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International Literacy Day 2022: CSR for Narrowing the Divide

The COVID-19 crisis has deepened the pre-existing inequalities in access to meaningful literacy learning opportunities, disproportionally affecting more than 700 million non-literate young people and adults. In the COVID response plans within the country, youth and adult literacy were absent while numerous literacy programmes had been forced to halt their usual modes of operation. Even...

Odisha to Introduce Gender Equality in Syllabus for more than 20,000 Government Schools

The Department of School and Mass Education in the state of Odisha on Monday announced its partnership with Breakthrough and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia with the goal of incorporating a gender equity curriculum into the syllabus for students across government schools in the state. According to a statement, "The...

National Nutrition Week: Lose weight not nutrients

Are you struggling hard to lose weight, doing intermittent fasting, following your friend, sister or aunt’s diet chart but of no luck? Maybe you are causing yourself more harm than good! On National Nutrition Week, (September 1-7), Integrative Nutritionist and Holistic Health Coach from Mumbai, Karishma Shah talks to The CSR Journal, highlighting the...

Rs. 920 Crore Greening Project to Address Climate Change to be Implemented by JICA in Tamil Nadu

In March of this year, the government of Tamil Nadu and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an MoU for the implementation of the greening project for climate change response in the state. This month will see the start of an eight-year, 920.52 crore initiative to combat climate change. The Greening Project According to Supriya...

Teachers’ Day: Top CSR Projects Upskilling Teachers in India

Teachers are the backbone to the growth and development of any nation. They serve as the building blocks that shape and develop one's undeveloped skill and potential. September 5 is celebrated as Teachers' Day every year in order to honour the teachers and the part they play in influencing the lives of their students....

E-learning platform aims to remove social media addiction in kids

Digital addiction, especially social media and online gaming has become a common problem with children especially since the pandemic and lockdown in 2020. At a time when parents are struggling to find ways, a Chennai-based e-learning platform has come up with a solution, that too free of cost! On Teacher’s Day, The CSR Journal brings...

This Bangalore restaurant is inspiring all to go eco-friendly

If you are fond of eco-friendly, Bangalore’s Go Native restaurant is just the place to be! Right from lighting up the dining area with solar power to sourcing local farm fresh products to plastic-free packaging, Go Native chain of restaurants is setting an inspiring example for everyone to follow. Talking about the same, Go Native...

Attempts to Enact a Global Ocean Protection Treaty Fail

A global accord to safeguard the world's seas and marine life has failed in its fifth attempt. Governments had been negotiating the details of the UN High Seas Treaty for two weeks in New York, but they were unable to come to an agreement. Only 1.2% of the international waters are protected, despite the...

Women’s Equality day: Meet Sucheta, the female cab driver and owner

Women have been leaving a mark in every possible field, especially those which are considered as ‘male dominated’. Be it fighting in the boxing ring, driving a train or flying an aircraft, women have proved they are no lesser. On Women's Equality Day, August 26, The CSR Journal presents the story of Sucheta Ghosh,...

Google Flights Represent only Half the Total Impact of Flights on Environment

Google has removed one of the key drivers of Global Warming from its online carbon flight calculator. This misleads people to believe that flight emissions are much lower than before. "Google has airbrushed a huge chunk of the aviation industry's climate impacts from its pages," says Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist of Greenpeace. As Google...

International Dog Day: Time to be kind towards strays

Ever since 2004, International Dog Day is celebrated on the 26th of August every year to spread the message encouraging people to adopt more dogs instead of buying them. However, even in 2022, disturbing pieces of news like ‘stray dog tortured and killed’, ‘dog brutally tortured’, ‘puppy beaten/strangled to death’ continue to make their...

Global Sustainability Report: Tetra Pak Drives Sustainability with the Motto ‘Protect What’s Good’

Tetra Pak is a world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Since its inception 70 years ago, sustainability has been at the heart of the Company’s business. Tetra Pak focuses on increasing food availability and food safety, reducing food waste, and improving resource and logistics efficiency whilst protecting the planet and society. Since 1999, the...

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