Grants play a crucial role in our health strategy, making them one of our key approaches to reach underserved communities.
Our grants work broadly covers the following areas:
- Comprehensive community primary health care
This area focuses on vulnerable populations in underserved geographies, where access to care is often limited by distance, cost, and social barriers. Through this work, we support Adivasi, rural, migrant, and other marginalised communities. Services span preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative care — including maternal and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and chronic conditions. Grants are central to enabling this work, supporting high-intensity, community health worker–led outreach, health education, and follow-up care. - Capex support to upgrade hospital infrastructure and patient care equipment
Public-spirited and charitable hospitals provide essential, often lifesaving care, especially in remote and vulnerable regions where public health systems may be absent, inadequate, or overburdened. They play an important role in upholding ethical medical practice and offering free or subsidised care to those who need it most. However, limited resources often make it difficult for these hospitals to sustain operations and upgrade facilities. Our grants help address this gap — supporting infrastructure improvement, medical equipment, and renovations. In some cases, we also support a combination of community health work, operational needs, and capital expenditure. - Palliative care programmes
This area of work addresses the physical, emotional, and psychosocial needs of patients and families living with long-term, life-limiting, or life-threatening illnesses — not only those at the end of life. Our grants play a critical role in sustaining this continuum of care across community, home-based, and hospice settings. Home-based palliative care allows patients to remain in familiar surroundings, reducing anxiety, family disruption, and avoidable hospitalisation, while also easing the burden on health systems. We also support temporary hospice care and hospital-based clinical services for more complex or end-of-life needs.
Mental health grants
Our mental health grants support organisations addressing a wide range of conditions affecting adults and older people — from severe mental illness and common mental health disorders to dementia. These grants reach some of the most vulnerable individuals who cannot access or afford quality mental health care.
These grants enable end-to-end support — from awareness, screening, and early identification to stepped-care service delivery involving community volunteers, health workers, and specialists. We prioritise recovery-oriented care, rehabilitation, and social reintegration.
Beyond service delivery, our grants help build a responsive and compassionate mental health ecosystem. Our partners work to sensitise caregivers, frontline workers, police, the judiciary, and government systems, while also strengthening capacity, supervision, and collaboration.
Together, these efforts improve mental health literacy, reduce stigma, ensure continuity of care, and help individuals access their rights and entitlements — fostering dignity, inclusion, and a better quality of life.
In addition, our partners support access to essential rights and entitlements such as the Unique Disability ID (UDID) card, disability pensions, and other government welfare schemes.
