The CSR Journal

Wipro Limited has announced its commitment to achieving Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 in line with the objective of the Paris Agreement to cap temperature rise to 1.5°C. Wipro, while unveiling its pledge on Earth Day 2021, also set an intermediate target of a 55 per cent reduction in GHG emissions by 2030...

DXC Technology announced a CSR collaboration with ICT Academy, a not-for-profit initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the state Governments and Industries, to train 7,500 rural schoolteachers on digital teaching skills and 10,000 graduating women students on advanced IT skills. The Rural Teachers Empowerment Program will equip 7,500 schoolteachers with digital training...

Danone India and WWF India have announced a partnership to work together to enhance the ecological integrity of the Kali Bein Conservation Reserve with a focus on the Kanjli wetland in the Kapurthala district of Punjab. Working closely with key Government departments, civil society organizations, experts, communities, and industries, this three-year project will support...

The currency market is the largest financial system worldwide. Every day, over 5 trillion US dollars circulate between its participants — organizations and individuals. You, too, can make a profit buying and selling the right currency at the right time. Brokers provide flexible access to this gigantic marketplace. But which company should you trust? Overview...

Godrej Protekt, personal and home hygiene brand from Godrej Consumer Products Limited, embarked on a hygiene-based safe rail travel program in partnership with the Northern Railways zone of Indian Railways. This program, covering both passengers and railways staff, aims to boost hygiene quotient as well as equip them with hygiene solutions during their rail...

April 22nd is celebrated as Earth Day across the world to pledge support for environmental protection. The day is aimed at reaffirming the commitments and targets by organisations, governments and the world in general towards climate change. According to earthday.org, Earth Day aims to “build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change...

Forty four meritorious needy students in Goa will now be able to pursue higher professional studies through the Vedanta Utkarsh Scholarship programme. The scholarship was awarded to the selected scholarship candidates, at the hands of Dr. Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister of Goa. The Goa Chief Minister commended Vedanta's CSR programmes and urged students to take...

'Art for Freedom’ takes on the challenge to stop victim shaming and blaming. Encouraging students and artists from across cities to influence a positive change in society, the “Grand Virtual Art for Freedom Gallery’ was unveiled with diverse and bold art forms including, paintings, posters, animations, videos, poems, digital art, and even a rap...

Supporting the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, the CSR arm of Ambuja Cement, ACF has facilitated in vaccinating over 75,000 beneficiaries in Phase-2 of the national immunisation drive, including almost 70,000 at-risk community members, 621 frontline workers and staff of ACF. The Government of India rolled out the phase-wise COVID-19 vaccination programme in January 2021 to...

The Young Health Programme (YHP) is vaccine maker AstraZeneca's global community investment initiative focused on non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, delivered in partnership with Plan International and informed by research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. YHP aims to reduce the uptake of unhealthy behaviours in young people to improve their health outcomes...

Broadening social protection, investing in a sustained recovery, keeping goods and information flowing, and protecting environmental health will be key to emerging stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a flagship report released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) today. The theme study for the 77th session...

Samsung India has announced that it is adding smart classes to 80 new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools as part of its global Samsung Smart School CSR initiative, providing digital education to less-privileged students and fulfilling its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia by empowering the next generation of young India. With this addition, smart classes set up...