A global nonprofit with roots in rural India has planted its newest flag in Stafford, opening a U.S. headquarters this week at 12603 Southwest Freeway that organizers say will anchor a push into Houston-area health care, hunger relief and job training. One World One Family opened the office on Thursday, bringing its tally of U.S. offices to 10.
The nonprofit describes itself as an India-based global organization, and its founder, Sri Madhusudan Sai, said Houston was chosen deliberately. According to Community Impact, Sai said leaders picked Greater Houston for its diversity, innovation and because the organization's leadership was already familiar with the region. The new office sits off the Southwest Freeway in Stafford, the same report notes.
A Tech Training Hub Moves In Alongside the Headquarters
The Stafford office space will also house a PeopleShores center, established in partnership with Houston Community College, per the same account. PeopleShores is designed to create jobs and provide training for underserved youth, with coursework planned in artificial intelligence, robotics and software engineering aimed at young adults who skipped expensive college routes, the outlet reports.
One World One Family's chief executive, Kimmell Joslin, framed the training center as part of a broader local strategy. The station's report notes Joslin hopes to partner with area businesses to create more job opportunities for underserved youth and wants to work with local nonprofits to expand their reach.
A Possible Free Clinic and Food Bank Partnership
Beyond job training, the organization says it is exploring health care access for Houston residents. Sai said members are working with Houston hospitals on the possibility of opening a free clinic, and in the meantime, the organization says it welcomes Houston patients to its established clinics in India for free treatment, per the same account.
On the hunger front, One World One Family plans to partner with the Houston Food Bank to address food and nutrition insecurity and to help provide scholarships to students in need, the report states. Sai was direct about the need driving that plan, saying, “Food insecurity does exist in Houston and inner city areas.”
Houston's Hunger Numbers Back Up the Concern
Sai's comment lines up with data gathered independently by local hunger-relief groups. The 2026 Map the Meal Gap study, based on 2024 figures, found that 19.4% of Texans — about 6,062,890 people — were experiencing food insecurity, up from 17.6% in the prior year's report, according to the Houston Food Bank. The same organization reported that calls to 211 Texas seeking food assistance rose 28.6% between February and June 2026, while referrals to food banks and pantries climbed nearly 37%, from 4,230 to 5,785.
Regionally, 18% of residents across the Houston Food Bank's 18-county service area — an estimated 1.44 million people — experienced food insecurity in 2024, up from 17% the year before, Axios reported. In Harris County specifically, the rate reached 20% in 2024, up from 18% in 2023. Axios also reported that the Houston Food Bank has distributed 15 million pounds of food monthly since November 2025, up from roughly 14 million pounds per month in the prior eight months, with new families seeking emergency assistance up about 10% year over year, according to the food bank's senior director of programs, Melanie McGuire.
Scaling Up From Mississippi to a Growing U.S. Footprint
Stafford is the latest stop in a steady U.S. expansion for One World One Family, which was founded in 2012. The organization began its U.S. expansion with a free clinic in Mississippi in 2019, and earlier in 2026 it opened offices in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, Community Impact reported.
Nationally, about 3,000 people work or volunteer with the organization, and Sai said he is now seeking more volunteers in the Houston area. The organization also points to large-scale programs overseas as evidence of its model, saying it provides breakfast to 10 million children every morning and that its cardiac hospitals have resulted in 45,000 free heart surgeries for children, alongside free values-based education, consultations and screenings, per the organization's figures cited in the report.
Those overseas claims echo reporting from The Hindu BusinessLine, which described the organization's Annapoorna Morning Nutrition Programme as having grown from feeding 50 children to serving more than 10 million government schoolchildren daily across 25 states and four Union Territories in India. A separate account from the same outlet detailed the organization's Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, a rural medical institution in Muddenahalli, Karnataka, which has logged more than 1.45 million outpatient consultations and over 41,800 surgeries since opening in October 2021, with every patient treated free of charge regardless of financial background.
For now, the Stafford office stands as the organization's latest bet that its global model can take root in Texas. Sai summed up the mission's guiding philosophy simply: “That's what the world needs—more than all the resources—is collective human kindness.”
