Aman Nivas Shelter Home for Men
FREE📍 Begumpet
GHMC shelter home for homeless men — free stay with bed, drinking water and toilets, run under the Shelter for Urban Homeless programme with NGO partners.
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Free Help in Hyderabad
A bed for the night. A hot meal. A doctor who will not turn you away. Hyderabad looks after its own — here is where free shelter, free food and free treatment are actually available in the twin cities, verified from official sources.
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108Ambulance
181Women Helpline
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🛏️ Shelter
Free shelter & safe stay
Night shelters for the homeless, safe homes for women and children, and support centres that will connect you to a stay. GHMC does not publish one clean list of its shelters — the homes below are the ones named in the most recent ground survey (Human Rights Forum, September 2024).
Aman Nivas Recovery Home for Men
FREE📍 Begumpet
GHMC recovery shelter for men who need rest and care while they recover — part of the same Begumpet shelter cluster.
SES Shelter Home for Men
FREE📍 Begumpet
GHMC shelter home for homeless men in Begumpet, named in the most recent ground survey of the city's shelters.
GHMC Shelter Home for Women
FREE📍 Saroornagar
Free shelter home for homeless women, run under the GHMC Shelter for Urban Homeless network.
GHMC Shelter Home for Women
FREE📍 Uppal
Free shelter home for homeless women in Uppal, part of the GHMC shelter network.
Sakhi — One Stop Centres
FREE📍 Hyderabad · Sakhi 2 at Charminar (Old City)
For women affected by violence: police help, medical aid, counselling, legal aid and temporary shelter, all under one roof. Run by the Women Development & Child Welfare Department; the Charminar centre is run by the Shaheen Women Resource & Welfare Association.
Bharosa — Support Centre for Women & Children
FREE📍 HACA Bhavan, Saifabad
Hyderabad City Police's support centre for women and children facing violence — medical aid, legal aid, counselling and rehabilitation referral under one roof. Bharosa also connects women who need a stay to shelter homes.
Source: NHRC report on Bharosa & Sakhi ↗
State Home for Women
FREE📍 Hyderabad (via District WDCW office)
Residential home for economically poor, destitute women aged 18–35: stay for 3–5 years with food and vocational training (tailoring, beautician, embroidery). Run by the Women Development & Child Welfare Department since 1961.
Service Home for Women & Students
FREE📍 Hyderabad (via District WDCW office)
Residential stay with food for poor and destitute women, including students of the Durgabai Deshmukh Women's Technical Training Institute diploma courses.
Government Children Homes (SC-I & SC-II)
FREE📍 Hyderabad (via District WDCW office)
Homes for poor, orphan and semi-orphan girls aged 6–18 — free stay, food and education up to Class 10. Girls who pass Class 10 can move to the Home for Collegiate Girls and stay until graduation.
Don Bosco Navajeevan Bala Bhavan
FREE📍 New Bhoiguda, Secunderabad
Round-the-clock shelter for street-involved children and young people at risk — food, education support, medical aid and career guidance, run by the Salesians of Don Bosco since 1998. 6-2-323, Plot 197, New Bhoiguda, Secunderabad.
Swadhar Greh — scheme for women in difficulty
FREE📍 Across Telangana (via Women Helpline 181 / Sakhi)
Government scheme giving women in difficult circumstances temporary residential stay with food, clothing, medical care, skill training, counselling and legal aid — up to 1–3 years (up to 5 years for women above 55). Reach it through the Women Helpline or a Sakhi centre.
Source: MyGov — Swadhar Greh scheme ↗
🍲 Food
Free food — and the honest ₹5
Free breakfasts, lunches, annadanam and langar, served daily by Hyderabadis who believe nobody in this city should sleep hungry. The one paid entry is labelled honestly: the Indiramma Canteens charge ₹5 — subsidised, not free.
Free breakfast outside Niloufer, NIMS & Osmania
FREE📍 Red Hills · Punjagutta · Afzal Gunj
Humanity First Foundation serves a free breakfast every morning (reported at 8 AM) outside Niloufer Hospital, NIMS and Osmania General Hospital — for patients, attendants and anyone in need. Running daily since November 2016.
Source: Humans of Hyderabad profile ↗
"Hunger Has No Religion" — daily free lunch
FREE📍 Hyderabad · plus daily food at Gandhi Hospital
Syed Osman Azhar Maqsusi and his family cook and serve a free lunch to anyone who comes — 350+ people a day — and carry home-cooked food daily to Gandhi Hospital for attendants of poor patients. Serving since 2012.
Daily free Annadanam — Hare Krishna Golden Temple
FREE📍 Banjara Hills
Freshly cooked prasadam distributed completely free every day to devotees, visitors and the underprivileged — at least 300 people daily, more during festivals.
