The CSR Journal

Maharashtra: Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), the philanthropic arm of Honeywell India, and Swades Foundation, a non-profit organization that has been uplifting communities in rural Maharashtra, have entered into a three-year partnership to create a holistic rural development program to empower rural communities in Raigad and Nasik districts of Maharashtra. In the first year,...

Mumbai, Maharashtra: Standard Chartered Bank is partnering with Anuprayaas and Samarthanam Trust for making 30 Railway stations across India accessible for people with disabilities by providing a host of facilities. This is under the Bank’s “Seeing is Believing” initiative which tackles avoidable blindness and visual impairment. This project aims to aid people with visual disabilities,...

Lata Mangeshkar, the legendary singer breathed her last on Sunday, Feb 6th 2022, after a prolonged illness at the age of 92. The Bharat Ratna Awardee singer was muse to some of the country’s greatest music composers. Talking about his inspiration for making music, the celebrated music composer S.D. Burman had once allegedly said,...

India is considered a diabetes capital of the world. Some 77 million live with diabetes, an equal number are said to be undiagnosed and a similar number pre-diabetic. In metros 3 out of 4 adults are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Indians get diabetes 10 years earlier than people in the West, in their 30s/40s. Since...

Khula Aasman Trust (KA) is a registered NGO that was founded in the year 2013. The intention is to use the power of expressive arts to bring positive change and transformation in communities. Since then the organisation based in Maharashtra has focused its work with the incarcerated population, rescued women, children in conflict with law,...

This World Cancer Day, AstraZeneca, a science-led biopharmaceutical company, and Plan India, an NGO striving to improve the lives of millions of children and young people, signed an MoU to expand its ‘Young Health Programme’ (YHP) in the state of Karnataka after tremendous success over the past 10 years in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Non-communicable...

Sustainability considerations now influence the majority of the world’s grocery shoppers when buying packaged foods such as potato chips and cookies, according to Cargill’s most recent global FATitudes™ survey. The proprietary research finds 55% of consumers indicate they’re more likely to purchase a packaged food item if it includes a sustainability claim, a four-point...

Aster DM Healthcare, one of the largest integrated healthcare providers in GCC & India, today announced that it has been ranked at no. 94 in the world's 100 most sustainable corporations in the 2022 Global 100 ranking by Corporate Knights, one of the world's most valued and transparent sustainability ratings. Aster is the only listed...

Tetra Pak, a world leading food processing and packaging solutions company, is acknowledged the world over for its commitment to environmental sustainability. On this journey towards building a more sustainable planet, Tetra Pak India has launched the “Go nature. Go Carton.” campaign to draw attention towards climate change and the company’s efforts to address...

Grundfos, a global leader in advanced pump solutions and water technologies, and EKF Denmark’s Export Credit Agency have entered into an agreement enabling Grundfos to finance projects globally for private commercial and public customers with limited funds available. The agreement is the first of its kind in the pump solutions industry. It creates new opportunities...

Potentially ‘game changing’ findings of a newly published study on the River Ganga could be used to help tackle pollution in large bodies of water and protect precious water resources around the world. Water quality in rivers is affected by underpinning ‘natural’ hydrogeological and biogeochemical processes, as well as interactions between people and their environment...

Muthoot Finance donated fully automated electric wheelchairs worth Rs. 45,000 each, under the patronage of Muthoot Snehasancharini Project to a group of persons with special abilities in Bengaluru. The CSR initiative was taken in a bid to improve the lives of specially-abled people especially belonging to the financially weaker sections of the society. K. J....