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HSC scholarship students of CSR arm of Allcargo Logistics score high

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Reaffirming its commitment to upholding the tenet of universal access to education, Avashya Foundation has been implementing the Allcargo Disha and Disha Career Seed projects to provide equal learning opportunities to deserving underprivileged students. The Maharashtra Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination (HSC) results announced recently bear testimony to this fact as students trained and supported by Avashya Foundation have performed exceedingly well in the examination.
Avashya Foundation had provided scholarships to 450 students in Mumbai for the academic year 2019-20. Out of 450 students, 26 students appeared for the HSC exam and passed the same with flying colours. Furthermore, a few students in the Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSC) scored 92% and 91%, respectively. Overall, girl students performed relatively better than the boys.
Girl students – Momin Mustak and Gulshan Shaikh of Bunts Sangha Arathi ShashiKiran Shetty Junior College Kurla, scored 80% and 84.3% respectively in the HSC exams. Coming from humble economic backgrounds, both the girls received scholarships under the Allcargo Disha project for continuing their education. Avashya Foundation has been instrumental in providing emotional support to them and their families along with career counselling and guidance. Both students have been consistently brilliant in their academic performance and aspire to become Chartered Accountants.
“Bringing students from underprivileged communities into the educational mainstream is the key to building an inclusive and egalitarian society. Access to education can also prove to be a pivotal factor in helping lay the foundation for the sustainable growth and development of the students and their future generations. Avashya Foundation will continue to spearhead several student-centric programs and learning initiatives to help children realize their potential and achieve great heights in life,” stated Arathi Shetty, Non-Executive Director, Avashya Foundation.
“The relentless determination to succeed against all odds and the grit to surpass all challenges distinguish these children from their peers. Avashya Foundation will be active in extending outreach to children from marginalized communities and handholding them in their efforts to achieve extraordinary levels of academic success and excellence,” stated Dr. Nilratan Shende, GM CSR, Allcargo Logistics.
Over the years, CSR of Allcargo Logistics has been instrumental in coordinating with the students, parents and school. The organization along with its volunteers played an enabling role in helping achieve the amazing success rate in the HSC exams. The Gold Culture team of Avashya Foundation also worked hard on motivating the students to achieve their best through thorough guidance and enthusiasm.

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SC dismissed Plea Against Excluding CM’s Relief Fund From Purview of CSR

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The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by TMC MP Mahua Moitra challenging a circular issued by the Central government excluding Chief Minister’s Relief Fund from the purview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan dismissed the plea observing that she had withdrawn a similar petition in May this year.
“You shouldn’t have filed it again after you withdrew a similar petition in May. In view of the fact that the matter was dismissed on May 5, we are not inclined to hear this plea. Dismissed,” the bench said.
The plea stated that there were disparities between PM CARES Fund and CM Relief Funds, with the corporate donations to only the former being allowed as CSR spends.
CSR is defined as a corporation’s sense of responsibility towards the community and environment by which a company entities visibly contribute to the social good.
The Supreme Court had on May 5 refused to entertain Moitra’s petition against the circular issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in April which directed that any donations made to the Chief Ministers’ Relief Fund will not qualify under the CSR expenditure of a company.
However, the circular said that donations made to the PM CARES Fund will qualify under CSR.
Source: ANI

Organ Donation Day 2020: Gift that keeps on giving

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Kasmin Fernandes
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Organ Donation Day 2020 is close. We will celebrate it on August 13th in gratitude of donors and by recipients like would-be engineer Shreya Siddanagowder. Back in 2016, she was a fiercely independent 18-year-old student, when her life changed course forever. She was travelling by a Volvo bus from Pune one early morning. The bus driver couldn’t navigate a wrong turn and ended up overturning the whole vehicle. The bus dragged for 100 meters in that position, jamming Shreya’s forearms in the process. She came out alive from the near-fatal accident but lost both her arms.
Prosthetics didn’t work. Bilateral amputees face many unique challenges. “Seeing the stumps where my hands were, every morning was agonising. I couldn’t do the most basic tasks… eating, wiping my nose. I couldn’t even sit up by myself,” she says. Shreya would have been condemned to a half-life if it wasn’t for a rare bilateral transplant almost a year later (it takes 8 months of healing before the operation can be attempted).

