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| Tech Mahindra Foundation |
| The Tech Mahindra Foundation was instituted in June 2007 with an aim to facilitate quality education and vocational training for the economically, socially and physically disadvantaged. Among its core concerns are education, women empowerment, enabling people with disability & vocational training programs. |
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The Tech Mahindra Foundation has tie-ups with non-governmental organisations (NGOs, not-for-profit ventures)
based in Delhi-Noida, Maharashtra and Karnataka. These partnerships help promote programs that enable the underprivileged to become self-reliant and responsible contributing citizens.
Along with these social bodies, the foundation is spawning new ways to transform society, supporting education and women empowerment programs,
and rehabilitate the displaced and dispossessed. |
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| The Foundation has on-going associations with various organisations working in the field of education, including Akansha, Dhwani, Katha, Vidya & Child and Parikrama. The objective is to improve the quality of teaching in Municipal schools. Development of out-of-school children and teaching English are the other two thrust areas. In the past 4 years, we have supported more than 8000 students. |
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Towards its goal of lifting the standard of education in municipal schools,
the foundation has partnered with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to felicitate deserving principals
and teachers of MCD schools
with Shikshak Samman Awards.
The awards are in the nature of scholarships and incentives for professional development. |
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Launched in 2008, these awards
seek to provide an avenue for
further professional development
of the committed teachers,
encourage innovation and disseminate best practices.* |
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| The Learning to Lead (LTL) program finds academically strong and motivated students and integrates them into private schools. The focus is on shaping leadership skills of the students. |
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Over the last 4 years, we have supported 200 students who have been absorbed in top colleges and are talented to take up the mantle of leadership in the near future. |
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| The foundation provides funding support to Katalyst, a non-profit program that empowers talented girls from low socio-economic groups and transform them through professional education into confident women who will be assimilated into the management cadre of high end companies. Currently they support 50 girls and 15 of them have already received offer
letters from different companies including Tech Mahindra with a starting pay package of more than 0.45 million per annum. |
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The foundation also imparts vocational training to underprivileged girls and women from the minority community so that they can contribute to family income & community healthcare. |
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| At Tech Mahindra, education and women empowerment are our two focus areas. Hence, when it comes to women education or training, more is less. We undertake every possible effort to mentor women towards livelihood generation. Some of our initiatives include: |
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| Raza, Bangalore trained over 457 youth in 4 different vocations resulting into an average placement of 80% of them. |
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Sneha, Mumbai conducted vocational training course which reached out to 0.5 million people enabling them to contribute to their family income. |
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| To encourage and empower those with disabilities, the foundation conjunction with able partners, regularly undertakes initiatives in the areas of holistic education, nutritional support, co-curricular activities and speech therapy. |
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In the reporting year, the foundation also provided digital talking books for visually impaired people. These books were uploaded on the website of Daisy Forum of India and have been accessed by more than 23000 visually impaired across the country. Going ahead, The foundation is poised to set up a resource center and scale-up its intervention in this domain, nationally. |
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| The foundation supports two special residential schools at Anandwan, located near Warora in Chandrapur district in the state of Maharashtra. Anandwan, is an ashram, and a community rehabilitation centre for leprosy patients and the disabled from downtrodden sections of society founded by noted social activist, Baba Amte. |
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For the children with disability studying in these schools, following initiatives
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Provision of clothing, food and educational material |
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Music training - 96 blind children |
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Group hearing training - 100 children |
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IT training - 30 students |
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| E-nabling E-ducation |
| Through EnAble India, a registered charitable trust - the foundation impacted the lives of 3000+ visually impaired directly and indirectly. The thrust is on enabling equal opportunities in both education & employment for those who are visually impaired. |
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The foundation promotes skill development in underprivileged youth so that they
find suitable jobs in prevailing market conditions. The focus in on enhancing skills
of the youth in English communication and thereby boost their self-confidence
and employability. |
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In alliance with partner Unnati, Bangalore, the foundation helped train 275 youth in
2 years. The highlight of this endeavour has been a 100% placement record for its students. Most of the trained youth are performing well and many students have
been bestowed with Best Employee Awards. 30 of them have even become supervisors and are responsible for 15-20 workers each. The highest salary
recorded is INR 15,000 per month. |
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| For the young citizens of India coming from lower socio-economic strata, this training has helped them gain not just financial security but also social well-being. |
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The foundation has joined hands with a well-known, Mysore-based NGO - Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement for flood relief and rehabilitation work in the Bijapur
District of Karnataka. |
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Tech M volunteers contributed one day's salary equivalent to INR 4,099,747 towards the rehabilitation & resettlement of these flood affected areas. Till now, 350 houses have been constructed and construction of another 150 houses is under progress.
To rejuvenate the habitat, 220 trees have also been planted. Furthermore, training has been provided to build fuel-efficient chulas. Youth groups from the region are also being encouraged to participate in local governance. |
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