Health & Sanitation

QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, announced today that it has associated with the Bengaluru City Police to provide personal hygiene kits to support more than 1,000 police personnel from across 12 police stations in the city.  The company provided the city police with sanitizers, thermometer guns, masks, rain jackets,...

Martin Luther King Jr. asked pertinently and powerfully: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” The citizen-led Buddy Volunteer group in Bengaluru has been a support system to help COVID-positive patients in home isolation. Buddy Volunteers have reached out to more than 30,000 Bengalureans and provided emotional support to...

Fitness application StepSetGo (SSG), Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge winner, have announced a special partnership with Habitat for Humanity India. Through this partnership, StepSetGo aims to reach its users to help assist the NGOs humanitarian efforts for families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The bootstrapped fitness startup aims to do so through customised paid Virtual...

The Indian navy keeps vigil at sea, protecting our land by day and night from unknown terrors. However, there is a much less talked about side of the Indian Navy that you don't know about; their humanitarian rescue and disaster relief work. Our heroes at sea have not only helped the countrymen but are...

Sightsavers India, a global development organisation working in India since 1966 to eliminate avoidable blindness, has launched a film highlighting the plight of people with disabilities during COVID and the intervention by the organisation to support them on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The film focusses on Sightsavers’ three core areas of work...

On the International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2020, the NatWest Group India (formerly RBS India) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India Business Disability Network have launched SAMBHAV – “Enabling Possibilities”. SAMBHAV is a social networking platform for people with disabilities and their caregivers. With a Purpose to champion the potential of the...

In a bid to improve the compliance around wearing face masks in India, ACT Grants along with nonprofit Ek Desh announced that they are distributing 10 Lakh N95 Masks to frontline workers across the country. This is to commemorate the “recruitment” of 500,000 Corona soldiers who have pledged to drive Covid sensitive behaviour and...

For every Rs. 1 invested, the Dettol School Hygiene Education Programme delivers Rs. 33.05 of social value. An initial investment of Rs. 15.9 crore has yielded worthy outcomes through innovations such as using creative platforms to reinforce key hygiene measures, structured hygiene sessions in schools, supporting trainings at multiple levels and more, have brought...

Piramal Sarvajal, the safe drinking water initiative of Piramal Foundation launched a tool named Composite Water Vulnerability Index (CWVI) at its recent Webinar on ‘Sustainable Water Security for Urban Under-Served’ hosted in association with Center for Water and Sanitation (CWAS) and Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT). The CWVI tool is designed to rank...

While Bollywood grapples with issues such as drugs and nepotism, there is a certain sect of people from the industry who have decided to do something for society. Amidst a long standing debate of providing women their basic necessity at an affordable cost, a few people from the film industry and corporate sector got...

After the success of Phase 1 of the MTV Nishedh campaign that reached over 10 million people across India, Viacom18 and MTV Staying Alive Foundation, supported by an educational grant from Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc., are all set to bring a digital-only miniseries MTV Nishedh Alone Together, revolving around Tuberculosis (TB). TB in the...

On World Toilet Day, bathware brand Hindware launched Build A Toilet, Build Her Future campaign, reiterating its commitment to promoting good health and hygiene. Introduced under the aegis of Hindware's year-round initiative – Hygiene that Empowers, the CSR campaign focuses on encouraging the girl child to continue schooling by providing access to adequate sanitation infrastructure...