Category: NGO

 Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, will be celebrating the first anniversary of its sustainability initiative Green Yodha.  The initiative targeted at building collective climate action through conscious citizens, businesses, and institutions reached over 10 million individuals & businesses in the last 1 year. It adopted a segment wise outreach approach and created awareness with companies operating in Power & Grid, Consumer Products & Goods, Mobility and Water and Water Waste Management etc. through varied digital and on ground initiatives. In the maiden year large number of organizations including JK…

Quick Heal, through its CSR initiative donated ‘Arogya Yan’, a fully equipped medical van, to the rural community in Barpeta, Assam. In collaboration with Srijan Ek Soch, a local NGO, this initiative aims at making basic treatment and necessary testing accessible for the marginalized. The special handing over ceremony was attended by Geeta Shree, ADM, Barpeta; Disha Shrivastava, CEO, Srijan Ek Soch; Anupama Katkar, Chairperson, Quick Heal Foundation along with the guest of honor, Bikram Jyoti Das, a visually-impaired mountaineer who recently made a successful climb to Everest Base Camp. This state-of-the-art fully equipped medical…

Amazon and National Association of the Blind UP (NAB) have come together to introduce Echo smart speakers in over 100 schools so that students can benefit from an interactive learning experience with the Alexa voice service. More than 34,000 students, with and without disabilities, from schools and Bachpan day care centres where the NAB state branch runs its inclusive education program will benefit from this initiative. SK Singh, Managing Trustee, National Association of Blind UP Head says, “By having Alexa in classrooms, teachers have noticed a substantial increase in attendance in…

As part of its commitment to supercharge the progress of local communities where it operates, HCLTech is scaling up its CSR initiatives in the Americas. The Company announced new partnerships with leading charitable organizations – Girl Up, Feeding America and One Tree Planted – to contribute to efforts that address some of the most pressing development challenges, which include education and gender equality, food insecurity and climate change.   Girl Up: Created by the United Nations Foundation, Girl Up is a girl-centered leadership development initiative with the goal of advancing gender justice…

The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu graced and addressed a conference of Women’s Self Help Groups in Bhopal today (November 16, 2022). Speaking on the occasion, the President said that to make India self-reliant and developed nation, maximum participation of women is essential. We have to create such an environment in which women feel free and fearless and can make full use of their potential. The President urged women to inspire each other, help each other, raise their voices together for each other’s rights, and move forward together on the…

IWill, India’s leading mental-health platform has received a new grant from Microsoft’s ‘AI for Accessibility’ program to accelerate building its inclusive and effective Hindi-based AI Mental Health conversational program for more than 615 million Hindi-language users in the world. The grant awarded to IWill will help the budding firm in its meticulous efforts to reduce this widening gap in India and overseas – specifically for Hindi language users, given that Hindi is the 3rd-most spoken language in the world. As per WHO, nearly 1 billion people live with a mental…

This Diwali was different for many cities in India. The usual noise of crackers heard around Diwali was replaced by ‘Humein Garv Hai’ song and chants of Hara Geela Sookha Neela on roads and in community lanes as mobile vans and carts with two bins went door-to door collecting segregated waste. Over 75 lakh students from nearly 45,000 schools from across India took part in the in what may be termed a massive awareness campaign on segregating wet and dry waste at source initiated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)…

Salesforce has collaborated with GiftAbled, an organization that empowers people with disabilities; Skillible, an upskilling platform to help women start or restart their careers post a long break and the Pride Circle Foundation, a non-profit that works actively to uplift, and empower the LGBTQIA+ community in India. These collaborations aim to strengthen Salesforce India’s commitment to ensuring inclusion and diversity in the Salesforce ecosystem. These partnerships collectively aim to skill 1000+ people by 2023. Leveraging Trailhead, Salesforce’s online learning platform, GiftAbled, Skillible and The Pride Circle Foundation will empower participants to skill up with globally recognized credentials,…

This Diwali, POCO is extending gratitude to the Police force of Karnataka for their selfless efforts towards public safety. Acknowledging their heroic and caring spirit towards the nation, the company shared a box of appreciation and happiness with the force. Commenting on this activity, Himanshu Tandon, Country Head of POCO India said, “As a consumer-first brand, we have always kept the needs of our fans and community at the centre of everything that we do. Being a responsible brand, it is our duty to take lead in recognising the efforts of the unsung heroes of…

GURUGRAM – Samsung Electronics today announced its new environmental strategy, a comprehensive effort to join global efforts to tackle climate change. It includes commitments to achieve enterprise-wide net zero carbon emissions and plans to use more renewable energy, as well as to invest in and research new technologies to develop energy-efficient products, increase water reuse and develop carbon capture technology. At the heart of the new commitment is achieving net zero carbon emissions (Scope 1 & Scope 2) for all operations in the Device eXperience (DX) Division by 2030, and across…