CSR & ESG News

News update/press release India, November 19, 2021: One of the major reasons for girls’ dropping out school is lack of sanitation. In order to bridge the gap between girls’ education and sanitation, renowned Bathware brand Hindware has pledged to send lakhs of girls back to school by building toilets across India under its ‘Build a Toilet, Build her Future’ campaign. This initiative came to life in Bahadurgarh last year where the brand involved the architect community to design economical yet functional toilets. Taking this initiative ahead this year Hindware will be constructing 50+ toilets across 2 states. The campaign focuses on encouraging the girl child to continue schooling by providing access to adequate sanitation infrastructure at schools. Addressing the acute

News Update/Press Release Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, every student’s desire to leverage technology has seen a paradigm shift. From online learning to other digital educational programs children are now dependent on technology as their medium to get educated. But, not everyone in society is fortunate enough to have even the most basic access to the internet. There are enough pieces of evidence proving why students from underprivileged backgrounds are lagging when it comes to online learning. And that’s when Aahwahan Foundation came into action. Aahwahan Foundation combines its experience, technical capabilities, and leadership skills to develop programs, campaigns, & initiatives where they are required the most. Education structures are very complex across the globe. Knowing the significance

News Update/Press Release Pune, November 17, 2021: With an aim to ensure quality access to STEM education and create India’s next generation of talent, SKF India, today announced the launch of WeGyaan – a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) initiative for deserving students.  To be launched in association with NGO partner, United Way Bengaluru, the WeGyan initiative plans to reach to at least 10,000 students annually, in government schools across Ahmedabad, Gurugram, Haridwar, Mysuru, Bengaluru, and Pune with the aim to encourage students to pursue education and careers in STEM subjects. With the core focus on building STEM learning, including setting-up infrastructure for STEM labs, and providing innovative science-based learning tools to help students strengthen the concepts in Science

News Update/Press Release New Delhi and Bangalore, November 17, 2021 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft in India are supporting 10 startups, which focus on social impact and sustainability, by helping them to scale their emerging solutions and business models. The joint initiative, called Project Amplify is Asia Pacific-wide and accelerates the growth of 33 startups from across the region. The initiative extends activities launched in South Asia in 2020 welcoming business ventures from Singapore, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and more. The initiative has a long-term goal of accelerating Asia’s potential and improving millions of lives in the region and globally, by addressing diverse societal challenges. Purpose-driven startups from India participating in Project Amplify include Jaljeevika, eKutir, Everwell, Fluxgen, Docturnal,

India,19 May,2021- Hindustan Unilever Limited has now rolled out Mission HO2PE in New Delhi and Bangalore. As part of Mission HO2PE, HUL has partnered with KVN Foundation and Portea, India’s largest home healthcare company to make oxygen concentrators available free of cost to patients in need in these cities, promptly and efficiently. India is facing a severe shortage of O2 concentrators as the healthcare system continues to grapple with the deadly second wave of Covid-19. Through Mission HO2PE, HUL has airlifted over 5000 oxygen concentrators into India. HUL’s partnership with KVN Foundation and Portea will provide access to oxygen for Covid-19 patients directly in their homes, thereby reducing the pressure on our healthcare infrastructure which is already under duress. In New Delhi and Bangalore, patients and caregivers can

In the mountains of northern Turkey, people might hear the strains of whistling on the breeze. It sounds like birdsong, complete with trills, chirrups and lilting whistles. But this whistling is entirely human. The next time you are in Turkey, visit Kuskoy – the village in district Canakci in Giresun province where people communicate through bird sounds. The unusual and very efficient whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in remote northern Turkey has entered the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The United Nations Cultural Agency this week has accepted the “bird language” of Black Sea villagers as an endangered part of world heritage in need of urgent protection because it could soon be overtaken by modern