The CSR Journal

From devices to home appliances and soon even entire cities, everything around us is getting smarter. The concept of a smart city, which involves energy-efficient ecosystems that can reduce carbon emissions, save energy, and provide better lives, are no longer a thing of the distant future. However, it’s worth noting that since the building...

Industry leader and philanthropist, Mr Anil Agarwal, Chairman of the Vedanta Group, India’s leading producer of metals, minerals and oil & gas, has been conferred with the coveted Philanthropy Award at the Asian Business Awards 2021. The award has been given for the outstanding work done through his charitable foundation, ‘Anil Agarwal Foundation’, which...

In its endeavour to give back to society, ICICI Lombard, one of the leading non-life insurance companies in India, will offer support for the treatment of underprivileged individuals suffering from critical illness. With this initiative, ICICI Lombard will seek voluntary support in the form of donations from customers during policy purchases or renewal. ICICI...

Climate change is impacting the life of every individual in one or another manner. We read about its impacts, causes and question our leaders about the actions being taken to prevent it. We often wonder, how can we contribute in fighting against this. The answer is – crowdfunding. Several environment, waste management and pollution control...

Humans are complex creatures, and they carry many rare and intricate disorders. For example, Gitelman Syndrome is a rare genetic kidney disorder. This disorder would create an imbalance of ions (charged atoms) in the body. Those include potassium, calcium, chlorine, magnesium, sodium ions.  The signs and symptoms of this disease generally come to prominence in...

WOTR, a Pune-based development organisation dedicated to poverty eradication through sustainable ecosystem based adaptation, and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, along with other partners have launched the ECOBARI (Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Resilient Income) collaborative. The new initiative is aimed at helping marginalized communities to increase their income while conserving local biodiversity, restoring, and managing...

Pablo Picasso once said, “All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” Most education models, however, remain oblivious to the importance of feeding a child’s creativity and imagination as they focus primarily on rote learning. Rajesh Bhatia, whose chain of virtual play schools, TreeHouse Education makes use...

Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. The company takes its responsibility towards the environment and society at large very seriously. In its latest CSR report, the company has briefed about its actions towards social and environmental development in the last financial year....

Under the initiative of 3M India, VaccineOnWheels and United Way Bengaluru are supporting Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation with their COVID immunization drive since August 2021. In less than 3 months, this initiative has administered more than 15,000 COVID vaccinations to underprivileged population in slum areas, using 2 mobile Vaccination Clinics from VaccineOnWheels, with UWBe...

Harpic Mission Paani launched India’s first-ever ‘Sanitation for All Pledge and Preamble: Clean Water, Sustainable Sanitation’ with Honourable Minister of Jal Shakti – Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and five prominent women leaders: lyricist Kausar Munir, hockey player Savita Punia, cricketer Smriti Mandhana, table tennis star Bhavina Patel and Olympic medalist & boxer Lovlina Borgohain at...

Children supported by St. Jude India ChildCare Centres (St. Judes) during their cancer treatment (who are now cancer-free for 5 years), will be provided health and accident coverage by Chennai-based Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited. Launched on November 4th 2021, it covers 596 children in its first year . Each year at least...

Given the ongoing pandemic and increasing impact of climate change, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference was critical as world leaders deliberated on climate action to forge consensus on climate change mitigation strategies. At the conference, India promised to achieve carbon neutrality by 2070. While the promise is to work towards the long-term goal,...