Education and Skill Training

IBM is recognizing three teams from India in its annual Volunteer Excellence Awards for their innovative work in making education more accessible during the pandemic being innovative in their community volunteering during 2020. The CSR initiatives and people being recognized include a 10-person team providing remote mentoring for girl students, a 43-member team that recorded...

The second wave of COVID-19 has been particularly disastrous for India. The healthcare systems have crashed and people have been losing their lives at a great speed. Amid this, many children have suffered the loss of one or both parents, leaving them mentally and financially unstable. These COVID orphans need additional support from the state,...

Helping students in Uttar Pradesh in this pandemic Vidyakul, a vernacular e-learning platform, has collaborated with eVidya, a Digital Learning Venture by 40-year-old publishing Giant Vidya Prakashan Mandir, to help children prepare for their exams and basic school education. This collaboration will allow state students to have absolutely Free access to live digital classes based...

Few things in life can compare to the joy you feel when you become a parent. The happiness and safety of your kid becomes the topmost priority in your life. That means planning for their future so that they don’t have to worry about anything. Financial instruments, like a child education plan, are designed explicitly...

Pune based two well-known young social entrepreneurs Ketan Deshpande and Santosh Huralikoppi are working to establish a private university named FUEL University at Pune, education capital city of India. “We have submitted a detailed project report (DPR) and DD to Maharashtra State Government. We should be receiving LOI and next steps soon,” said Ketan Deshpande,...

17th May is observed as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day across the world every year to highlight the importance of telecommunication. This day is being celebrated since 1969 to mark the founding of ITU and the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865. The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdowns across the world...

As part of our #LetsTalkCSR series doing a deep dive into social initiatives by top corporates, let's explore the CSR of ITC. The Group headquartered in Kolkata sits proudly on our list of top companies for CSR in 2020. Another report by Goodera ranked ITC Limited as the 7th largest spender on Corporate Social Responsibility...

IIFL Foundation, the CSR arm of financial services group IIFL, runs one of India’s largest girl child education programmes – Sakhiyon Ki Baadi (SKB). Spread across 1200 remote schools in Rajasthan, SKB has been able leverage the digital medium to impart seamless education to over 36,000 girls during the pandemic. SKB schools are dedicated to...

Starting with 1970, this April 22 marks the 51st Earth Day aptly themed ‘Restore our Earth’. Today, in the wake of the global pandemic, as countries and communities around the world come together to rebuild their economies, it is more important than ever before to focus on a ‘green and sustainable recovery’. The ‘people’...

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...

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...

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...