Hand transplant

This was possible only because of a young boy named Sachin, whose parents agreed to donate his organs after his demise. Not only did his arms make Shreya’s life (and body) whole again, Sachin continues to live on through six people who’ve received the precious gift of his organs: two kidneys, liver and two corneas (apart from his arms that were transplanted on Shreya).
Shreya before and after organ donation
Shreya before and after organ donation
The hand transplant was successful under the leadership of Dr. Subramania Iyer, Professor and HoD of Head and Neck Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. Shreya became the first person in Asia to receive an above-elbow hand transplant for both arms and the first girl in the world to receive male hands. After countless hours of physical therapy and immunosuppressants, Shreya was able ‘handle’ herself quite well. She’s able to carry out 85% of all the tasks she did before her accident.

Organ Donation Day 2020

Shreya is among the millions of people whose lives have been restored to normal because they found a donor. Organ Donation Day 2020 is all the more relevant since we are witnessing the fragility of the human body during the pandemic. Age and religion are no barriers to be an organ donor. In fact, only if you are under 18 years old do you need permission from parents or a guardian to sign up for organ donation.
There are many fears about this beautiful act of charity in people’s minds. The aim of Organ Donation Day 2020 is to clear misconceptions so that more people pledge to donate their precious organs after their death for the needy.
Did you know that 500,000 people die every year because of non-availability of organs? This number will reduce only if more people come forward to make a pledge. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has urged to come forth for the noble cause of saving lives like Shreya’s.
She is proud to have written her engineering semester exams all by herself this year, something she hadn’t pictured after the amputation. “My current handwriting matches my previous handwriting. It makes me think that our body is capable of anything, it’s our mind we have to convince,” she says. For able-bodied people out there, it’s your mind you have to convince to make a pledge for organ donation.

CSR News: Biocon joins hands with Akshaya Patra Foundation to help citizens during COVID-19

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History is witness to the global disruption that has been generated by the rapid spread of coronavirus. Besides being a health crisis, the pandemic also brought economic and business activities to a standstill in India. The collateral damage of this has been denial of livelihood and access to food for the economically challenged sections. It is at this inflexion point that Biocon, India’s largest, innovation-led biopharma company that is no stranger to corporate social responsibility (CSR), approached Akshaya Patra Foundation to collaborate in distributing dry ration kits to vulnerable groups in  Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Moreover, Biocon, quick to adapt to any situation, has been instrumental in developing testing kits and effective therapies for COVID-19. As a CSR Initiative, Biocon’s research arm Syngene International runs an ICMR-approved COVID-19 testing laboratory, using RT-PCR technology, to speed up affordable testing in Bengaluru.
Speaking on behalf of Biocon Foundation, Mission Director, Pratima Rao said, “Aligning with social causes has been fundamental to Biocon’s’ DNA and an integral part of the business model. We have been associated with Akshaya Patra Foundation for some time now. Initially, our primary agenda was to augment the supply of nutritious meals to schools and Anganwadi centres in Karnataka and Telangana. However, at a time when the country was battling a pandemic, the association was extended to reach relief efforts to underprivileged sections of society across several locations. As a further commitment, we will continue to invest in innovative and impactful CSR programmes in partnership with like-minded organisations, to improve the lives of the poor and marginalised communities.”
On the collaboration with Biocon Foundation, Shridhar Venkat, CEO, Akshaya Patra Foundation said, “We are deeply touched with the support we have received from Biocon Foundation during these unprecedented times. We appreciate Biocon for coming forward to collaborate with us in eliminating hunger from society.”
Incidentally, Akshaya Patra and associate foundations have served about 72 million meals to underprivileged sections of the society over the last four months.

