FEED & HZCT was founded in the year 1993 by Mr.Ghiasuddin Babukhan, scion of an old reputed business family of Hyderabad in association with like-minded personalities of the city who shared his passion to make a difference in the society.

FEED & HZCT were founded with a mission to…

"Assist the less fortunate strata of the society towards better demographic level by empowering them through education."

Trustees: Foundation for Economic & Educational Development (FEED)

Trustees: Hyderabad Zakat Charitable Trust (HZCT)

Belief:

Firm belief in 'empowerment through education and freedom through knowledge' as a sure path in building a better future for the society enabled the trustees to build and nurture an organization committed to its mission and operating in all the districts of Andhra Pradesh through its centres, staff members and volunteers.

Basic Education - Schools

At basic education level the organization established and manages 61 Urdu medium schools in remote villages of the Telangana region of AP where under a few years ago no school existed, educating over 9667 children and employing 198 teachers.

The organization also established and manages 6 English medium schools providing education up to SSC level in poverty stricken urban slum areas and semi urban areas of Andhra Pradesh. Over 3000 students are being educated in these schools.

Higher Education Support - Scholarship Programme:

Over the years FEED & HZCT has developed and perfected systems that facilitate mass publicity of scholarship programmes, seek and identify deserving students and provide them with scholarship and support for intermediate (10+2) and higher education in diverse courses such as medicine, engineering, nursing, Pharmacy MBA, MCA, B.Ed, general graduation etc., thus fulfilling their educational aspirations and dreams of the poorerst of the poor comming from remote and interior villages of the state of AP.

Since inception 90% of the resources mobilized were spent on education. 10% was spent on disaster relief and diverse other charities.

Growth in Scholarship mobilization and disbursement during the last 4 years

Vision 2015

The trustees have a dream to support 4,00,000 students by the year 2015-16 and mobilize and disburse a budget of 200 crores (approx US$.50 Mill). The trustees apart from sparing no effort, firmly believe that their dream will turn to reality by the Will of Allah.

The empowerment of the poorest of the poor children and youth from remote and interior villages of Andhra Pradesh with education will enable them to achieve their oblective and cascade into economic up-liftment of their families to better demographic levels. The object is to upgrade the quality of citizens in general and muslim citizens in particular. A separate link is provided for vision 2015 that describes the goal in detail.

In the coming 10 years that is by 2015 we hope to support and help create over 100,000 professionals and graduates. Inshallah.

Disaster Relief:

The trust also undertake relief work during natural disasters or man-made disasters by raising emergency funds. In 2005 the Trust has undertaken relief operations in the aftermath of two major disasters that struck our country in the form of J&K Earthquake and Tsunami. Diverse relief operations were undertaken under a budgeted expenditure of Rs.80 Lakhs for Tsunami and Rs.1.00 Crore for J&K Earthquake.