Tata Volunteering Week 14 Volume No. 11   
 
  Covid Safety Awareness Roots Corporation   
 
A group of volunteers from Ginger Vapi, Undertook a Covid Safety Awareness drive to support 'Covid-19 Safety Awareness' Total of 10 volunteers Participated in the area of Salvav and also explained to people about the importance of maintaining social Distance, wearing a mask & Hand Cleaning procedure.
 
  Road Safety Awareness Roots Corporation   
 
A group of volunteers from Ginger Vapi, Undertook a Road Safety Awareness drive to support 'Road Safety Awareness'. A Total 12 volunteers participated in the area of Salvav and also instructed people the importance of wearing Helmet & Seat Belt while driving and following Road Safety Rules.
 
  COVID-19 Awareness drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Tata Consumer Products, Damdim Packeting centre employee conducted a COVID-19 Awareness drive with NGO partner "Steps" who has identified a remote location named Totgaon (Under Bagrakote Gram Panchayat, Mal - Block) on 26th Sept. 2020. Awareness training was provided on basic hygiene practices, social distancing, and other good practices by plant QM team to school children and residents. Volunteers also donated 50 school kits to deprived children, sanitary napkin for adolescent girls, 200 cloth face mask to villagers and handwash soap to around 100 families.
 
  Mask distribution drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Nonoi PC distributed mask in nearby area and also conducted an online yoga session on 29th Sept. 2020 for nearby villagers.
 
  Donation drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Tata Consumer Products, Delhi office have distributed cooked food to security guards in their residential complex . As these guards do not belong to Delhi and were unable to visit their dear ones in their hometown The residents of the society took this initiative of providing them home cooked food on rotation basis. Family members participated as well.
 
  Donation drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Delhi office have distributed vegetables to needy people near their residential complex.
 
  Visit to Orphanage Tata Motors   
 
In continuation of our efforts to encourage teams to enthusiastically participate in TVW14, Team from EV shop, Tata Motors, Pune visited" Mai Bhalbhavan", Orphanage for blind & disabled on Monday 5th Oct and as per request from Orphanage handed over Mixer grinder, grocery items and fruits were distributed. It was heart touching experience for all those who were present onsite for this activity.
 
  Career Counselling Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products took an online career counselling session on "careers in Environmental Management" with class 10th and 12th students of High Range School, Munnar. During the session volunteer briefed about courses in Environmental Management and different career opportunities in the Environmental field.
 
  Tulasi Plants distribution Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore office distributed 50 Tulsi plants within their residential complex. To make sure to follow social distancing plants were kept on ground floor of the apartment and beneficiaries were asked to pick one plant each.
 
  Donation drive Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited   
 
Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited. TVW14 - TPREL site of Ahmednagar in association with Bosco Gramin Vikas Kendra mobilized 300 grocery kits which contain wheat flour, rice, pulses, edible oil, spices, sugar, tea powder, sanitizers, detergent bar powder, biscuits etc. Each grocery kit was around 20kg. The total material was around 6 thousand kgs. It was distributed to most vulnerable families. Site Staff volunteered in the distribution of the kits.
 
  Quiz competition for students TATA SKY   
 
The quiz activity was done virtually with children at Vatsalya Foundation on 11 Sept. Vatsalya Foundation is a pioneer agency working with street children in Mumbai through its multilevel approach of outreach. We have been associated with them for the last 6 years through various volunteering activities, however this was the first time we conducted such an activity virtually. This in no way diminished our or the kids' enthusiasm and we were all extremely excited to be part of an Online Quiz. The Quiz was developed around sports, general knowledge & current affairs and the difficulty level of the questions was set keeping in mind the age of the participants. We started out the quiz on a light and jovial note to make the kids more comfortable with the virtual event. As the quiz progressed and the kids started enjoying the process, they couldn't wait to come in front of the camera to talk about themselves and give their answers. Their faces beamed with pride & happiness when we applauded them for their correct answers.
 
