There's a place here for you.
Volunteer your time, donate to the trust, pledge to plant a palm, or bring your organisation's resources to bear. Hope108 has a role for everyone who shows up.
Four Ways to Join
You decide how.
We'll make it count.
There is no single right way to contribute. Some people give time. Some give money. Some give skills. Some give space or networks or a voice that reaches further than ours does. All of it is welcome. All of it becomes service.
Volunteer Your Time
Give your time to our feeding drives, tutoring sessions, or skill workshops. You don't need experience, a degree, or a background in social work. You need to show up — and we will train you, match you to the right programme, and stand beside you every step. Even one Saturday a month changes someone's week.
Register to Volunteer →Adopt a Palm Tree
For ₹999, you plant a Palmyra palm in Tamil Nadu and become its guardian. Every month you receive a photo of your tree as it grows — a living, rooted record of your decision to restore something. Through our 1mp.space partnership, your tree is one of a million. It will outlast all of us, cooling the earth and feeding communities for generations.
Adopt a Palm →Donate to the Trust
Your donation directly funds meals for families with nothing left at the end of the week, school fees for children on the edge of dropping out, and counselling sessions for people carrying more than they can hold alone. Every rupee is tracked and reported. Donations to Anaya Jothi Charitable Trust are tax-deductible under applicable Indian law.
Donate Now →Partner With Us
Bring your organisation's CSR budget, professional network, venue, or reach to a community that will make every rupee count. We have hosted corporate volunteering days, workplace giving campaigns, and long-term institutional partnerships. If you have resources and want them to mean something, let's talk about what that looks like.
Explore Partnerships →Step by Step
How volunteering works.
From the moment you register to the moment you show up, we keep it simple. Here is exactly what happens.
Register via our Google Form
Fill in the short registration form — your name, availability, any relevant skills, and which of our programmes interests you most. It takes less than five minutes. Register here →
We contact you within 3 days
Someone from our team will reach out — by phone or WhatsApp — to understand your schedule, your skills, and what kind of contribution would fit your life. There is no interview. There is no test. Just a conversation.
You're matched to a programme
We'll place you where your presence will do the most good. Cooking or meal delivery for our Hunger Relief drives. Tutoring or reading support for our Education programme. Assisting a counsellor for our Mental Health sessions. Training alongside our Skill Development instructors. You choose what fits; we make it work.
Show up on the day
We handle the logistics, the materials, the coordination, and the brief orientation you'll need when you arrive. You bring yourself. That is genuinely all that is required.
Come back as often as you like
The minimum commitment is one session. There is no lock-in, no contract, no expectation that you will come every week forever. We would love to see you again — but we also understand that lives are complicated, and we will never make you feel guilty for a gap. Come back when you can. The door is always open.
Time commitment: as little as one Saturday per month. No lock-in. No guilt.
Group Participation
For Schools, Teams & Families
Some of the most meaningful service we have witnessed has been collective — a group of people who arrived together and left changed together. Hope108 welcomes schools, corporate teams, and families who want to volunteer as a unit.
Schools
Adopt a feeding drive or tutoring session for a term or a year. Students learn that service is not abstract — it is a warm meal handed to someone who needed it, a concept explained to a child who finally understood. We provide structure, supervision, and purpose.
Corporate Teams
Run a skill workshop. Sponsor a month of meals. Bring a team to a clean-up drive or tree-planting day. A shared challenge that asks something real of each person — not a team lunch, but a team that does something together that matters. We've seen it change how colleagues see each other.
Families
Children who participate in service activities develop a different relationship with the world. Families can volunteer together in our feeding drives or tree-planting days. We welcome children from the age of eight, with an accompanying adult. What you build together outlasts the day.
Optional — But Meaningful
The 108 Pledge.
There is no app for this. No leaderboard. No certificate at the end. The 108 Pledge is simply a personal commitment — made quietly, kept privately — to 108 acts of service over the course of a life.
Feed someone who is hungry. Plant something that will outlive you. Sit with someone who is frightened. Carry something for someone whose arms are full. Teach something you know to someone who doesn't. Notice someone who is invisible to everyone else in the room. Listen — really listen — to someone who has been talking to the walls.
In Indian tradition, 108 is the number of completeness. Not a milestone on the way to something else — the thing itself. A full cycle of service. A life in which showing up for others was part of the rhythm, not the exception.
You don't have to count them all. You don't have to report them to anyone. But if you want a number to aim for — a private horizon to walk toward across years and decades — 108 is ours. It can be yours too.
"I commit to 108 acts of service across my lifetime — of feeding, planting, tutoring, listening, carrying, and noticing. One hundred and eight moments of choosing someone else."
Common Questions
We've heard these before.
Here are honest answers.
Do I need experience to volunteer?
No. We train everyone who shows up. The only thing we ask you to bring is the willingness to try. Whether you have never done anything like this before or have volunteered with a dozen organisations, you will receive an orientation before your first session. What matters is that you came.
Can children volunteer?
Yes, with a parent or guardian present. We welcome children from around eight years old in our feeding drives and tree-planting days. Some of the most striking moments we have witnessed have been children handing food to strangers with a seriousness and care that their parents clearly did not have to teach them. We believe young people deserve early experiences of genuine service.
Is there a registration fee?
Never. Joining Hope108 as a volunteer costs nothing. There is no membership fee, no annual subscription, no event charge. The only thing this will cost you is time — and we will make sure that time is well spent.
Can my company sponsor a programme?
Yes, and we would welcome that conversation. We have worked with organisations ranging from small local businesses to larger companies with structured CSR commitments. We can design a partnership around your team's capacity, your sector's expertise, or your organisation's giving priorities. Contact us directly and we'll arrange a call to talk through what that could look like.
What if I can only give one hour?
One hour is enough. Show up. In one hour, you can serve thirty meals, tutor a child through a concept they've been stuck on for two weeks, or plant three Palmyra saplings that will stand for a century. We will never tell you that the time you can offer isn't enough. Come with what you have.
I live outside Chennai. Can I still help?
Absolutely. You can donate online through hope108.in, adopt a palm tree through our 1mp.space partnership, or sponsor a specific programme from anywhere in the world. If you are ever in Chennai, we would love to show you what your support has built. And if you know people in Chennai who might want to volunteer, send them our way.
How do I know my donation is used properly?
We publish transparent accounts of how all donations are used. Every programme is reported. Every outcome is shared. We believe that transparency is not optional for an organisation that asks for public trust — it is the condition of that trust. You can read our full financial disclosures on our Transparency page.
The door is open.
Whatever you can give,
it is enough to start.
Fourteen years of feeding, educating, counselling, training, and planting — built entirely by people who showed up. Join them. Register today. We'll take it from there.