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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are an excellent opportunity for companies to make targeted interventions to address gaps in skilling that can prove to be catalytic both for the industry and the workforce. CSR is an opportunity to work with like-minded partners for the betterment of society at large. Business cannot be successful if the society around you does not prosper. A well-planned and well-executed CSR activity can help foster a strong bond between the company and its people. It also helps in developing a deeper human connection. He added that consumers now are also aware and like to align with companies that invest their time, money, and efforts in creating a sustainable environment for all. There is a huge

CSR NEWS Bengaluru, India; November 16, 2021 – Avasar Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to driving literacy and CrowdStrike Inc., a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection announced a university and pre-university educational scholarship program for female students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds with a strong aptitude to learn so they can benefit from quality, higher education. According to UNESCO, 870 million students saw disruptions to their education due to COVID. Students from marginalized communities were disproportionately affected, in most cases, due to loss of a parent or family income. As a result, economic shocks placed pressure on many children to give up their education. To counteract this, Avasar Foundation and CrowdStrike came together to help children, who faced disruption

News Update/ Press Release INDIA, 17 June 2021 – Expo 2020 Dubai and the United Nations Global Compact have come together to hold a Sustainable Development Goals Business Forum during Expo’s Global Goals Week (16-22 January 2022), to amalgamate businesses and spur further action towards a sustainable and inclusive future. Announced today at this year’s UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, the collaboration reflects a shared and urgent commitment to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and drive meaningful change. Spotlighting the work of the UN Global Compact – the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative – the business forum will examine how the global community can foster economic prosperity for all, while ensuring the SDGs are achieved by the 2030 deadline. Dubai Chamber of

Archive One of the defining moments in 2020 was the farmers’ protest near Delhi borders. As the end of year was approaching, Delhi became the theatre of a public protest; this time by farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana over the three farm laws brought out by the government.It means that the problems faced by farmers are by no means the same across India. Although the government dismissed their claims, it failed to convince them that the new farm laws were long-standing and beneficial reforms for them. The three laws are: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act.

Rapid, tumultuous change has come to our homelands in my lifetime. In fact, I travelled only with my family only by dog team on the ice and snow the first ten years of my life. So you can appreciate and imagine what that—that changes have happened so very quickly in our homelands in the Arctic. And, of course, that kind of tumultuous change, together with historical traumas, have created an incredible breakdown of our society in the Arctic. And we rate one of the highest suicide rates of our young men in North America. And so, this is the backdrop in which all these other new changes on the new wave is happening. The first wave arrived in my lifetime,