  Cleanliness drive Roots Corporation   
 
The Ginger Hotel spent their time at Gaushala to clean it, cut the grass & feed the animals in that Gaushala (Gau Raksha Kendra, Halduchaur, Nainital). The Gaushal was set up to save those Cow & Cattles who are been thrown out from our society.
 
  Gardening on the occasion of “Gandhi Jayanti” Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from the Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore office took part in the community Gardening on the occasion of "Gandhi Jayanti" on 2nd Oct. 2020. Volunteers not only participated in this activity but also took initiative to plan and execute this activity. During this activity plants like Mango, Amla, Neem, Giloy, Bilva, Curry leaves were planted within residential complex.
 
  Session on Career guidance Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore office took 2 sessions on career guidance with batch 1 (9th and 10th Std. student), batch 2 (11th and 12th Std student) for the students of High Range School, Munnar. The session was focused on letting the students know what the career opportunities are out there and How to customize their career as per their own interests and aspirations.
 
  COVID-19 awareness session Tata Consumer Products   
 
A volunteer from Tata Consumer Products, Siliguri office visited labor colony near to his residents.He distributed some mask and sanitizers to them and gave COVID-19 awareness speech to them, so that they become courageous to fight COVID-19.
 
  Health & Nutrition Awareness Tata consulting Engineers   
 
POSHAN ABHIYAAN is a multi-ministerial convergence mission with the vision to ensure attainment of malnutrition-free India by 2022. Its aim is to ensure holistic development and adequate nutrition for pregnant women, mothers and children. We demonstrated to the caregivers and teachers of Door Step School (DSS), how to grow micro greens which are rich in several nutrients and how to make use of the same. These micro greens can be easily grown from the available resources.
 
  Kitchen Gardening Workshop Tata consulting Engineers   
 
"Kitchen Gardening Workshop" was conducted by one of the team member from BAIF NGO for TCE employees. The activity was an informative session as how an individual can plant vegetables & fruits in their open terrace, balcony. Home-grown produce provides improved nutrition too. This session focussed on how an individual can plant the vegetables, herbs using very less materials which are readily available at home. Session was very interactive & informative and was appreciated.
 
  Gandhi Jayanti Celebration Tata Consulting Engineers   
 
TATA CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIMITED, conducted "Gandhi Jayanti Celebration "online session with NGO partner "Door Step School (DSS)". Session was conducted in two slots covering 128 underprivileged kids through video calls for an engaging activity. Volunteers narrated the stories around the Teachings & Principles of Gandhi Ji, they virtually introduced kids to Charkha & explained how it symbolizes the Self- Reliance. Most of the activities showed & explained the learnings from Gandhi Ji's Life. Apart from stories, volunteers also showed few inspiring short video clips on Gandhi Ji's life, they also ensured that kids interact, hence they encouraged kids to share the learnings from the session. Overall the scheduled activities had been very much inspiring & interactive.
 
  DIY activity for children Indian Hotels   
 
At Taj Gateway Hotel Calicut, we celebrated TVW14 with a DIY activity for children on How to Make Paper Seed Pen. These pens are eco- friendly, made with recycle paper. Once the pen has been used, in can be planted into the soil, the seed will sprout from the bottom of the pen. Let's show the gesture of love for our Mother Nature.
 
  Plantation Drive Roots Corporation   
 
13 Volunteers from Ginger Ahmedabad participated in Plantation Drive. "The best time to plant tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now".
 
  Gift a Mask Roots Corporation   
 
Joy of Giving.We must give more in order to get more 13 Volunteers from Ginger Ahmedabad participated in Mask Donation.
 
  COVID-19 Awareness Drive Roots Corporation   
 
Protect Yourself and Your Community. 12 Volunteers from Ginger Ahmedabad participated in COVID-19 Awareness drive.
 
