A small team. A long conversation.
We are a team of 46 across nine states, and hundreds of community collaborators. Our work is guided by a simple principle: show up, listen first, and stay for the long haul.
Four sentences we come back to when a decision is hard.
Listen first
Every programme begins with a season of listening — no assumptions, no template solutions.
Stay long
We measure our work in years, not quarters. Trust is the only real currency.
Local first
Field teams are rooted in the communities they serve. We are guests, always.
Transparent
Every rupee is reported. Every mistake is written down and shared.
Fifteen years, quietly.
LTCF was never planned as an organisation. Here are the years that shaped it — in the words of the people who lived them.
2002
The seed of an idea
A group of college friends in Bhopal begin weekend tuition classes for children in a nearby basti. No name, no plan — just a Sunday habit that refused to end.
2006
An informal collective
The Sunday habit becomes a monthly pool of ₹500 each. Books, notebooks, one second-hand blackboard. Still no letterhead.
2011
A kitchen table beginning
Registered as Love To Care Foundation. Five friends pool ₹2,000 a month to fund school supplies for 12 children in a Bhopal basti.
2014
First learning centre
Opened in a two-room space near Karond, serving 60 first-generation learners with two teachers.
2017
Health circle
Launched maternal health camps across 6 villages in partnership with local ASHA workers.
2020
Pandemic response
Distributed 42,000 ration kits, moved learning to community radio, and lost two friends we will not forget.
2023
Livelihood cohort
First 120 women graduated from the tailoring & digital literacy programme. 86% are still trading today.
2026
Where we are now
Working across 9 states with 38 partner communities, a team of 46, and more questions than we started with.
Registered, audited, accountable.
LTCF is registered as a public trust in Madhya Pradesh (Reg. No. XXXX/2011) and holds 12A, 80G and FCRA certifications.
Our annual audit is conducted by Chaturvedi & Co. and published on our Knowledge Center each December. Our board meets quarterly; minutes are available on request.