Akula Padmavathi

Founder

Founder of Humana People to People India

Akula Padmavathi is the founder of Humana People to People India [1], an Indian non-profit working on education, healthcare, livelihood and environment from New Delhi.

Akula Padmavathi is an Indian development professional and a founding member and director of Humana People to People India (HPPI), a not-for-profit company registered in New Delhi in 1998 that works on education, vocational training, health, sanitation and sustainable agriculture. She has chaired HPPI's board of directors since 2004.

Education

Padmavathi holds a doctorate in international economics obtained in the United States, a qualification in forensic science and a degree in law.

Career

Padmavathi has worked for more than four decades in social development. Between 1986 and 1988 she worked on tribal welfare finances in what is now Chhattisgarh, and she has been a lecturer in economics at Sri Venkateswara College and Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi. She served as a senior economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research and, from 1990 to 2000, as director of legal aid at the Indian Social Institute. She has worked with IGNOU as a guide on its HIV/AIDS curriculum and on economics projects, and has advised on geriatric care and home-care programmes.

She was among the founders of Humana People to People India in 1998 and became chairperson of its board of directors in 2004.[2][3][4]

Humana People to People India

Humana People to People India (HPPI) was registered as a not-for-profit company under section 25 of the Companies Act on 21 May 1998. It runs the Kadam bridge-education programme for out-of-school children, the NeTT student-teacher training programme, girls' education, TB and HIV/AIDS health programmes, women's entrepreneurship and community development work. HPPI publishes annual reports, audited financial statements and foreign contribution reports on its website.

Humana People to People India reports the following, on its own site:

In 2024-25 HPPI implemented over 100 projects across 17 states, together with more than 1.1 million people in rural and urban communities.
Through the Kadam Programme in 2024-25, 145,904 out-of-school and in-school children were reached with the support of 7,785 teachers and education volunteers.
HPPI's health initiatives reached over 300,000 people in 2024-25.