  Tree Plantation Tata Power Solar Systems Limited   
 
Tree Plantation was organized at Employees Residential Community Colony - Green Way Layout, Bingipura, Bangalore on 01.10.2020 and 04.10.2020. Employees with their Family members enthusiastically participated, and actively planted 200 saplings by 50 Volunteers, contributed 154 hrs in adding the greenery to the environment and made a huge impact on Community.
 
  Awareness campaign Amalgamated Plantations   
 
Awareness campaign was held amongst estate and Mal town people on 06th October'2020 by team Rungamuttee tea estate. Mask were distributed and people were informed about the necessity of wearing mask to avoid spread of COVID-19. Few pictures of the awareness programme are attached.
 
  Blood plasma donation Tata Consumer Products   
 
Six volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Aurangabad PC have donated their blood plasma after getting recovered from COVID-19. This blood plasma donation took place at Aurangabad Karmad Police station on 23rd September 2020. The blood plasma of these COVID-19 recovered patients will be used to treat other patients.
 
  Donation drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, Aurangabad PC have donated groceries to elderly people. Volunteers also provided them mask and had a short discussion with elderly to make them feel good.
 
  Virtual Vocational Session Indian Hotels   
 
Our Volunteers from Taj Bengal, Kolkata organised online Basic Housekeeping Training Programme from 19th September, 2020 for 20 underprivileged students from Ek Tara, Kolkata & Assembly God of Church Vocational School. The Volunteers had 10 chapters which included theoretical knowledge, practical experience, post COVID-19 Changes, New Normal & videos. At the end of the session an online examination was conducted and post that closing ceremony was organized.
 
  Let’s Draw Together Indian Hotels   
 
The volunteers from Taj Bengal, Kolkata organized a Virtual Drawing Competition for 10 students from Silver Point School on the topic, "Paint Your Dream". Students not only participated in the competition but while volunteers were calculating scores, students voluntarily requested to sing a song, recite a poem and shared their school artwork. It was a fun and an interactive session.
 
  Let’s Draw Together Indian Hotels   
 
The volunteers from Taj Bengal, Kolkata organized a Virtual Drawing Competition for 30 students from Susunia Ranibala Vidyamandir, School on the topic, "Paint as you wish". Students not only participated in the competition but while volunteers were calculating scores, students voluntarily requested to sing a song, recite a poem and shared their school artwork. It was a fun and an interactive session.
 
  Hygiene Session Indian Hotels   
 
The volunteers from Taj Bengal, Kolkata organized a Virtual Basic Hygiene Session for 60 students from Silver Point school & Susunia Ranibala Vidyamandir, School. This session included topics on basic personal hygiene, nutrition & cleanliness.
 
  Tern lagoon islands refurbishment Tata Steel Europe   
 
The Tata Steel site at Shotton is home to the largest colony of Common Terns (a protected species) in Wales. They nest on islands within a SSSI (site of special scientific interest) area of the works, and feed on the River Dee. The islands are less then 100m from the industrial activity. The colony is managed by The Merseyside Ringing Group (MRG), and started with simple rafts on the lagoons in 1970. Between 20-25 year ago 3 islands were constructed with membrane and stone, and mesh sides applied to deter foxes. Tata has provided ongoing support to the MRG for the last 50 years, in the form of SSSI management, routine pest control, monitoring and vegetation management. Over time the islands have degraded to a point where the colony is starting to suffer. MRG, in association with Natural Resources Wales, have been able to secure a Welsh Government Conservation Grant (£28k) to pay for putting a new membrane and stones (120T) onto the islands to refurbish them. Tata is supporting this conservation project through volunteering labour and management time, plus material costs.
 
  Yoga and Meditation Session Indian Hotels   
 
As part of TVW14, volunteers from Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad arranged a session on yoga and meditation for the students and teachers of PAWMENCAP School. It is school run for special needs children - they impart meticulous planned training in socialization, self-help skills, speech & occupational therapy, vocational training and rehabilitation for mentally challenged children of all severity levels belonging to all socio-economic strata. Mr. Sandeep, our yoga consultant conducted the session with Mr. Madhavi, our Spa Manager. They showed them very basic yoga asanas and meditation techniques which will help calm the mind and strengthen the body. They also covered few asanas and tips for building immunity specially in today's time of Pandemic. Around 20 students and teachers participated this session and were very happy to learn some new and useful things.
 
