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News Update/ Press Release New Delhi, 2nd August 2021:  With an aim to strengthen women’s health in rural areas, Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF), in partnership with Häfele, a German based Global Interior Fittings Specialist, has conceptualized and implemented the Menstrual Hygiene Management Programme across 7 locations. To facilitate this programme, both the organizations have extended their support to the rural locations through installation of Sanitary Napkin Making/Dispensing Machines together with educative initiatives to spread knowledge about menstrual hygiene, breaking many myths and stigmas around it. Menstrual hygiene management and anemia in rural areas have always had a huge impact on the overall development of girls. Sharing her views on the issue, Ms. Pearl Tiwari, Director & CEO, Ambuja Cement Foundation said, “Menstrual

News Update/ Press Release Mumbai, 28 July, 2021: The pandemic has made all of us realize the importance of augmenting our public healthcare infrastructure and the need of preparedness for any unforeseen scenario. Governments, Corporates, Societies and Individuals have all done their bit to boost the healthcare infrastructure as the country faced severe Covid-19 battle.   As the pandemic still continues to show its ruthless effects, we believe that much more needs to be done. Hence, it is essential to be prepared for the future. To be ready for any such testing times, Vodafone Idea Foundation has stepped forward to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure across many cities in India. As a part of its corporate social responsibility, Vi has distributed critical medical

News Update/ Press Release New Delhi, 30 July 2021: Aahwahan Foundation is a Bengaluru-based NGO working pan India that aims to bring equality in society through its various measures focused on eradicating poverty, unemployment, women inequality, and promoting girl’s education.Continued access to quality education can ignite far-reaching changes and provide a voice to marginalized communities globally. The Foundation has experienced the transformational capabilities of widely shared learning at the grassroots level and witnessing the adverse impact of them not being fulfilled. At Aahwahan, we believe that India’s economic miracle has been on the foundation of its high-quality education. We have understood the importance of skill development along with school learning. The IT domain is expanding fast and there is an

News Update/ Press Release Pune, July 14, 2021: Grand Maratha Foundation (GMF), a non-governmental organisation has collaborated with Sau. Sindhutai Sapkal’s ‘The Mother Global Foundation’ to support the latter’s plans to construct orphanages and provide groceries to many beneficiaries via an initial donation of approximately Rs. 50 lakhs intended for over 650 orphans and others. The collaboration will undertake the provision of monthly groceries worth approximately Rs. 2,50,000 per centre, and feeding nearly 500 cows under The Mother Global Foundation.  With a mutual goal to encourage higher education, more than 200 farmers’ children have been already funded and recruited in private offices by GMF. GMF will also provide computers for online education and skill development to The Mother Global Foundation. As

News Update / Press Release Bengaluru, 26July, 2021: Extending support to combat Covid-19, ACT Fibernet, one of India’s largest fiber broadband ISP (Internet Service Provider), pledged 50,000 free vaccines for citizens and has joined hands the Government of Karnataka to drive this campaign.  Launched by ACT Fibernet on July 11, 2021, these camps are set up across different part of the city. So far, 12,000 vaccinations have already been administered by the company in areas such as RR Nagar, Chamrajpet, Vijaynagar, Bommanahalli, Shanthinagara, Chickpet, Girinagar, KR Pjuram, Shivaji Nagar, Rajaji Nagar and Hebbal. Plans are underway to organise camps in other part of the city in following weeks.  While citizens are adhering to restrictions of movement, there has been an increase in Covid-19 cases

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News Update / Press Release 13th July 2021 & New Delhi: Dangal Games, India’s booming skill and tech based online gaming platform that secured 1 Million Dollars in ‘Series A’ funding in January 2021, collaborates with an NGO – Wishes and Blessings to provide aid and support to the needy and underprivileged children. Under the partnership, the gaming company will be supporting the NGO’s projects namely ‘Street to School Programme’ which aims at providing quality education to the children as well as ‘Daily Meals Programme’ supporting the nutritional needs of the children by sponsoring 3 meals on a daily basis. According to a statistical report by CRY, less than50% of Indian children aged 6-18 do not go to school. More than 50% of India’s children are malnourished. Addressing the pressing issues, Dangal

News Update/ Press Release Mumbai, July 13, 2021: Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) towards its social responsibility for the society has teamed up with ‘Room to Read’ an NGO to help underprivileged children to improve literacy and inculcate reading habits during the lockdown. Through this partnership, the company reached out to 12 schools in Maharashtra and distributed 3089 literacy kits to children of grade 1-5.       The kits distributed contained storybooks, writing sheets, stationery and activity cards that helped children learn better amidst COVID-19. The literacy kits were also customized according to the need on-ground and were distributed in Hindi and Marathi language for ease of understanding.      Ms. Ruchika Varma, Chief Marketing Officer, Future Generali India Insurance said, “We firmly

News Update/ Press Release Telangana, 09 July, 2021- While many of us have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, especially during the second wave, the lockdown and night curfews have been particularly hard on the homeless population, whose already strained access to food, water, and healthcare has become even worse. This is where AI George Rakesh Babu stepped in to help those in need. But his humanitarian journey started a few years ago. They have rescued around 4000 destitute to date from the roads. The trust also initiates to take care of migrants in government hospitals and tries to reunite them with their families. They successfully managed to reunite more than 2000 migrants with their families and performed the last rites with

News Update/Press Release une 30, 2021, New Delhi:  Deutsche Bank has come forward to support Smile Foundation’s Health Cannot Wait campaign to strengthen public health infrastructure and provide critical care equipment to people. So far, the bank has donated 2,000 COVID-19 mitigation kits across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jaipur, and Pune. These kits include community screening kits, Personal Protection Equipment kits, hand sanitizer, thermal scanners, pulse oximeters and three-ply masks for frontline workers. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken India and seems to be even more devastating than the first. Fighting the new, more infectious variant of the virus, frontline health workers are working round the clock even as hospitals run out of beds and oxygen supply, and thousands