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Awareness for farmers about crops
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APPL | Assam
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The volunteers sensitized the farmers about Spice Technology and Commercial production
for enhancement of income for better livelihood through Sustainable Agriculture
Practice with focus on Spices (Pepper). They also explained the term - Spin-off
which is the potential of this low volume-high value crop (pepper) and the anticipated
revenue they can earn from pepper after 4 -5 years of planting; which will give
their families a steady extra income annually besides other farming activities.
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Inauguration of a school
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CGPL | Gujarat
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In order to provide education facility Coastal Gujarat Power Limited ( Tata Power)
started a small school of pre-primary level named “Vidya Jyoti “ for business associates
and some of their families are residing at Urja Gram (Colony for business associates)
to commemorate CGPL Annual day and ongoing Volunteering week. The school was inaugurated
by the ED & CEO-CGPL along with the Senior Management
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The school has been established with the objective of encouraging literacy by extending
the education facility to the kids of associates. Uniform, school bags, books etc.
were distributed to all students present during the function. A teacher has been
appointed to oversee the school activities & teach the students. CGPL employees
as Volunteers will be also invited to teach in this school as per their convenience
as a volunteering effort which can be truly matched with the ethos of Tata Volunteering
week. Large number of CGPL volunteers participated in the Inauguration function
and committed to spare their quality time for the Social Cause.
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Blood donation camp
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Ginger Hotels | Mangalore
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23 employees had donated blood voluntarily in the camp organised by the Indian Red
Cross society at the hotel. The staff was very proactive & open minded from a social
perspective.
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Hygiene awareness
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Ginger Hotels | Mangalore
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49 employees actively took part in the Environment, Hygiene & cleanliness drive.
The COO, Ginger Hotels headed this initiative successfully. All employees were geared
up for this Tata volunteering activity & enjoyed all of it. This has really motivated
all team members to organise this kind of initiative once every month.
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Clean hands campaign
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Rallis India | Lote
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As a part of TVW-5, a group of Eight volunteers from Rallis India Lote Unit visited
Nutan Vidyalaya, Lote and organized a session on Hand Wash, Cleaning & Personal
Hygiene for their U.P. students on 12th March, 2016. A total of 145 students were
participated in the programme. Our Volunteers conducted a practical session on proper
hand washing and personal hygiene and explained the importance of the same in our
life. All the students were actively participated in the above session. At the end
of the session we have provided hand wash Soap to all the students.
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Wealth from waste
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Rallis India | Lote
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On 14th March, 2016, Seven Volunteers from Rallis India Lote Unit went to Z P School,
Lotemal and arranged a Competition on “Wealth from Waste’ for the 6th & 7th standard
students. 35 Nos. students were participated in the competition and all they made
beautiful and worthy things from the waste. Our volunteers prepared the students
for the competition before starting the session. Prizes were also distributed to
the winners. The school management and teachers were very happy on this initiative
from Rallis.
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Clothes donation drive
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Tata AIA Life Insurance | Kolkata
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The drive was at a Medical Camp run by NGO – Calcutta Rescue, wherein we donated
clothes to the women beneficiaries of the camp. Calcutta Rescue is a registered
non – governmental organization (NGO) operating in Kolkata and provides providing
free medical care, education, benefits and vocational training for increasing income
generation opportunities.
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Art therapy
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Tata Capital | Raipur
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On 4th March, 2016 a group of 30 Volunteers from Tata Capital, Raipur Branch visited
Aakanksha Lions School for Mentally Handicapped at Raipur. Activity aimed at the
Art therapy for 60 differently abled children. The children were encouraged by the
volunteers to use different bright water colors like yellow, green and red to create
different strokes by brushes which helped the children to stimulate and react. Stimulation
and reaction is a major achievement where the differently abled children are concerned,
art therapy also helped them in cognitive development. We also conducted games for
the students. All the students participated in the activity happily and they enjoyed
with the volunteers and teachers.
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Beach cleanliness drive
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Tata Chemicals | Mithapur
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The focus on coastal and marine ecosystem conservation continued at Mithapur and
volunteering activities designed for protection of these ecosystems were organised
during the weekend. The Mithapur beach plays host to nesting of the Olive Ridley
and the Green Turtles. Both these marine turtle species are endangered. Beach cleaning
program was organised on Saturday, 12th March evening to collect plastic waste and
other trash from the beach area. This is to ensure the nesting grounds of the marine
turtles remain clean.
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Coastal and marine ecosystem conservation
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Tata Chemicals | Mithapur
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The coral reef along the Mithapur beach shelters 28 species of hard corals and a
diverse marine life. Pieces of abandoned fishing nets (ghost nets) poses a threat
to turtles, crabs, snails and marine life. A program for removal of these ghost
nets and other trash from the coral reef was organised on Sunday, 13th morning.
Employees, family members and retired employees participated in the same. These
volunteers also helped in a survey to assess the health status of the live corals
at Mithapur.
