Siliguri, West Bengal · A community seva initiative since 2020
Humrahi means fellow traveller: the one who walks beside you, not ahead. On the ground with communities, and building what lets good work last.
On the Ground
Since COVID-2020: warm meals daily, cleanup drives, schools adopted, health camps, blood donation. Rain or shine.
Building the Ecosystem
A living network connecting sustainable enterprises, NGOs, and communities across Siliguri, with Humrahi working to keep those connections strong.
Where it started. Since the first 2020 lockdown, we serve warm meals with no forms to fill and no one turned away.
40,00,000+ Meals · Since 2020
Community cleanup drives, waste collection, and upcycling — turning what's discarded into what's useful.
Siliguri's First Plogging Event · June 2026
We've adopted schools in underserved areas — resources, programmes, consistent presence for the next generation.
5,000+ Students Supported
Medical checkups brought directly to communities, treating preventive care as a basic act of dignity.
Free Checkup Camps · Ongoing
Organising drives across Siliguri — building the culture of community giving, one camp at a time.
Free Donation Drives · Ongoing
Working alongside organisations already doing good work — ground support and community networks to amplify their mission.
Active Partner OrganisationsNot all seventeen — only the seven we genuinely act on, on the ground in Siliguri. Adding decent work (8) reflects our shift from relief toward livelihoods.
Cumulative figures since 2020, counted across daily meal service, free health and blood-donation camps, and adopted-school programmes.
On June 5, 2026, Siliguri witnessed its first plogging event — volunteers cleaning railway tracks and road corridors alongside a run.
Bags of collected waste. Hands that didn't stop. Energy no brief could manufacture. This is what community looks like.
Join the next one →"Lasting change grows from the conditions inside a community — where people, businesses, and purpose find each other and stay."
Humrahi began by feeding people in a crisis. But the crisis revealed something deeper: communities that endure aren't the ones with the most help from outside — they're the ones with an ecosystem around them.
We are building that ecosystem in Siliguri and beyond. A network where sustainable enterprises thrive, support each other, and grow alongside the communities they serve. Where waste becomes livelihood. Where an NGO's reach doubles because someone is working alongside them.
The pieces connect. A warm meal opens the door; a cleanup drive clears the ground; an adopted school keeps a child in class; a health camp keeps a family earning; and a local enterprise turns that momentum into a livelihood that lasts. Each piece makes the next one possible.
Humrahi works at the edges of this network rather than its centre, holding the connections together and staying present, consistent, and accountable.
We connect businesses operating sustainably to communities and markets that need them.
We add ground presence and community networks to missions other NGOs already lead, so their reach goes further.
Turning waste into value — livelihoods and closing the loop on how communities consume.
Food, schools, health — the foundations without which no ecosystem holds.
Food, blood, schools, a greener city: five years of just turning up. Pick a thread, or watch it all drift by.
Founder & President
Humrahi Foundation is built on one man's refusal to look away. Lalan Mahato started with food distribution during COVID: a van, a few pairs of hands, and a quiet commitment that no one on his watch would go hungry.
What grew from there came one need at a time. School adoptions, health camps, cleanup drives, blood donation camps, each an answer to something he saw in front of him. He keeps innovation and compassion at the centre of every initiative.
The sustainable ecosystem vision is his next chapter: not growing Humrahi bigger, but making the whole neighbourhood stronger.
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Our work happens alongside blood banks, businesses and fellow NGOs. Their support — and yours — is what keeps the kitchens and camps running.
Are you a company looking to direct CSR funds, or an organisation whose work aligns with ours? We hold CSR-1 registration (Reg. No. CSR00097461) and can take on funded programmes in food, health, education and the environment.
Prefer to leave your details? Tell us about your organisation and we'll be in touch. You can also email wecare@myhumrahi.org.
Your gift goes straight to the ground in Siliguri. Give once, or give monthly.
Donations are eligible for 50% tax exemption under Section 80G. Reg. No. AACTH8636FF20251 (valid to AY 2028-29).
Join us at the kitchen, the cleanup drive, the blood camp or the school. No special skills required, presence is the skill.
Sign up to volunteerA sustainable business, an NGO, a school, a clinic — if your work aligns with what we're building, let's talk.
Start a conversationEvery contribution goes directly to the ground. One meal is small; given consistently across years, it changes everything. Eligible for 80G tax exemption.
Donate nowTell us a little about you and we'll be in touch about the next drive, camp or kitchen shift.