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CSR News: Societe Generale commits over Rs. 50 million in support of those affected by Covid-19

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Since the beginning of the health crisis, Societe Generale has provided support in different countries of the world, namely in France and Africa. In India, Societe Generale has partnered with three of its currently supported NGOs: Action Against Hunger, Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled and VIDYA Integrated Development for Youth and Adults – to assist their programmes specifically aiming at supporting those in need during the COVID-19 crisis.
The funds will support frontline health professionals and hospitals to fight the virus, and also help vulnerable communities by providing them with essential hygiene and nutrition needs. More specifically, the CSR programmes are focusing on:
– supporting health professionals, community health and welfare workers and hospitals with medical gear to safeguard their health and protect them from contracting infections;
– giving essential items and creating awareness on safety through informational material delivered via phone and mobile vehicles making public announcements;
– providing those impacted by loss of earnings including migrant and daily wage workers, people with disabilities, pregnant women and elderly population with necessities;
– helping with mental wellness and counselling to families.
The importance of this financial support demonstrates the spirit and commitment of over 8,000 staff, joining Societe Generale and its Indian entities (Societe Generale Bank in Mumbai and Delhi, Societe Generale Securities India Pvt Ltd in Mumbai and Societe Generale Global Solution Centre in Bangalore and Chennai) to raise the total amount donated.
Antoine Castel, Chief Executive and Chief Country Officer of India, states: “As a Group, we are fully engaged and committed to our clients, partner associations and employees. Along with our NGO partners, we unite to alleviate the hardships of the frontline health professionals and the vulnerable communities who struggle during these times. Our gratitude also goes towards each person in our partner organisations who are on the ground implementing our CSR programmes to support those affected by this pandemic.”
Sunil Shah, CEO & Global Head, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre and Global Head, Societe Generale European Business Services, says: “This crisis has had a significant impact on vulnerable sections of society. Societe Generale’s commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) has always been strong, and our employees are active in volunteering and contributing to society. In this relief programme, our employees joined in mobilizing to raise funds and added to the contribution of the company. Through these CSR efforts and our partnership with NGOs, we hope to play a small role in alleviating the situation in the country.”

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First toll-free emotional support helpline for cancer patients and their families in Mumbai & Pune

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Cancer patients and their families in Mumbai and Pune can now dial in to Can-Helper – a first-of-its-kind toll-free helpline to provide support for fear, anxiety and stress-related to cancer. This service, operated by experienced counsellors, is available on a toll-free number 09511948920 on all days of the week from 10 am to 6 pm in English, Hindi and Marathi.
Whilst cancer impacts the emotional wellbeing of all patients, it is estimated that one out of every three cancer patients require interventions to address their emotional distress; the most common problems being anxiety and depression. These psychosocial problems have become even more acute in the lockdown due to lack of continuity of care, reduced social support, increased financial burden from loss of jobs etc.
Can-Helper (Cancer Helpline for Emotional Respite) was launched by Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai and Cipla Palliative Care & Training Centre Pune in association with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to address the specific psychosocial needs of cancer patients and their caregivers, especially those in an advanced stage of the disease.
Dr. Badwe, Director, Tata Memorial Centre said, “The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disastrous impact on all patients and especially those with serious chronic illnesses including advanced cancer. With this helpline, we hope to address psychosocial counselling needs to reduce the stress and anxiety of the patients and their family members. We will also include patient navigators in this endeavour to retain the continuum of care.”
Speaking about this initiative, Rumana Hamied, Trustee, Cipla Palliative Care & Training Centre said, “We realised the need for such a service when our home care team spoke to patients and families during COVID who told us about their fears of treatment being delayed, worries related to their family members due to lack of nursing care support and a growing sense of isolation and helplessness. We hope that callers to the helpline will be better equipped with resources, strategies and confidence to cope in these uncertain times.”
Psychosocial support has been identified as vital in decreasing the levels of stress, anxiety and depression in cancer patients.