  Fun learning session Indian Hotels   
 
Ambassador, New Delhi initiated to organize a fun learning session for the blind students of NAB India, which is national association for blind. As part of the Tata Volunteering Week which started on 5th of September, 2020. We conducted an awareness session on Hospitality Sector with these children. The session was conducted by Ms. Sarika Sharda (HR Manager) and Mr. Himavan Verma (Learning and Development Manager) on 7th October, 2020. The session was for an hour and covered hospitality basics, the legacy of the TATA group, IHCL, importance of hygiene and cleanliness and the functioning of different departments in the hospitality sector. Children were extremely excited to know how various departments perform their duties to ensure smooth functioning of a Hotel. The children were very enthusiastic to learn something new and interacted during the session. Some of them shared their views during the session while others listened attentively. The children along with their coordinators posed lot of questions during the session. Everyone really enjoyed the session and thanked the team to engage and connect with them during these gloomy times.
 
  Disability activity Tata Consumer Poducts   
 
To celebrate TATA Volunteering Week 2020, Tata Consumer Products, Indore Team in association with WCT Team extended their support to those children who cannot see the world but can feel it, keeping the ethos of Work from Heart into consideration. "Krupalaya" - a part of National Association for the Blind who runs a blind School situated in the Village Dakachiya teaches blind students from nearby rural areas. They have approached the company for the basic help required to run the school during this pandemic situation. Company offered to whitewash the building to give new life to it as festive season is coming and students are going to join the institution after a long break of Lockdown. Also a voluntary activity done by the staff & labours and prepared the triple layered cotton handmade nose mask for the students. 100 nos of such masks were provided for the students. They were also in need of the Guide-sticks for assistance in daily activity hence management arranged the 15 sticks as well for them. This celebration gave inner peace and satisfaction to all the people involved and also the institution was very overwhelmed by the support received during the tough time.
 
  Donation drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteers from Tata Consumer Products, donated critical medicines, bandages and also fodder for the animals residing in the animal rescue and rehabilitation centre. The Centre has 3 branches in Bahadurgarh and houses all kinds of abandoned and injured animals, i.e. from cows to dogs to birds to monkeys and cats. It was heartening to see the organization having taken up such a noble cause Apart from this in the present COVID-19 times, face masks and disinfectant agent was also donated to the centre for distribution to their staff and field workers who are always in danger of being exposed to the perils of COVID-19.
 
  Health & Hygiene awareness Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services   
 
Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd. CSR and NGO [TRCSC] volunteers organized campaign for Health & Hygiene and Sanitation Management at Household in Anandpur village. Anandpur village women participated very well in this campaign.
 
  Education activity Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services   
 
Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd. CSR Education department volunteers. From 28/9/2020 to 6/10/2020 [excluding Sunday and festival day] daily volunteer teacher gave classes of Bio - Science subject to class IX & X students of S.N High School and UHS Dugni one hour continuously through Google -Meet, so that the COVID-19 epidemics did not stop the students' studies. Get through this initiative, satisfaction of students was achieved.
 
  Interaction with Gram Pradhan Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services   
 
Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd. PHS volunteers organized interaction with Gram Pradhan for Community development at Beguadih, Potka. Gram Pradhan was insured by volunteers' team that for the development of the village, especially for Health & Hygiene and educational support, the company will always be on its side.
 
  Quiz Competition Tata Motors   
 
Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd. HR/IR, Real Estate, Education, Legal, F&A, DE&TP ICCC, COR&PR department volunteers organized Quiz Competition with the students of UHS Dugni, Balika Uchh Vidyalaya, Oriya Middle School, UMS Anandpur and Parbatipur. In the Quiz Competition, questions were asked from current affairs, geography, political Science, etc., in which students participated very much. The UHS Dugni winner eventually happened. The prize was announced to all participants by TSUISL volunteers. Since this initiative was done by Google - Meet, the volunteers decided to deliver the prizes of the students through the school as per convenience.
 
