FEBRUARY 2015 I VOLUME 2

Here’s the second edition of the RPG Foundation newsletter. This is a showcase of the exciting CSR activities that the RPG Group companies have been doing in the last three months, touching the lives of many needy people, at our different locations across . We are doing CSR at three different levels i.e. around our plant locations, in the industries we operate in and a flagship Netranjali program of the RPG Group for universal social impact. We encourage you to support us with your participation in our initiatives!

We launched Netranjali our Flagship program in Community beneficiaries December 2014 across our waiting in line for the eye screening group companies.

India has the world’s largest blind population (18Mn) and nearly 80% of the cases are preventable with suitable & timely eye care interventions. Our flagship project Netranjali is a Vision/ Eye health care initiative. The goal of Project Netranjali is to ensure provision of comprehensive Vision/Eye health care to avoid preventable blindness amongst the less privileged sections of society – children, elderly and special groups like truckers/drivers, around our plant/office locations and other need based areas across India. In addition to the comprehensive eye check-ups & sustainability training to community workers & teachers we will provide free spectacles to Community the needy under Project Netranjali. beneficiaries getting their eyes screened To ensure the flawless implementation of our project we have partnered with Sightsavers, a leading Children being organization with many years of experience in screened at the school camp prevention of avoidable blindness.

1 Training of community School child being given the free Truckers being briefed before Health Workers spectacle under project Netranjali the Netranjali Camp

STAGES OF EYE CARE INTERVENTION TARGET POPULATION - 1,50,000 YTD REACHED - 70,000

PROMOTIVE PREVENTIVE CURATIVE

Educate & create awareness of eye Eye Camp screening covers Dispensing free spectacles health problems in the community/ Comprehensive eye screening & wherever needed for both myopia school via educational materials like detection of the following eye health & hypermetropia - Provision of pamphlets, posters, banners etc. problems in the community & customized bifocal glasses for the schools: elderly/children etc within a week. Train Govt. Health/ Aanganwadi • Cataract/ Glaucoma Referrals to the base hospital workers & school teachers to carry • Diabetic Retinopathy for secondary/tertiary eye care & out pre - screening camps and • Refractive Error surgeries for cataract, glaucoma home to home registrations prior • Child Cataract/ Lazy eye/ etc. This is being done by our to main camp to identify the needy Vitamin A deficiency partners Sightsavers/Base hospitals patients. To ensure sustainability of via Govt subsidized schemes the programme these Aanganwadi workers & school teachers are trained & sensitized in basic eye screening.

TRUCKERS CAMPS Patients Screened - 306 SCHOOL CAMPS RPGF Provided Free spectacles - 160 Children Screened - 1277 Referred for Cataract (Sight Savers/ - 4 GENERAL COMMUNITY & RPGF Provided Free Spectacles - 146 Govt subsidized) ELDERLY CAMPS Referred for Vitamin A, squint etc (Sight Savers/Govt subsidized) - 448 Patients Screened - 3,587 RPGF Provided Free spectacles - 1,342 Referred for Cataract (Sight Savers/Govt 2 subsidized) - 305

Pehlay Akshar A workshop was conducted on the 6th and 7th of November, 2015 Storytelling workshop in for the Pehlay Akshar’s facilitators process (teachers). The workshop aimed at improving storytelling and classroom management skills.

COME FORWARD AND BE A MENTOR! • The Paper Boat Project is a mentorship programme, where employees would be

paired with Pehlay Akshar children, to Giveaways to all guide them and be a friend for their future the employees who visited the Bake Sale growth.

• This Project was launched on December 22, 2014 to create awareness among employees about the importance of Employees signing up as mentors for the mentorship. The Pehlay Akshar team along Paper Boat Project with Tall Tales organized a story telling event with RPG employees. Storytellers were RPG employees who shared their Display of Yummy treats for the Bake Sale mentoring experiences.

• Subsequently, a ‘Bake-Sale’ was organized in the RPG chill zone on January 27, to talk to employees about The Paper Boat Project mentorship program and encourage them to sign-up. 80 employees signed up to explore the program. We are soon starting similar initiatives in CEAT Bhandup, Raychem RPG Vasai and RPG Life Sciences Navi- too.