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Hindustan Unilever CSR Creates Sustainable Communities in India

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Hency Thacker
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More than nine out of ten households in India use HUL products and the company does take this reach very seriously to achieve its sustainable goals. The company which was founded more than a century ago strives to make sustainable living commonplace. HUL has spent more than 500 crores on its CSR activities in the last 5 years and has always spent more than the amount mandated by the CSR law. 
The below video highlights the various CSR activities of Hindustan Unilever Limited
Company Spends Table
HUL Graph
Hindustan Unilever CSR spend for the last 5 years
Hindustan Unilever Limited works on the basis of The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan ( USLP) which envisages to decouple the company’s growth from its environmental footprint and increase its societal impact. the plan was launched in 2010 and is creating sustainable growth through the company’s world-famous brands and in the process cutting costs, reducing risks and building goodwill for the company.

The USLP has three big goals:

1. Improving health and well-being for more than 1 billion people
2. Reducing environmental impact by half
3. Enhancing livelihoods for millions 
HUL CSR has always spent more than the mandated 2% of the profits the company needs to spend as per section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Hindustan Unilever Limited uses its CSR funds to work on issues which plague India’s development. It has achieved huge successes in the areas of water conservation as well as tackling health and hygiene issues at the grassroots level.

1. Hindustan Unilever Foundation – The CSR arm of Hindustan Unilever Limited

Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF) is a not-for-profit company that acts as a vehicle to anchor water management related community development and sustainability initiatives of Hindustan Unilever Limited. HUF operates the ‘Water for Public Good’ programme, with specific focus to empower local community institutions to govern water resources and enhance farm-based livelihoods through the adoption of judicious water management practices. Since 2010, HUF has supported grassroots interventions in 53 districts with 23 NGO partners across over 4,300 villages in India.

2. CSR Policy

HUL is committed to operate and grow its business in a socially responsible way. Their vision is to grow their business whilst reducing the environmental impact of its operations and increasing the positive social impact.
This policy outlines HUL’s Corporate Social Responsibility agenda. Their aim is to achieve responsible growth and by encouraging people to take small everyday actions that will add up to make a big difference.
They work according to the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) which contributes to activities listed in the Schedule VII of Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. The USLP has three global goals namely help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and wellbeing, reduce the environmental footprint of its products and enhance the livelihoods of people as they grow their business.
Also, HUL has identified water as a key area of intervention. They focus in this area by creating capacities in conserving water through significant investments in partnership with relevant stakeholders with the objective of water conservation.
HUL’s CSR Policy is supported by the following principles:
1. We are committed to conducting our operations with integrity and respect, in the interest of our stakeholders, and in line with our Code of Business Principles.
2. We believe growth and environmental sustainability need not be conflicting. Our business model is designed to deliver sustainable growth. The inputs to the model are our brands, our people and our operations. The outputs to the model are sustained growth, lower environmental impact and positive social impact. The differentiator in our business model is our USLP and the goal of sustainable living.
3. We collaborate and engage with different stakeholders including Governments, NGOs, IGOs, Suppliers, Farmers, and Distributors to tackle the challenges faced by society.
In accordance with Section 135(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act), HUL is committed to spending at least 2% of its average net profits made during the three immediately preceding financial years in some of the identified activities that are listed in Schedule VII (as amended) to the Act. This will include the spends through activities undertaken by Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF), a not for profit subsidiary Company, aimed at building capacities to conserve water and to further community development initiatives.

2.1 CSR Committee

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee comprises:
1. Mr. O. P. Bhatt (Chairman)
2. Mr. Aditya Narayan
3. Dr. Sanjiv Misra
4. Ms. Kalpana Morparia
5. Mr. Sanjiv Mehta
6. Mr. Srinivas Phatak