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Knowledge sharing with youth
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Tata Communications | Delhi
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Tata Communications skill development initiatives are not only aimed at enhancing
the employability of young people by imparting technical know-how but imparting
right attitude and values too.
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The volunteers interacted with the students of Skill development center at Scope
Minar Delhi on 11th March 2016, and interacted with more than 80 youth enrolled
in different courses such as housekeeping, BPO and Retail.
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They spoke on 'Career Aspirations-Industry Expectations'. Students hugely benefitted
by this session.
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‘Litre of Light’
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Tata Communications | Kolkata
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In tandem with the theme Nurture-Nature, Tata Communications partnered with Seva
Kendra (Kolkata) on 11th March, to engage volunteers in designing low cost solar
lighting solution to disadvantaged households through a responsible and sustainable
approach.
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The activity was been planned at Seva Kendra Calcutta’s Rain Water Harvesting Shelter.
Activity began with the welcome speech by, Director of SKC, followed by the formal
introduction by the solar team about the process of making solar lanterns- be it
cutting the bottle, assembling wire, placing the circuit board and LED, painting
the bottle etc.
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18 Volunteers and 5 beneficiaries diligently took up the challenge to put in their
effort to assemble it and made 30 solar lanterns out of used bottles. These lanterns
go beyond meeting a need for lighting and will enable people to read, study, work
and do house hold tasks while saving costs on the use of kerosene and providing
better health, environmental and education conditions.
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Visit to Cheshire Home
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Jamshedpur
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Volunteers interacted with the children with a smile on their face and shared a
few light moments, had lunch with them. The volunteers collectively arranged lunch
items like Rice, Masur Dal, Chicken, Papad with sweets were distributed amongst
them. The day ended with some joyful moments like talking and singing of volunteers
with all disable girls, which was full of learning, wonder & fun with each other.
With this visit the Volunteers resolved to continue their support to the Cheshire
Home.
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Basic Computer Education
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Jamshedpur
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Basic Computer Training program was held for the Under-Privileged School Children,
where 15 students were given basic computer knowledge by 6 volunteers. With the
help of dedicated volunteers, the students were taught how to work on Ms-Word and
Ms-Excel. They were also taught how to create an email account and use Google, a
search engine on the internet. The children were excited and enjoyed during the
session
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Cleanliness drive
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Mumbai
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As a part of CSR activity organized by TCE, a team of 20 Engineers from TCE voluntarily
cleaned Bhandup Kund near Bhandup village, Mumbai. After 3 hours of continuous cleaning,
every one of the participants had the satisfaction that they had left the place
better than when they found it and to do the same thing again in the future.
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The participants went one step ahead by educating the people who live in the vicinity
regarding the maintaining the hygiene in public places like Bhandupeshwar kund where
around 300 people walk every day. The team also placed 3-4 make-shift dustbins in
the park for public usage.
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Visit to Cheshire home
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Tata Hitachi | Jamshedpur
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A team of 13 THCM volunteers organized a visit to Cheshire Home, Jamshedpur. Children
were very happy on seeing all of us with them. All members enthusiastically mingled
with children in entertaining them and spent their quality time in dancing and playing
with children. Finally before saying adieu food packets specially prepared for children
were given to them which they enjoyed thoroughly.
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Sessions on career counselling, value education and photography
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Tata Motors | Jamshedpur
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Team Members from Business Excellence and Communications organized sessions on career
counselling, value education and photography at Vidyasagar Vidyalaya, Bamangora.
While topics covered on career counselling and value education greatly interested
the students, session on photography, video recording and cinematography seized
the attention of the pupils.
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Dance session for young girls
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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As a part of Volunteering week 5 a family member took session on culture dance and
shared some tips on dance for young girls of baridih Community Centre
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Coaching students
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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Coaching for matric students was organised at the Baridih Community Centre. Two
volunteers gave their services for the betterment of the students.
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Sewing training for women
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A special sewing cum embroidery training for the bustee women organised at Baridih
Centre. A family member gave tips on the art of embroidery.
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Weightlifting training
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A weightlifting training session was organised at Baridih Centre for young aspirants,
the latent talent of the bustee youth. An employee volunteered his services for
the same.
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Water conservation rally
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A rally on Water conservation was organised at Kasidih area. Employees of Tat Steel
walked through the bustee area and generated awareness on water conservation.
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Computer Coaching
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies Volunteers visited and Computer coaching to school children for
one hour at Punaruththan Samarasata Gurukulam. In the Computer coaching hour they
covered basic topics such as Microsoft word, excel and Paint.
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Value Education Program
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies Volunteers visited and completed TVW5 Value Education Program
at Punaruththan Samarasata Gurukulam with 275 students. Value Education is a volunteering
activity where Tata Technologies employees visit NGO OR School and spend two hours
of volunteering to teach them about various social & education related topics on
hygiene, values, safety and ethics. We have our own syllabus prepared by our employees.
We also distributed snacks and fruity packs to students after the program.
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