4 Swayam Swayam batch of 35 women at Malawni , a Mumbai Suburb • CEAT’s unique Women Empowerment Programme – Swayam, focuses on Promoting Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment by training underprivileged women in driving skills to enhance their livelihood across various sectors like cab transportation, home care, patient care, school bus driver, etc. CEAT Swayam Besides the driving skills training, women undergo Press Coverage training in allied skills like self defense, basic spoken English, customer service skills, grooming, first aid, defensive driving skills and training in mechanics to make them stand out as a proficient and polished woman driver. • 200 less privileged women are currently enrolled under Project Swayam along with our training Soft Skills training partner Motor Education and Training Association in Mumbai and . • 50 women trainees have completed the rigorous driving training, allied skills and have undergone a selection process for a leading all-female Taxi Service, Priyadarshini. • Check out our Swayam AVs on http://youtu.be/ Simulator training imparted syeEWbGgAB0, http://youtu.be/-66IosRjwe4, to Swayam Trainees http://youtu.be/VVzqfoa8fGs. • Project Swayam has also received appreciation in the media for implementing this unique programme.

HML Team being awarded by the Local Self Governing bodies for their The Gram Panchayat – Local Self Governing Bodies commendable work have honoured Achoor, Arrapetta and Sentinel on environment sustainability Rock estates of Harrisons Malayalam Ltd. for its commitment towards sustainability. Waste Management, Awareness to public, Environment hygiene, Plastic Free Zones, Safe Agricultural Practices etc. are some of the commendable initiatives which have been undertaken by Harrison Malayalam Limited.

Sentinel Rock estate made money out of the plastic waste collected and with that money water purifiers was supplied to the nearest needy school. 5

In keeping with the national objective of Swachh Bharat/Clean India, Zensar Employees at Hyderabad & Pune took it upon themselves to create clean spaces in and around the office premises. In Volunteers in Pune addition to this, around 15 to 20 employee cleaning the school’s common area volunteers participated in a cleanup drive wherein they took to the streets & started creating awareness on cleanliness and waste management amongst the public, Volunteers in street urchins & shopkeepers. They were Hyderabad cleaning the also very involved in cleaning the streets streets outsidethe themselves, to set an example to the office premises general public. The highlight of the event was when children from the near by schools were also involved in the cleanup drive. They happily cleaned their classrooms & school corridors with the employees.

Zensar’s Flagship Biodiversity Park focuses on environment sustainability. The 2 acre Biodiversity Park includes diverse flora and walking trails with informative signages for the benefit of students and visitors. This park is unique as one can learn so much about plants, vegetation & medicinal plants Visually Impaired Children through various senses such as taste, enjoying the Udaan Biodiversity rub, smell etc. Apart from this, the park Park reading the Braille signages has Braille signages that help to engage visually-challenged visitors. This park is both educational & therapeutic thereby attracting various schools that bring their children for educational excursions or recreation.

6 Jeevan

Project Jeevan: Our integrated community project—Jeevan, focuses on improving all-round quality of life in the areas of clean drinking water, overall health, sanitation and nutrition-based interventions amongst others. These have been identified as critical local need gaps in the Need Assessment Study at the communities surrounding our plant locations conducted by Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS).

Children enjoying the A Yoga & Meditation clean drinking water session being carried at Schools at the CEAT out for 200 adolescent Plant under girls under project Jeevan project Jeevan. We are at the CEAT Bhandup benefitting the health Plant.Project focuses on of 4,000 children via improving their anemia. this project

Oral health check-up being conducted for A General Health school children under awareness session project Jeevan at the being carried out KEC Plant. More under project Jeevan than 2000 children are for 500 school children being supported to date at the KEC Jaipur Plant via this project.

Provision of nutritious A General Health check- meals to school for 100 up being carried out children via project Jeevan under project Jeevan for at the Raychem Halol 1050 school children at Plant & 500 children at the KEC Jabalpur Plant CEAT Halol plant.

7 Saksham Project Saksham: Our multi-skill development programme focuses on providing vocational training to women for alternate livelihoods e.g. tailoring, nursing & providing technical skills training and education to youth for employability.

Girls learning Inauguration of Maternity Care the beauty parlour under project training centre under Saksham –at CEAT project Saksham at Bhandup CEAT Nashik

Women learning Women learning Sewing & Embroidery Sewing & Embroidery under project Saksham under project Saksham CEAT Bhandup at CEAT Halol

SHG group women Women learning put up their stalls Sewing & Embroidery in the village under under project Saksham project Saksham at at Raychem RPG KEC Nagpur Chakan

Career guidance session for youth under project Saksham at CEAT Halol

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