The Hidden Road Initiative is a recognized, Internal Revenue Service 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The organization is largely student-run operating from UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. The goal of the organization is to connect roads and bridge issues between underprivileged students in Armenian villages and the rest of the world. In efforts of realizing its motto, the members of HRI provide humanitarian aid to underprivileged villages in Armenia, hold annual educational summer-camps for village children, and initiate and carry out annual special-projects, such as scholarship distributions, constructions, and renovations.