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DUBAI: The unique collaboration between the IKEA Foundation and the UNHCR has resulted in a new, innovative, safer and more durable shelter for refugee families around the world. UNHCR has placed an order of 10,000 units with the social enterprise Better Shelter. Better Shelter was started by the Housing for All Foundation, a non-profit foundation established...

World’s largest communication and advertisement giant WPP Plc launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) arm in India. Martin Sorell, CEO, WPP announced the commencement of the ‘WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation’ while his visit to India. The foundation aims to ‘enable children and youth from vulnerable and marginalised communities to achieve their full potential...

Following the “clean diesel” scandal, Volkswagen will be dropped from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), a leading sustainability index in the early October. Once a favourite of fuel efficient automakers, Volkswagen will be removed from the DJSI on October 6, a press release from index organizers RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices said. Volkswagen was...

This festive season, The wp Journal is collaborating as a values partner with creators of ‘The Goodness Gracious Gift Box!’ – a socially responsible Diwali Gift Box concept for Corporates. The gift box supports & promotes several grassroots NGO’s and ethical, sustainable enterprises from across India, which have been handpicked in consultation with The Green People of India (TGPI).

Bollywood Star Kalki Koechlin goes green, pledging support to The Green People of India (TGPI).

How do you connect social responsibility with the overall marketing strategy of a company? As social responsibility becomes the flavour of the season in Indian advertising, companies are looking to realign their messages to acquire consumer confidence

Undertaking construction of Toilets as a wp activity could be a complete waste of funds & resources if Corporate Companies have not thought through the need for treatment of the human waste generated. The solution? BioLoo.

The wp Journal had first reported on the government’s plans for a new mining policy and its plans for the revival of the beleaguered sector in Budget 2014, last week.

FOR 32 children from Mumbai, who live in underprivileged conditions and find it tough to even fulfill their basic needs on most occasions, it was a moment of exhilaration when celebrity lensman Atul Kasbekar reached out to them to conduct a masterclass on photography. Kasbekar was participating in an event called Mumbai Meri Jaan,...

How grocery shop owner Anita Lobo is using social work to survive in business, having nailed the germ of what has evolved as wp: Engage and safeguard the community to protect your business bottom line.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever

THE new building of Veda Vidyalaya, constructed with support from Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL), has been inaugurated at Siddhamath, Keonjhar on Friday July 4, 2014. Mr. T. S. Shanbhogue, EVP & Unit Head of JSPL Barbil and Mr. Pratap Chandra Hota, Sub – Collector, Kendujhar Sadar inaugurated the building in a spiritual...