Guru ka Langar — Gurudwara Saheb
FREE📍 Ameerpet
Free vegetarian community meal open to everyone, of every faith — served after the Sunday Deewan (about 10:30 AM), on Puranmasi and on Gurpurabs and special Deewans, per the Gurudwara's published schedule. 7-1-146/2, Ameerpet.
Indiramma Canteens (formerly Annapurna)
₹5📍 150 canteens across Greater Hyderabad
Not free — but the city's cheapest full meal: hot rice, sambar, vegetable curry and pickle, and now breakfast too, at ₹5, subsidised by GHMC and served with the Hare Krishna Movement Charitable Foundation. Night meals run near major hospitals. Open to all — workers, students, drivers, attendants.
Source: GHMC release coverage ↗
🏥 Treatment
Free & near-free hospitals
Government hospitals treat at free or nominal rates — and for eligible families, the big expenses are covered too (see the cover below). Start with your nearest Basthi Dawakhana for everyday illness.
Basthi Dawakhanas — free neighbourhood clinics
FREE📍 100+ clinics in bastis across the city
The closest free healthcare to home: MBBS doctor consultation, essential medicines and 57+ diagnostic tests — everything free. Immunisation, pregnancy care and BP/sugar screening included. Run by the Health Department, GHMC and NHM, roughly 9/10 AM–4 PM (timings vary by clinic).
Source: Peer-reviewed study (PMC) ↗
Osmania General Hospital
FREE📍 Afzal Gunj
The state's flagship government multispecialty hospital — emergency, medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, cardiology and more at free or nominal government rates.
Gandhi Hospital
FREE📍 Secunderabad
Secunderabad's premier government teaching hospital (~2,200 beds) — government-rate care across specialties, including cardiology and nephrology.
Niloufer Hospital — women & children
FREE📍 Red Hills, Lakdikapul
The city's main public hospital for children and mothers — paediatrics and newborn care at government rates.
MNJ Institute of Oncology — cancer care
FREE📍 Red Hills, Lakdikapul
The state's apex public cancer centre: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy free of cost for patients below the poverty line, plus palliative care. In 2026 it reported 250+ robotic cancer surgeries done free for weaker-section patients.
Government Fever Hospital
FREE📍 Nallakunta
The Sir Ronald Ross Institute — government care for fever and infectious/communicable diseases.
TB & Chest Hospital + Institute of Mental Health
FREE📍 Erragadda
Two government specialty hospitals side by side: TB and chest diseases (TB treatment under the national programme is free) and public psychiatric care — outpatient, inpatient and emergency.
Government Maternity Hospitals
FREE📍 Sultan Bazar · Petlaburj
Public maternity care — deliveries, antenatal and postnatal care at government rates.
Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital + Govt. ENT Hospital
FREE📍 Mehdipatnam · Koti
The government's specialty hospitals for eye care and for ear-nose-throat care, at government rates.
L V Prasad Eye Institute
FREE📍 Banjara Hills
One of the world's best-known eye institutes — and charitable at its core: LVPEI states that more than 50% of its services are provided entirely free to patients who cannot afford to pay, whatever the complexity.
Source: LVPEI (official) ↗
Sparsh Hospice — free palliative care
FREE📍 Khajaguda
For terminally ill patients, mainly cancer: an 82-bed hospice where all care — stay, medicines, food, home care — is completely free. There is no billing counter. Run by the Rotary Club of Banjara Hills Charitable Trust since 2011. Sy. No. 7/1/2, next to Oakridge International School, Khajaguda.
Source: Sparsh Hospice (official) ↗
💳 The cover that pays the big bills
Rajiv Aarogyasri + Ayushman Bharat — up to ₹10 lakh a year
Eligible families (Aarogyasri health card / BPL) get cashless treatment up to ₹10 lakh per family per year across 1,600+ procedures — heart surgery, cancer care, dialysis, transplants and more — at government and empanelled private hospitals. Carry your Aarogyasri/ration card and Aadhaar to the hospital help desk and ask for the Aarogyasri counter before admission.
Source: Govt. of Telangana — Rajiv Aarogyasri / Ayushman Bharat ↗
Know a free service we missed?
A free kitchen, a shelter, a clinic that treats the poor free — if it genuinely helps people in Hyderabad or Secunderabad, tell us and we will verify it and add it here, so the next person in need can find it.
💬 Tell us on WhatsAppCompiled by Happy Hyderabad on 20 October 2026 from official government, hospital and organisation sources (each entry links its source). Services, timings and eligibility can change — please confirm at the venue. This page is information, not a guarantee of admission. In an emergency, call 112.