Education and Skill Training

As Chairperson of JSPL Foundation, the executing arm of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) Group CSR activities, Shallu Jindal is on a mission. She is committed to empowering women and educating children, especially young girls, in the villages. Ms. Jindal said, “Empowering the girl child with education is the best and the wisest...

Sightsavers India has received the third edition of Grant Thornton Sabera 2020 Award in the “Shiksha” category for its effort in the field of education amidst the ongoing pandemic. SABERA awards were instituted by the Simply Suparnaa Media Network in the year 2018 with a view to recognize the exceptional work done in India in...

IBM believes in the power of #GoodTech in solving vital challenges that global communities face as part of its core business strategy. IBM India leads in putting smart to work with several key initiatives in healthcare, agriculture and skilling. Significantly, IBM India’s CSR commitment intertwines with the Government of India’s vision to empower the...

Kiran Shinde, Deputy Chef de Partie at the prestigious hotel chain JW Marriott, (grinning at you in the picture) is a success story for the books. He grew up as an orphan at an ashram in Pune. He worked several odd jobs to make ends meet. If it wasn't for his training at Mahindra...

As part of the Honeywell Safe Schools programme, Honeywell, a Fortune 100 leading technology company, and the NGO SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) restored, repaired, and retrofitted 15 state government schools in Dehradun and Hardiwar, and handed them over to Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat. Honeywell Safe Schools is a school safety programme, which is...

‘UMEED 1000’ Cyclothon, the flagship CSR initiative of RBL Bank, a social endeavour to contribute and raise funds in support of girl child education concluded successfully, raising Rs. 5.12 crores. The proceeds of the initiative will be donated to Udbhav RBL School, in Fatehnagar, Hyderabad, a school adopted by the Bank in 2019 catering...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) India, an India-registered Society and affiliate of the global humanitarian nonprofit, ADRA, headquartered in Maryland, United States, has launched a life skills programme for kids, “The Birds and Bees Talk” (BBT) with support from the global conglomerate, Reckitt Benckiser. The curriculum was launched for children between the ages...

Beyond healthcare and education, automobile companies tend to prioritise road safety and vocational skilling in their social welfare pool. CSR of Maruti Suzuki has contributed to the sustainable development of India in the same vein. The organisation undertakes road safety consciousness and is working with State governments to make a bigger impact. Skill training is...

Shahani Academic & Global Empowerment Foundation (SAGE), a non-profit trust focused on skills training, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rise Infinity Foundation, Secretariat of MahaPECONet, a coalition of development partners convened by UNICEF. Through this agreement, SAGE and UNICEF MahaPECONet seek to collaborate towards the skilling and upskilling of youth from migrant...

Electronics major Samsung celebrates 25th anniversary in India with the announcement of #PoweringDigitalIndia. What is #PoweringDigitalIndia? #PoweringDigitalIndia is Samsung's brand new vision for the country that will be driven by an exciting new CSR programme aimed at students across the nation, a refreshed local R&D strategy with special focus on the local startup community and new...

COVID-19 has accelerated the need for Singapore to generate new digital relationships with the world. As data, financial and trade flows increasingly become digitalised, there is a corresponding need for secure and trustworthy ways to transact. The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), has worked with Enterprise Singapore (ESG) to launch the Blockchain for...

As part of Mahindra Group’s yearlong 75th anniversary celebrations, in the spirit of Rise that resonates across the group, Mahindra today launched its #SkillHaiTohFutureHai digital campaign focussed on youth skilling. India is strongly positioned in the world owing to its demographic dividend in the form of two-thirds of its population being in the working-age group...