The CSR Journal

Harpic under its flagship initiative ‘Mission Swachhta aur Paani’ started the week with an 8-hour long telethon on World Toilet Day showcasing its commitment towards safer toilets for all and the need for a behavioural shift towards clean and hygienic toilets. After three successful years of Harpic’s biggest long-term campaign, the initiative is pivoting...

Delhi, India: Global healthcare company Abbott has committed to upgrading 75 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) to Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) across nine States in India in partnership with Americares India Foundation, a health-focused relief and development organization. The HWC program, supported by an Abbott grant of about Rs 200 million (U.S.$2.4 million), will serve...

Schbang, the creative and technology company, is quietly but actively doing its bit to contribute to social impact. The foundation aims to serve the educational and technological revolution of India by empowering learners by creating a holistic learning environment and enabling opportunities. It also aims to identify and nurture talent in marginalised communities. In an...

Cadila Pharmaceuticals, one of the oldest and largest privately-held pharma companies in the country, organised an anaemia awareness and detection drive in three villages of the Ahmedabad district. Aimed at creating awareness about anaemia and detecting anaemia cases, the drive was organised in Bhat, Kasindra, and Mota Chhapra villages of Ahmedabad from November 21 to...

Puducherry, a colony of the French until 1954, is a union territory (UT) of India known for its heritage and culture. The influence still persists in the region with many native residents of Puducherry still speaking French and living on French cuisine. The coastal union territory is a tourism hotspot for Indians and foreigners...

Kutch is the largest district in India. It is, in fact, larger than some of the smaller states of the country. The region is mostly arid, with a major part of it covered by the salt desert. The world knew about Kutch because of the natural disasters it has to bear ever so often....

Pune, India: Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Quick Heal, the leading cybersecurity service provider 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...

Bengaluru, India: Herbalife Nutrition Ltd., United Way of Bengaluru (UWBe), and the Noolpuzha Gram Panchayat have come together with a vision to ensure integrated development of the Noolpuzha Gram Panchayat, Wayanad's second largest tribal belt. This integrated rural development program, called 'Rural Rising', is a flagship intervention of UWBe, built on a 'convergence model' where the...

New Delhi, India: As part of United for Financial Health, Experian’s global corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, 50,000 lower income women could improve their quality of life by gaining financial literacy and management skills through Project Laxmi, a financial literacy programme run by Srujna Charitable Trust, which empowers women impacted by poverty. Experian, the world’s...

Climate change has emerged as the biggest global challenge in the 21st century. The world is increasingly warming up, a major reason being fossil fuel emissions like oil, gas and coal caused by humans. In such a situation, controlling the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the need of the hour. While...

Unacademy, India’s largest learning platform, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Rajasthan Council of School Education, Department of Education, Govt of Rajasthan to enable Government students to prepare for various competitive exams. Unacademy will offer 1500 Learners subscription based scholarships to help them achieve their goals. Unacademy will identify...

Mumbai, India: Under its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Khara donated two Cardiac life-saving ambulances to Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar’s The Art of Living and Maratha Mandir’s Babasaheb Gawde Charitable Hospital in Vile Parle (East).The function took place at the Circle’s office in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. The initiative was...