Tag: persons with disabilities
Microsoft India and NASSCOM Give Catalytic Grants worth Rs. 85 lakh to 11 innovators for PwD
NASSCOM Foundation and Microsoft India in partnership with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Department of Science & Technology (DST), and ERNET...
CSR arm of Allcargo Logistics delivers financial assistance to 150 visually impaired persons
As the COVID-19 pandemic impact has adversely affected the lives and livelihoods of people from the less privileged sections of society including those with...
Ensuring Accessibility of Social Justice for PwD
The preamble of India states that the constitution of India aims to secure to all its citizens equality of status and of opportunity. Right...
Top CSR Projects for Persons With Disabilities (PwD)
Persons with disabilities (PwDs) in India face discrimination and marginalisation every day. They lack access to essential services and are restricted in movement due...
7 award-winning Indian startups improving lives of Divyang
Whiz kids in India are coming up with new technology to make the lives of the specially-abled smoother and more comfortable. From an electric...
Wheelchair-bound tribal woman becomes entrepreneur and role model
Persons with disabilities often prove to be more than the sum of their parts. 29-year-old Premalata Behera, from a tribal community of Odisha, lives...
CSR: Recruiters cold to differently-abled, only 15% hire from this set
Hiring of differently- or specially-abled professionals by Indian recruiters has still a long way to go, if the recent survey findings by recruitment and...
Shapoorji Pallonji promotes inclusion of a diverse workforce with sports
The Shapoorji Pallonji Group integrated corporate social responsibility and employee engagement to break preconceived ideas about the capabilities of the differently abled, with the...
A walkathon covering the Earth’s equator
UBM-Informa, a B2B information services group, organised the first Walk the World, the organisation’s flagship annual charity event on March 20 at Marine Drive,...
CSR: Two Indian tech companies are models of inclusion
For India to become an inclusive society, it is important that the nation’s corporate sector sensitises itself to the country’s diversity, its gender differences,...
