Health & Sanitation

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...

As we celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10th October with the theme “Mental health for all,” let’s take a look at how India is faring as far as mental health care is concerned. Noticed but neglected Over the past few years, with the impact of social media, mental health awareness has reached the common man....

In recent months, due to pandemic and related events, people across the world, especially those from the lower economic strata faced severe economic hardship and many experienced aggravated hunger. With economic activities still not back in full gear, hunger and food insecurity continue to be major issue to deal with for many. The world also...

CBM India in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank, commits to equip 44 vision centres in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. With this association Standard Chartered Bank will provide CSR funding support for the next three years for the project. The announcement is made ahead of World Sight Day 2020, to work towards reducing avoidable...

Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) pose huge life-threatening risks to the patient’s life as a result of which it demands diagnosis and treatment in the early stages itself. CHD cases cause psychosocial & financial stress on families, as a result of which patients, especially in the rural areas, fail to receive timely and effective treatment. Although...

In the lead-up to World Mental Health Day 2020, we are looking at Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth. These are people from the entertainment industry who have opened up about their own mental health issues and, in the process, widened the conversation about this topic to the masses. Famous Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth These personalities have, knowingly...

JanaJal, India’s leading technology-enabled safe-water services provider which has more than 700 water ATMs under its management, has launched a handwashing campaign in Delhi-NCR in the run-up to Global Handwashing Day that falls on October 15. The 15-day campaign, aimed at educating more than 10,000 people about good handwashing practices, is being conducted in partnership...

Every battle isn’t fought on a battleground; some are done quietly and with perseverance. Cancer patients are fighting their battle silently and to support this endeavour, Chicco India joined hands with Chennai-based NGO Sankalp Beautiful World for a CSR drive. They will be providing free of cost kits to paediatric cancer patients and cancer...

What do you do when you have a toothache? Visit a dentist would be the best guess. What about persistent acne? A skin specialist or a dermatologist would fix that. Seeking out professional help when you're concerned about your mental wellbeing is as simple as that. Demonising the mentally ill is no solution. We...