Health & Sanitation

NMDC, the country's largest Iron ore producing Navratna mining company, partnered with Grace Cancer Foundation, an NGO engaged in creating Cancer Awareness and conducting Screening Camps by providing a Mobile Cancer Screening Bus fitted with Mammography Machine, X-Ray Machines, Computed Radiography Imaging system, Digital Printing and other cutting-edge features. Etela Rajender, Minister of Health, Govt....

United We Care has launched a campaign called #TimeToOpenUp for World Mental Health Day 2020. The campaign will comprise of a series of initiatives including awareness posts displaying the Green Ribbon tag on social media, interesting discussions and a panel with experts. United We Care is an app-based platform that integrates social, mental, and legal...

On the occasion of World Mental Health Day today, Tata Motors in association with the MindPeers (a mental health tech service platform), launched a special campaign - ‘Stop the Endless Accident’ - to raise awareness on road safety and trauma caused by vehicular accidents. Keeping in mind that accident survivors are not considered for conventional...

The Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF), a charitable trust set up in 2015, has launched “Investing in Hope,” a campaign to mark World Mental Health Day which is being observed today. The campaign is in line with the World Federation for Mental Health & WHO theme for this year: Mental Health for All: Greater...

By: Dr. Ambrish Dharmadhikari This pandemic has thrown at us unknown challenges. Have we ever thought that we would be working from the home for straight six months? Or our children will be taking a school online and for a lunch break will be with us? Or we won’t require a meeting room or for...

Together, we can surmount any crisis – including a global pandemic. This is the underlying message of nonprofit organization Population Foundation of India’s new campaign that is trying to put some cheer back in people’s lives. The CSR Journal spoke to Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India (PFI) and two-time National Award-winning filmmaker...

The future and progress of the country depends on the younger generation. Youth can contribute to the progress of the country with new, innovative and positive thinking. However, the problem of mental illness has taken a toll across different age-groups, especially the youth. According to the WHO, one in four people worldwide suffer from a...

Hyundai Motor India Ltd. distributed over 10,000 Khadi masks across multiple slums of Mumbai as part of Hyundai Cares 2.0 Project Rakshak. The reusable Khadi masks were distributed to help the underprivileged residents of slums in Mumbai protect themselves from the ongoing pandemic. Since the lockdown, Hyundai has been at the forefront in providing COVID-19...

By Dr. Bharat Pandya, Rotary International Director The global pandemic has toppled the world with a steep rise in deaths due to COVID-19. This new world scenario not only affects the economies but also poses an additional burden on the healthcare infrastructure across countries. While working at a breakneck pace to develop a vaccine for the...

On World Sight Day, Standard Chartered Bank, India, announced that it will open 200 vision centres over the next two years keeping with one of the Bank’s CSR objective of tackling avoidable blindness and visual impairment. These vision centres, which will offer eye care services, will be set up with leading partners operating in this...

As the country celebrated the National Nutrition Month, Amway India, one of the country’s leading FMCG direct selling companies, undertook many CSR initiatives to highlight the importance of nutritious meals for all. Through one of the key initiatives, ‘Cook for a Cause’, the company invited everyone to cook nutritious meals and distribute them to...

AkzoNobel India has partnered with Telerad Foundation, a global healthcare organization to begin a telehealth CSR project Aarogya Sakha, to improve the healthcare status of the painter community. What is CSR project Aarogya Sakha about? In the first phase of this project, the healthcare service will be accessible to 200,000 painters and their families across states...