Infosys Foundation Report 2019-20 FOR MANY, FOR EVER Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Title | 1 2 | Title Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 "Chhayaam anyasya kurvanthi thishtanthi svayam aathape Phalanthi cha parartheshu na swartheshu mahadhrumah" Trees stand in the scorching sun, yet provide shade for others, They bear fruits, not for themselves but for others. Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Title | 3 Chairperson’s message 4 | Chairperson’s message Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 For Many. For Ever. Have you heard the story about the this was two-fold. We wanted to months to come, as we navigate an king who, as an experiment, put a encourage the pursuit of merit-based unpredictable future, we will continue huge boulder in the middle of the excellence, while also providing to support the relief efforts and help road, to see if anyone would move it? support to deserving candidates from mitigate the suffering of those who do The king hid and waited to see what underprivileged backgrounds. not have the resources that the luckier would happen. Many people passed ones among us do. Through this past year, we have that way. When they saw the boulder, continued to expand the scope of All the work that we are able to do is most of them loudly blamed the our work across as many states as thanks to our excellent partner NGOs, king and found a way around it. This we could reach. We have helped enthusiastic volunteers, the support continued for a long time till a peasant to train nearly 3,000 teachers in of our trustees, advisors and friends, came by with a load of vegetables. Maharashtra, Odisha and Andhra and our indispensable team at the He kept down his bag and pushed Pradesh in the constructivist method Foundation, who go the extra mile the boulder, with all his might, until since 2014 through the Agastya every time to deliver the best. it rolled to the side of the road. And, Foundation. Our focus on hospitals under where the boulder had been, he As I review the year gone by, I think and shelters was reinforced through found a bag of gold coins and a note of a lone tree. It has its beginnings in the construction of a dharamshala from the king. the smallest of seeds. It grows into for AIIMS in Jhajjar, Haryana. We an often unsteady sapling and slowly We, at Infosys Foundation, are like have two museum projects this year grows into a tree with branches and that peasant. We believe in removing – support for the operations of the deeply embedded roots. They say obstacles and working towards Partition Museum in Amritsar and the that it takes years for a tree to build creating opportunities for everyone construction of the Museum of Art & its own ecosystem. And that while to have a better future. Our reward is Photography in Bengaluru. We also it grows, it provides shade, fruit and the happiness we see on the faces of dived in to help the country with our flowers. It becomes a home for all people and the successes that many flood relief work in Odisha, Assam, sorts of creatures, big and small. of them go on to achieve. Maharashtra and Karnataka. It becomes the lungs for the place As I look back on this past year, I think The second edition of the Aarohan where it is rooted. about what we set out to do and what Awards saw 1,700 nominations, Just like that tree, we started out we have achieved. Over the years, we reassuring us that we are able to with the seed of an idea in 1996, have established a presence in many make an effective intervention in the branched out and expanded our areas with our projects and programs. social innovation space. Ten promising work across India through the years, We started out at the beginning of innovations were awarded this year. until we became firmly rooted in the year with the intention of making As you are aware, we're living through the community around us. Today, a deeper impact in the areas where an extraordinary moment in history we are able to stand tall and steady, we have already made significant as a civilization. The battle against irrespective of the gusty wind or the inroads. We wanted to re-examine our the deadly COVID-19 pandemic pouring rain. Just like that tree, we will interventions and expand their scope continues unabated. Unprecedented continue to grow and spread, trying with every resource at our disposal. situations call for exceptional actions our best to bring relief and welfare for We also decided to branch out in and demand sacrifices. This tragic and as many people as we can and for as newer areas. One of these was dangerous situation demands that long as we can. sports. We felt that we could create all of us come together not just as a a deeper impression in sports by company but as a nation and most of creating longer and more meaningful all, as human beings. From the early Sudha Murty partnerships with organizations such days of this outbreak, the Foundation Chairperson, Infosys Foundation as