Ingersoll Rand partners with Sankara Eye Hospital on ‘gift of vision’
As part of its social convergence initiative, Ingersoll Rand has partnered with Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, for a community rural outreach programme called Gift of Vision. The programme with a special focus on preventive and curable blindness will help economically disadvantaged people in remote
LG recognized by United Nations for emission reduction efforts
LG Electronics (LG) has become the world’s first to receive Certified Emission Reduction (CER) credits in the appliance industry, awarded by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project encouraged by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established at the Kyoto Protocol, the
Shubh Aarambh by Mondelez India
Mondelez India announced its national community initiative Shubh Aarambh to address the development needs of children by promoting healthy and active lives. The programme is expected to impact close to 200,000 beneficiaries across 5 states over the next 3 years. Shubh Aarambh
Lupin to focus on combating tuberculosis in Mumbai
Pharma major Lupin along with Rotary Club, Mumbai, announced a joint anti-TB campaign – on 24 March, marked as World TB Day – to create awareness about TB as well as detect and combat the disease in Mumbai. Under this campaign, TB camps
Kissa yoni ka – the vagina monologues
The men and women of Dharavi, the world’s largest slum, were quite curious about Kissa Yoni Ka, the Hindi translation of The Vagina Monologues, which they heard was a bold play about a never-spoken-about part of the woman’s body. As the performance started
The northeast region gets its CSR Hub
Inaugurating a corporate social responsibility centre – The CSR Hub – at Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) in Guwahati, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Giriraj Singh expressed his hope that corporate groups would contribute towards economic development of
MSDE, Wadhwani Foundation and NSDC in partnership to promote skill development and entrepreneurship
Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Wadhwani Foundation have announced a partnership aimed to catalyse Government of India’s new initiatives on skill development and entrepreneurship. Key areas of collaboration include creating specific programmes on entrepreneurship education
SABIC Partners CIPET for skill development in India
Leading petrochemical company SABIC has entered into a partnership with Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), under the department of chemicals and petrochemicals, ministry of chemicals and fertilizers, with the aim of developing capacity in the plastics processing industry in India.
LG comes out well in Global 100 Sustainability Index
LG Electronics has been named one of the world’s most sustainable corporations in its industry sector in the 2015 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World Index by Corporate Knights. The company has also been recognized as the most sustainable in 2015 Sustainability Yearbook
Conversations around CSR: Vijay Chadda, CEO, Bharti Foundation
‘We not only run these schools, we also engage with local communities. We ensure that parents are motivated to send their children, especially girls, to schools.’ Some of the programmes that are helping build the lives of thousands of underprivileged children across the