  COVID-19 Prevention Awareness Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services   
 
Tata Steel Utilities and Infrastructure Services Ltd. PHS, CSR department and NGO [TRCSC] volunteers organized COVID-19 Prevention Awareness Session at Anandpur village. In this session volunteers for awareness in which the villagers were told how we can protect ourselves to a great extent from this epidemic. Volunteers also explained how we can make sanitization in our homes by making sanitizer, how should we use mask and change the mask at how many intervals. Meanwhiles, the villagers also removed many doubts related to COVID-19.
 
  Mask Distribution Drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
As part of Tata Volunteering Week 14, Tata Consumer Products, Sampla PC as part of Phase 3 activity returned to "Sir Chhotu Ram Government College for Women", Sampla. There were around 200+ staff & students who were given 3 layered cotton masks in an envelope with the Slogan "We Care for You - Stay Safe". The beauty of the whole activity was that the special masks that were distributed was arranged from Swastha (a school for the differently abled) managed by the Coorg Foundation. The activity was concluded over 2 days with a dedicated team of 8 volunteers from Sampla Packeting Unit actively participating in this programme. The Principal of the college was present on the said day and expressed her gratitude to Tata Consumer Products Limited for having organized and facilitated these activities in her institution.
 
  Sampla Packeting Tata Consumer Products Limited   
 
Tata Consumer Products Limited , Sampla Packeting Centre in collaboration with Gau Dhan Sewa Samiti, Bahadurgarh with the theme " Work from Heart" on 3rd October 2020 On this day, Sampla Packeting Centre team donated critical medicines, bandages and also fodder for the animals residing in the animal rescue and rehabilitation centre. The Centre has 3 branches in Bahadurgarh and houses all kinds of abandoned and injured animals, i.e. from cows to dogs to birds to monkeys and cats. It was heartening to see the organization having taken up such a noble cause Apart from this in the present COVID 19 times, face masks and disinfectant agent was also donated to the centre for distribution to their staff and field workers who are always in danger of being exposed to the perils of COVID-19.
 
  Session on Digital Payment Tata Consumer Products   
 
As part of Tata Volunteering Week 14, Tata Consumer Products, Sampla PC as part of Phase 3 activity returned to “ Sir Chhotu Ram Government College for Women”, Sampla. There were around 200+ staff & students who were given 3 layered cotton masks in an envelope with the Slogan “ We Care for You – Stay Safe” . The beauty of the whole activity was that the special masks that were distributed was arranged from Swastha ( a school for the differently abled ) managed by the Coorg Foundation. The activity was concluded over 2 days with a dedicated team of 8 volunteers from Sampla Packeting Unit actively participating in this programme. The Principal of the college was present on the said day and expressed her gratitude to Tata Consumer Products Limited for having organized and facilitated these activities in her institution.
 
  Session on Water Conservation Tata Consumer Products   
 
The volunteer from Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore Office distributed vegetable saplings within his residential complex to encourage vegetable gardening.
 
  Facilitating Water Services in the Community Tata Consumer Products   
 
The volunteer from Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore Office distributed vegetable saplings within his residential complex to encourage vegetable gardening.
 
  Session on career guidance Tata Consumer Products   
 
Volunteer from Tata Consumer Products, Bangalore team took a session on career guidance. 3 screesnhots of 3 different sessions (Career in Sales & Marketing , Human Resources and Information technology) are attached herewith.
 
  Plantation drive Tata Consumer Products   
 
Tata Volunteering Week (TVW 14) a Program of volunteering activities was conducted on 7th October 2020 at “Kellyden Madhyamik Engreji School” – Kellyden Middle English School , P.O Salana , Dist Nagaon 782139 with the following activities.
 
  *This update covers only some of the activities undertaken by companies.
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