3. Health and Hygiene

3.1 WASH ( Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) initiatives

1.3 million children under the age of five die in India due to diarrhoeal and other respiratory diseases. One of the most cost-effective solutions to fight against these diseases is hand washing which improves health and hygiene as well as reduces infant mortality. Lifebuoy – One of HULs biggest brands has taken a lead since 2010 and has reached out to over 72 million people in India through their CSR outreach initiatives. In 2019, this campaign impacted 1.6 million people through their on-ground handwashing behaviour change CSR programmes. 
The Lifebuoy ‘Help a Child Reach 5’ on-ground handwashing behaviour change programme was started in 2013 in Thesgora, a village in Madhya Pradesh that has one of the highest rates of childhood diarrhoea in India. This revolutionary initiative by HUL helped reduce the incidence of diarrhoea from 36% to 5%, and 26% more children were washing their hands before meals. 
Lifebuoy has partnered with GAVI ( Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative), Project Hope, Power of Nutrition and Bharat Scouts & Guides for making handwashing a regular habit among Indians.
‘Safal Shuruaat’, an innovative collaboration between Gavi and Lifebuoy was launched in 2017 to protect children under five from premature deaths in 14 districts of the state of Uttar Pradesh. This program uses short-films which are shown door-to-door in rural areas to increase awareness about WASH. This HUL CSR initiative has reached 1.5 million people till date and plans to reach 2.5 million people by the end of 2020.

3.2 Nutrition

Processed food gets a bad rap whenever it comes to nutrition and HUL being one of the largest producers of processed food is no stranger to this phenomenon. Their quest for sustainability includes making their products meet the highest nutritional standards. in India, 50% of the company’s food portfolio already meets the highest nutrition standards. 

Higher intake of Salt has been labelled as one of the biggest contributors to ill-health and thus HUL took this problem by the horns and committed in 2010 that they will reduce salt levels to 6g per day. After achieving this milestone, they made another commitment to reducing the amount of salt to 5g per day in their food portfolio and 75% of their food portfolio will meet these levels. the company set similar goals to remove Trans Fat and Sugar from its foods. 100% of their food and refreshment portfolio is virtually free from trans fats originating from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. In 2010, the company envisaged that they need to reduce the level of sugar in their products and by 2020 they committed to reduce an additional 25% sugar in ready-to-drink teas. They beat their own expectations by reducing the sugar by 28% in ready-to-drink teas.
It is no wonder then that HUL has been ranked number 1 in the India Access to Nutrition Spotlight Index 2020 among the top 16 largest F&B companies.

3.3 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

HUL CSR’s ‘Swachh Aadat, Swachh Bharat’ programme works in line with the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission to promote good health and hygiene practices. They focus on the adoption of three clean habits:
1. Washing Hands five times a day
2. Using a toilet for defecation
3. Adopting safe drinking water practices.
4,000 employees from 25 factories of HUL have taken on the role of Swachhata Doots and educate their communities to adopt better WASH habits. They have reached out to 21 million people through this CSR sustainable programme.

3.4 AshaDaan

The initiative began in 1976 when HUL supported Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to set up Asha Daan, a home in Mumbai for abandoned and challenged children, HIV-positive patients and destitute people. It provides care to over 400 people including infants, destitute men and women and HIV-positive patients. HUL is currently working on re-developing the home with the objective to provide better facilities that will lead to better care for the centre’s inmates.

4. Environment – HUL CSR reducing the environmental impact of its activities

4.1 Sustainable Operations

Hindustan Unilever Limited under the USPL wants sustainable operations as the backbone of the company’s growth in the future. They set ambitious goals and have been achieving their way before the deadline.
The company has operations all over the country and hence has a huge impact on the environment through its logistics and last-mile delivery to the stores. They reduced their CO2 emissions from their logistics network by a whopping 14% in 2019.
They have also rolled out environment-friendly freezer cabinets that use hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants instead of Hydrofluorocarbons refrigerants. There are currently 112,826 freezers with HC technology in their fleet in India. They have successfully reduced CO2 emissions per tonne of their production by 85% compared to 2008. As part of USLP, Unilever has also made a global commitment to eliminate coal from the energy mix by 2020. In India, only three HUL sites are still using coal which is in the process of migrating to use a biomass boiler for energy.

4.2 Water Conservation

HUL has been successful in reducing the usage of water by almost 60% since 2008. They are using advanced initiatives like reduction in freshwater abstraction, implementation of captive rainwater harvesting.

