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CORPORATE OVERVIEW
The project was appreciated by the Pune Municipal Corporation’s cleanliness contest ‘Swachh Puraskar 2019-20’ in the Best Swachh private organisation category. The initiative stands true to our value of community involvement and active participation from our people for the good of the society at large.
FY 2019-20 PERFORMANCE oF pRoject SWachh neiGhBoURhood
15
States and 98 locations where cleanliness drives were conducted
609
Saplings planted
71 tonnes
Of waste removed
6,405
Volunteers, including our people, students, local community members and municipal authorities
to deliver food packets with necessary groceries.
LiveLihood SUppoRt dURinG COvId-19 PANdEMIC
Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) provides livelihood support to the visually challenged community and partners with multiple corporates for creating livelihood opportunities for them. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown affected people from these regions. We contributed `10 Lakhs, which will help 200+ visually challenged families, supporting their daily needs such as food, medicine and other essentials.
chote kadam, a commUnitY deveLopment initiative
We partnered with Parinaam Foundation, a non-profit organisation and our long-term strategic partner, to initiate and develop a community development programme for marginalised communities. Chote Kadam’s vision is to work alongside families, corporates, peers and knowledge partners to help transform neighbourhoods across India.
In this initiative, the residents of the selected neighbourhood collectively identifies the infrastructural projects that will improve the environment they live in as well as their quality of life. these projects range from fixing school buildings, renovation or construction of
public toilets, strengthening maternity clinics and primary health centres, providing solar lights and making available potable water, among others.
FLood ReLieF activitieS
In Karnataka, we helped 6,000 families in the relief centres of north and central parts of the state with foodgrain kits, clothes, bedsheets and groceries. In other regions like Mysuru and Nilgiri, we provided groceries and other daily essentials, sleeping mats, tarpaulin sheets and blankets.
In Maharashtra, the floods devastated the homes of people, especially in Kolhapur, Sangli and Icchalkaranji. We supported these families by providing them a set of utensils and blankets. Similarly, in Gujarat and Assam, we arranged
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