Mr Mohd. Rafiuddin Nayyar, the founder President and Director has been the architect of HCHW. Infact it was his sheer commitment, vision and dedicated hardwork that was instrumental in establishing HCHW as a full fledged professional organization. As a young student while doing his bachelors course in social work (that involves four days of class room teaching and two days of field work exposure and / or placement), Mr Rafiuddin was exposed to a number of organizations and institutions, hospitals, industries, charity organizations, orphanages, homes for the differently abled children so on and so forth, thus exploring a variety of work cultures, patterns and practices. As a budding social worker he used to wonder how far he could preserve his ideals; use creativity; and innovative aspiration after joining an employer.

Gradually, he developed a strong desire to serve the deserving poor, down trodden and needy in the society. In those days, there were absolutely no non-profit organizations established or managed by professionally qualified social workers. Neither was social work considered a lucrative career. Today, the situation has changed as the Donor World started emphasizing the need for qualified social workers in the non-profit sector.

As a student, Mr. Rafiuddin was never satisfied with the quality of services being offered by other organizations visited as part of academic exposure and learning purposes. The usual typical response from those organizations would be the scarcity of resources. On the other hand, Mr. Rafiuddin used to feel that in spite of the resource crunch, non-profit organizations can ensure better quality with the available funds.

Gradually, he had nurtured a dream of starting his own organization, which can yield results with quality; ensure change with dignity; and create the urge for a meaningful life. Soon, he was able to crystallize his ideas and long-term goals. He was firm to keep the scope of his organization wide enough to be able to work with any segment of society. He thus decided to work for the cause of human welfare particularly who are deprived of basic living standards of life by exploring and strengthening their capacities and potentials through result oriented and need based services thus ensuring sustainable changes in the conditions of these sections of the society.

Looking at like minded personalities, he found Mr. M Raja Shekhar and Mrs. Vanila Bhaskaran as strong support and source of great encouragement for his vision to transform into reality. His dream transformed into reality with the formation of Hyderabad Council of Human Welfare as a secular, democratic; non-political and non-profit organization. It was established on 2nd October 1990 with a profound spirit of National Integration and firm belief in the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. October 2nd marks the birth of Mahatma Gandhi who had given allover the world the message of peace and non-violence. In the sense, the day is very significant for Indians and apt to initiate such noble ventures. HCHW has been a unique effort in the city of Hyderabad initiated by a group of trained and qualified social workers to promote social work and social welfare activities. HCHW started working and slowly gained accolades and expertise over its work in child sector.

HCHW has been working effectively in the field of development specifically with children living on streets and in other difficult circumstances towards their rehabilitation and re-integration. It also works with women and families in urban slums towards their development and empowerment. All the programmes of HCHW have evolved over a period of time based upon the needs and situational demands. Today, HCHW is envisaging of making Hyderabad a ‘Child Friendly City’, and is thus, striving for the promotion of child rights and ensuring safe and joyous childhood to in children difficult circumstances.