HUL CSR Water Conservation

Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF) operates the ‘Water for Public Good’ programme, with specific focus to empower local community institutions to govern water resources and enhance farm-based livelihoods through the adoption of judicious water management practices. Since 2010, HUF has supported grassroots interventions in 53 districts with 23 NGO partners across over 4,300 villages in India.
In 2019, the cumulative and collective achievements delivered through partnered programs of HUF include:
– Water conservation: More than 980 billion litres of water conserved through improved supply and demand water management
– Crop yield: Generation of over 960,000 tons of additional agricultural and biomass production
– Livelihoods: More than 10 million employment days created through water conservation and increased agriculture production
By 2024, HUF has an ambitious target of creating an additional water potential of 1.5 trillion litres of water in India. Going by the track record of HUL CSR, it goes without saying that the company will achieve this goal way before time.

5. Project Shakti – HUL CSR empowering women to empower the nation

Project Shakti skills rural women in villages across India to nurture an entrepreneurial mindset and become financially independent. In an attempt to provide regular income, these women entrepreneurs (called Shakti Ammas) are trained on basic principles of distribution management and familiarisation with the company’s products. 
HUL’s team of Rural Sales Promoters (RSPs) coach these women Shakti entrepreneurs by educating them about HUL products in order to manage their businesses better and become effective salespersons. These skills include the basics of the products as well as training them to have better soft skills of negotiation and communication.
Project Shakti has nearly 1.20 lakh women micro-entrepreneurs across 18 states and has helped generate income by selling HUL’s products thereby creating a huge positive impact on the livelihoods of women and literally giving them Shakti.

6. Project Prabhat – Hindustan Unilever Corporate Social Responsibility creates sustainable communities 

Project Prabhat focuses on engaging with and contributing to the rural communities around Hindustan Unilever Limited’s key sites, such as factories, branches and depots.
Project Prabhat focuses on bringing about a real change in the communities around Hindustan Unilever Limited’s key sites by bringing about sustainable development of the entire area which are mostly villages and distant towns.

HUL CSR Project Prabhat

Imparting skills to the rural communities that lead to employability and income generation, Project Prabhat by HUL CSR has been able to bring about a positive change at the grassroots level. Prabhat nurtures the entrepreneurial mindset to increase the average income of women and young through job-ready skills in different vocations.
In 2019, Prabhat went one step further and launched a first-of-its-kind centre in Kolkata wherein Persons with Disability (PwDs) would be trained to become e-commerce professionals. By linking artisans to the digital world of e-commerce through trained Prabhat beneficiaries, the centre in Kolkata helps enhance livelihoods
Prabhat has partnered with NGOs such as LabourNet, Development Alternatives, Yusuf Meherally Centre, and Mann Deshi Foundation. These collaborations are in the vocations of beauty & hair care, tailoring, retail sales, electricals, etc. to offer training across 19 locations. These Livelihood Centres run with the help of Hindustan Unilever Limited’s CSR funds have provided enrolment to 75754 people, has certified 65970 people, and created jobs for over 41841 people across the country.
More than 5,000 HUL employee volunteers have participated in the volunteering activities under Project Prabhat in the last seven years.

7. COVID-19 relief – #HULStandsWithTheNation

HUL has one of the deepest distribution channels in India and reaches almost all pin codes. Thus, it touches the lives of millions of Indians every day. When the COVID-19 pandemic reached India, HUL pledged and the amount of Rs.100 crores to help the administration fight Coronavirus. HUL also donated 29 ventilators to government hospitals in Maharashtra.