the Prakash Padukone Badminton has been helping provide relief to Academy (PPBA). Our goal in doing those who most need it. In the Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Chairperson’s message | 5 CONTENTS 8 TRUSTEES 9 SPECIAL FEATURES 10 COVID-19 relief 14 Flood relief 19 ART AND CULTURE 20 Art & Photography Foundation 22 Partition Museum 24 Habba.org 27 DESTITUTE CARE 28 All India Institute of Medical Sciences 30 World Wide Fund for Nature-India 32 Rachakonda Police Commissionerate 35 EDUCATION 36 Avanti Fellows 38 Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy and Bridges of Sports Foundation 40 Public Health Foundation of India 42 Aarohan Awards 6 | Contents Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 45 HEALTHCARE 46 Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research 48 Kalap Trust 50 Jan Chetana Manch 53 RURAL DEVELOPMENT 54 Agastya Foundation 56 NASSCOM Foundation 58 Ramakrishna Mission 61 ANNEXURE Infosys Foundation and Sustainable Development Goals Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Contents | 7 Infosys Foundation Trustees Sudha Murty U.B. Pravin Rao Chairperson, Chief Operating Officer and Infosys Foundation Whole-time Director, Infosys Limited Ramadas Kamath U.(1) Binod R. Hampapur Sunil Dhareshwar (2) Head – Administration, Facilities, Global Head – Talent & Technology Global Head - Taxation and Corporate Infrastructure and Security & Operations, Infosys Limited Accounting, Infosys Limited Sustainability, Infosys Limited (1) Ramadas Kamath U. resigned as Trustee on December 25, 2019. (2) Sunil Kumar Dhareshwar was appointed as Trustee on December 25, 2019. 8 | Trustees Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Special feature: COVID-19 relief, Flood relief Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Title | 9 As the virus rages on, humanity takes center stage As part of COVID-19 relief efforts, Infosys Foundation helped to expand hospital capacity, provided hospital equipment and protective gear, and ensured food and nutrition for the poor. 10 | Covid-19 efforts Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 COVID-19 relief On December 31, 2019, health Of the amount committed, Rs 50 authorities in China’s Wuhan city crore was donated to the PM CARES reported a cluster of viral pneumonia Fund to supplement the government’s cases of unknown cause. A month pan-India relief efforts. More funds later, on January 30, 2020, the World have been dedicated to the COVID-19 Health Organization (WHO) declared relief efforts, which are continuing. the outbreak to be a Public Health The contribution was primarily utilized Emergency of International Concern. A across three broad areas: little over a month later, on March 11, 2020, WHO declared it a pandemic. As • To expand hospital capacity for on May 17, 2020, the virus, COVID-19, treatment and enable hospital has affected more than 4.71 million stays for COVID-19 patients, people in 188 countries and has especially the poor; caused 3,15,000 deaths. It’s not over • To provide ventilators, testing yet. As this is being written, more kits and personal protective people are testing positive and the equipment (PPE) like masks, and number of deaths is on the rise too. other protective gear for frontline The first COVID-19 case in India healthcare workers; The Foundation distributed food was reported on January 30, 2020 • To ensure better access to food and hygiene kits, containing and the first death in India due to and nutrition for the poor. essential groceries, masks and COVID-19 happened on March 12. sanitizers, through various On March 13, Infosys Foundation partner organizations. chairperson Sudha Murty wrote to the Karnataka government about a series of immediate steps required to curb the spread of the virus. It included measures such as closing all schools and colleges, shutting malls, theatres and air-conditioned areas, keeping only essential services open and setting up a quarantine hospital. Upping the game On March 30, 2020, Infosys Foundation announced Rs 100 crore Caption goes here support for COVID-19 relief efforts. Infosys Foundation Report 2019 -20 Covid-19 efforts | 11 collaboration with Narayana Health City (NHC). The facility, located near NHC, aims at serving patients belonging to economically weaker sections, will provide, besides accommodation, regular monitoring by doctors and nurses, and essential medication, free of cost. Further, the Foundation also helped establish a 182-bed quarantine facility for the Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru. The BBMP Super Specialty hospital on the institute’s premises The Foundation helped establish two Expansion of was converted into a COVID-19 quarantine facilities in Bengaluru. hospital capacity hospital. The Foundation procured and installed all the equipment required, Taking forward its suggestion of a and also supplied all the infrastructure, quarantine facility, the Foundation has including furniture and fittings.