About Us

Akshaya's Helping in H.E.L.P. Trust was established as a charitable organization supporting the needy in Madurai, India in 2002

Utilizing his own personal savings, our founder Narayanan Krishnan fed around 30 people. In 2003, he began to serve feshly-cooked meals, and has since served over 1.7 million meals as of August 2011.

Expanding the visibility to a much larger audience in 2010, Akshaya USA was founded to support Akshaya’s Helping in H.E.L.P. Trust.

In addition to supporting the feeding of the hungry and starving on the streets of Madurai, Akshaya USA gives support to people with a variety of needs, such as the sick, mentally ill, helpless homeless, elderly, disabled, victims of rape or violence, those filthy or in need of medical care and those deserted by families or left dying on the street.

Helping the Helpless

18

YEARS

430

RESIDENTS

3

MEALS PER DAY

A Defining Moment

Narayanan Krishnan

All it takes is one moment to forever change you. This is Narayanan Krishnan’s story.

With a degree in hand and future in sight, Narayanan was on his way to be an award-winning chef at a 5-star restaurant in Switzerland.

All it took to change his plans forever was a walk on the streets of his home town of Madurai, India. It was then that he was taken aback by an elderly man lying on the side of the road.

This man was starving and filthy. Narayanan reached out to this old man who placed his frail, wrinkled dirty hand upon his. This was a defining moment.

Narayanan decided in this moment that helping those in need would be a life well-lived, providing him the happiness and fulfillment he had yet to experience until this moment.

And so Akshaya’s Helping in H.E.L.P. Trust was established as a charitable organization based in India.