HUL CSR COVID-19

HUL announced that it was dropping the prices of its care and hygiene brands – Lifebuoy sanitiser & hand wash and Floor Cleaners by 15% so that everyone has access to these products during such difficult times. HUL also donated 2 crore units of Lifebuoy soaps to the marginalised sections of the society as they are the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic and also lack the resources to fight this deadly virus.
In a unique partnership with Hospitals and other healthcare institutions, HUL provided free supplies of sanitation and hygiene products.
The company donated masks worth Rs. 13 Crore to the government of Maharashtra, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Metropolis Labs and Apollo Hospitals as a part of its 100 crore donation for COVID-19. To ensure safety, Lifebuoy sanitisers have been given to local police in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Chennai, Indore and Bangalore.
HUL in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), distributed sanitation and hygiene products to sanitation workers across 15 cities in India including Mumbai. They distributed Lifebuoy Soaps to 40,000+ Sanitation Workers across Mumbai and also distributed hygiene and sanitation products to about 13 hospitals in Mumbai.
Through Project Prabhat, HUL CSR is supporting 1,00,000 migrant labour families by donating food kits and essential hygiene products.

8. Awards

CSR initiatives of the Hindustan Unilever Limited have received multiple awards over the years. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce awarded HUL the ‘Corporate Citizen Award’ in 2018-19. HUL was bestowed with a special award for its contribution to the Government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission and efforts towards effective plastic waste management by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Also, Project Shakti, the pioneering initiative by HUL CSR, won the highly commended innovative project at the Finance for the Future Awards, 2019.

Conclusion 

The brands and products of Hindustan Unilever Limited are present in every household in India and the company takes this responsibility very seriously. Through its sustainable operations and CSR initiatives, HUL has ensured that the company is not only the biggest FMCG company but also a company with the biggest heart.

Indian philanthropists set up Migrants Resilience Collaborative platform (MRC)

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The CSR Journal
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India’s leading philanthropists have come together to introduce the Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC), India’s largest grassroots-led multi-stakeholder collaborative of nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sector actors committed to ensuring safety, security, and mobility for vulnerable migrant families across India.
Launched by Ashif Shaikh, co-Founder, Jan Sahas, a leading NGO who that been working with migrant communities over the last decade to ensure their social protection and safe migration, the MRC has an ambitious goal to reach out to over 10 million migrant workers and their families in 100 districts and cities pan India over the next 5 years.
Committed to delivering social security entitlement, providing access to responsible recruitment and strengthening tracking, worker protections, welfare and redressal, the Steering Committee comprising of some of India’s leading philanthropists and leaders with deep experience across sectors like Ashif Shaikh (Co-Founder Jan Sahas), Vidya Shah (CEO, EdelGive Foundation), Anu Aga (Former Chairperson, Thermax Limited), Rati Forbes (Director, Forbes Marshall Group), Arun Maira (Former Member, Planning Commission of India), Kumar Gera (Chairman, Gera Developments Pvt. Ltd), Lalita Vadia (former migrant worker) will lead and guide MRC’s strategy.
Jan Sahas, along with strategic partners – Global Development Incubator and EdelGive Foundation, is working with a wide range of partners and advisors to strengthen strategies for MRC to implement. The strategic partners will provide support to the collaborative on Collaborative strategy, design and governance; program strategy and design; fundraising, external stakeholder engagement and partner management.
“While the civil society, philanthropies, private and Govt. sector coalesced to provide immediate relief to migrant community, there is a crying need to transition from relief to focusing on core needs of migrant workers to build medium to long-term resilience as the country prepares for the long road to economic recovery and the possibility of multiple waves of COVID. MRC is an endeavour to address these needs,” said Ashif Shaikh.
“In the wake of the on-going pandemic, it has become critical to address the long road of recovery and resilience we foresee, particularly for communities such as migrant workers that are most vulnerable to such calamities. Through the Migrant Resilience Collaborative, we hope to enable access to entitlements and responsible recruitment for our migrant workers, alongside strengthening initiatives towards their welfare and protection. At EdelGive Foundation, we are committed to supporting the collaborative and urge others to join us in our mission to support this community further,” said Vidya Shah.
“Economists consider workers as commodities in ‘labour markets’ to be bought and sold for a price. And employers sadly treat them only as resources—to be used and discarded when not required. This must change because workers are human beings with citizens’ rights in society,” said Arun Maira.
In last few months, Jan Sahas has facilitated relief for more than 1 million families across 19 states, working with 40 CBOs and 40 donors; contributed 1 million of the 4 million worker connects for Govt’s skill mapping initiative and facilitated BOCW registration for over 58,000 workers.

