album 04
Old age homes and elders
Gifts, meals and company for older people, including a visit to the old age home at Yanam.
At the Yanam old age home, volunteers hand a gift to each resident by hand and sit beside them for a while. In a tent shelter a volunteer brings a sack of rice to an elder who cannot walk. The care in these photographs lies in the time given, not only in the gift.
Album 05
Children's homes
Birthday cakes, fruit, meals and visits, including children who use wheelchairs.
Children sit on a blue floor and eat from steel plates. A cake sits on a small table while volunteers clap. A volunteer feeds a girl in a wheelchair and baskets of fruit are shared at the home in Kondakarla. These are ordinary days made a little brighter.
Album 06
Tribal hamlets
Hot lunches served under the trees to families in tribal villages.
Under a large tree, in front of brick houses, volunteers serve hot rice and curry to families. A child holds a plate. A woman sits on a step with her meal. The hamlets are far from town, and the food is cooked there or carried there the same day.
Album 07
Widows and families
Groceries and eggs for women who lost their husbands, and help for families at home.
A row of women stand with bags of groceries in a covered hall, and others hold trays of eggs. The banner behind them names the trust. Other pictures show a family visit and a volunteer choosing rice and oil in a shop for a family in difficulty.
Album 08
Celebrations
Independence Day with sweets and flags, and a get-together for children in a hotel hall.
Flags hang across a hall on Independence Day. Children in school uniform wait for sweets. In another picture, children and volunteers sit around round tables in a hotel hall for a get-together and a meal. These are days when the children are the guests.
Album 09
Meals for children
Breakfast, rice and curry, fruit and eggs served to children in long rows.
Bananas, boiled eggs, bread, vegetables and rice are laid out in trays before a meal. Children line up with plates in their hands. These pictures show that a meal can be simple, and that what matters is that it is warm, fresh and served with respect.
Album 10
Our volunteers
The people who do the work: students, workers and friends in the HNP t-shirt.
The people who make all this possible stand in a field, on a beach and under a row of flags, all in the same white t-shirt. Some are students, some are working. Most of them give their free time and many give their own money as well.
Why a gallery matters to a trust
People who give to a charity cannot be everywhere. A photograph lets a donor in Hyderabad, Chennai or Dubai see what happened on a pavement in Visakhapatnam. It lets a student see what a volunteer day looks like, and it lets a doctor see what a camp needs.
It also keeps us honest. A volunteer who knows that the work will be photographed and shared is more careful. A donor who sees the picture can ask a question if something looks wrong.
What the pictures cannot show
A picture cannot show the heat, the noise of the road or the way a hungry child holds a plate with both hands. It cannot show the hours spent in the market buying rice or in the kitchen cutting vegetables. It cannot show the evenings spent planning the next day.
Come and see for yourself. The best photograph is the one you take on your own phone, standing beside a volunteer, on a day when the work is being done.
How these photographs are taken
Volunteers take photographs on their own phones at the time of the activity. We ask the home, the family or the person before we take the picture, and we do not publish names.
Some of our records are older than the phones we carry now. The oldest newspaper clipping in our records is dated October 2021, and it reports a food distribution for homeless people organised by the trust.
If you see yourself in a picture
If you or your child appear in a photograph and you would like it removed, write to us at the address on this page. We will take it down within a day.
We also ask visitors not to copy the pictures of children for use elsewhere. They are shown here only to explain the work.
Looking closely at one photograph
Pick any picture and look at the edges. You will see a motorbike with food boxes tied behind the seat, a steel plate held with both hands, a banner of the trust tied to a pillar, a child looking at the camera with curiosity. These details tell you more than a caption can.
We invite you to look at the faces of the volunteers as well. They are not models. They are ordinary people who have taken a morning off to do something for a stranger.
Pictures for different readers
A donor can use the gallery to see what a gift can do. A volunteer can use it to prepare for a first day. A teacher can use it to explain charity to a class. A journalist can use it to see what the trust does and ask for a visit.
If you need a photograph at a larger size for a report or a news story, write to us and tell us how you plan to use it. We will send the original if the people in it have agreed.
Keeping the gallery up to date
We add new photographs after each activity. Older pictures stay, so that you can see how the work has grown. If a picture is poor in quality but important in meaning, we keep it.
If you took a photograph at one of our events and want to share it, send it with a note about who is in it and whether they agree to be shown.
If you want to use a photograph
Please write to us first. Tell us who you are, what you are writing and where the photograph will appear. We will tell you whether the people in it agreed to be shown and whether a larger file is available.
We ask that you do not crop out the trust’s banner or the volunteers’ t-shirts, because they show who took the picture, and that you do not use pictures of children to sell anything.
Add your own photograph
If you have photographs from a food service, a camp or a visit, send them to us. We will credit you if you wish.