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Jubilant Life Sciences donates 1000 vials of COVID-19 medicine Remdesivir to UP CM

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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath received Remdesivir (‘JUBI-R’) from Shyam S. Bhartia, Chairman, Jubilant Life Sciences Limited. This COVID-19 medicine was researched at Jubilant’s Noida R&D facilities.
On the occasion, Shri Yogi Adityanath said, “Remdesivir is an effective medicine in the treatment of severe COVID-19 cases. In this critical situation, I am pleased that this medicine was made available by Jubilant in the quick time of two and a half months.”
Jubilant has a large presence in UP. The CM also invited Jubilant to make further investments and look at the opportunities in the pharmaceutical sector. In May 2020, Jubilant entered into a non-exclusive Licensing Agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc., that granted it the right to register, manufacture and sell Gilead’s investigational drug Remdesivir in 127 countries including India.
Jubilant, recently launched Remdesivir injection under the brand name ‘JUBI-R’ in the Indian market. The drug is being made available to over 1,000 hospitals providing COVID-19 treatment in India through the Company’s distribution network. Remdesivir is the only antiviral drug that has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the USFDA for treatment of suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19.
“It gives us immense pleasure and satisfaction to present ‘JUBI-R’ the life-saving medicine to Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath. We are delighted to support the Uttar Pradesh Government in its fight against COVID-19 by donating 1000 vials of JUBI-R (Remdesivir) through our CSR arm, the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation. We are thankful to the Uttar Pradesh Government for its support in producing this critical drug in a short span of time. Jubilant Life Sciences remains committed to the cause of providing leading healthcare solutions addressing the needs of the patients,” said Shyam S. Bhartia, Chairman, Jubilant Life Sciences Limited.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Journey towards Digitalisation Start with Installation of Optical Fibre

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Hency Thacker
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As India moves towards digitalisation slowly but surely, it is important that internet penetration occurs in every nook and corner of the country. This is the only way the country can ensure inclusive growth and development.
Internet is a basic necessity in today’s digital age. It is in fact recognized as Fundamental Right in many countries across the world. While India does not recognize it as a Fundamental Right, it records the fastest rate of internet penetration and most number of smartphone users in the world. This has been achievable because of the extremely low rates of smartphones as well as data in the country. In fact, India provides the cheapest internet in the world.
Meeting another milestone in digitalisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first-ever undersea optical fibre cable project for Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The project will provide high-speed broadband connections in the remote islands at par with services in the mainland.
The foundation for 2,312-km Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI) connecting submarine optical fibre cable project was laid earlier on December 30, 2018. The project will provide internet connectivity to islands including Swaraj Dweep (Havlock), Long Island, Rangat, Little Andaman, Kamorta, Car Nicobar and Greater Nicobar, besides Port Blair.
According to official data, internet with a speed of 400 gigabytes (Gb) per second will be provided at Port Blair and for other islands, it will be 200 Gb per second. The project has been completed before time, as claimed by the PM at the inauguration. The work of laying undersea cable has been executed by BSNL in a record time of fewer than 24 months. This project will give a boost to 4G mobile services and digital services like tele-education, telehealth, e-governance services and tourism on the islands

Benefits of the Optical Fibre Link in the Islands

1. The optical fibre link will allow all the telecom operators in the country to provide their mobile and broadband services in the Union Territory. This will further promote Ease of Living for the island dwellers.
2. Internet availability will also promote the tourism sector which will improve the economic conditions of the islands.
3. The standard of living of island dwellers will be improved as with the access to the internet, they will be able to acquire skills and education and in return, share their indigenous knowledge regarding biodiversity and living in harmony with nature.
4. Internet access will also improve the banking habits of the island dwellers which will contribute significantly to the country’s economy
5. Most importantly, with the rising presence of China in the Indian Ocean Region, internet access in the islands will improve the connectivity with mainland Indian and ease the vigilance over the area, thus providing the country with a strategic benefit.
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