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Food drive
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Tata Chemicals | North America
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Tata Chemicals North America is running a food drive for the month of October to
support a local food bank that distributes food to families with little or no income.
The drive is just getting started this week, but already there’s great participation
from Tata Chemicals employees.
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Visit to Nirmalya Hridalaya
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Tata Metaliks | Kharagpur
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Nirmalya Hridalaya is run by Missionaries of Charity and provide shelter, food,
medicine to the old age residents. The employee of Tata Metaliks meet them on a
monthly basis. The employees collect donation for inmates. They played games and
sang songs along with them.
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Cleanliness drive
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Tata Metaliks | Kharagpur
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A sense of responsibility was evoked among the employees of Tata Metaliks through
the Clean India Movement. Employees of Tata Metaliks organized an awareness rally
on Swachch Bharat Abhiyan in two villages. Fifty employees has participated in the
rally.
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Visit to a children's home
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Tata Metaliks | Kharagpur
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Employees of Tata Metaliks on the eve of Durga Puja, collected donations from colleagues
and purchased 100 t- shirts, fruits, biscuits, cakes & sweet for the residents of
Brothers home, Missionaries of Charity and distributed among them in an attempt
to bring smile on their faces.
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Grooming future hoteliers on safety
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Ginger Hotels | Bhubaneshwar
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Ginger Hotel Bhubaneshwar team welcomed the future hoteliers from the Xavier Institute
of Hotel Management, Cuttack and provided them with a skills training on Housekeeping,
Safety and Fire Fighting, Food and Beverage Service. The group of 26 students were
divided into 02 groups and complete hotel tour and orientation was provided. The
Hotel Manager briefed the students on Sustainability and what hotels like Ginger
and Taj Group are doing to save water and other depleting resources. The Hotel Safety
Team displayed the several PPE that are used and also demonstrated Fire Fighting
systems. The Restaurant Manager briefed the students on the F&B operations and also
trained them on various Napkin folding. The Unit Sales Manager presented the students
about the Ginger Hotels Brand Promise of SCB4 (Safety, Cleanliness, Bed, Bath, Breakfast
and Broadband). The Students were also offered refreshments by the volunteers of
Ginger Bhubaneshwar.
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Cleanliness drive
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Tata Motors | Lucknow
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The volunteering initiative continued with active involvement of 50 employees of
HR. The volunteers headed by GM (HR, ER & Admin) along with other employees conducted
a cleanliness drive at the plant periphery area. Volunteers from HR departments,
age groups and gender come to join hands in their cleaning gears during the early
morning hours. The group divided themselves and picked up areas for clearing out
the garbage on the roads.
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Door to door awareness on sanitation
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Tata Motors | Lucknow
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The volunteers conducted door to door awareness in four villages of Barabanki District
sensitizing people about the sanitation and cleanliness in order to protect dengue
and other diseases. The volunteers along with the Village Pradhan counselled the
villagers and children of the primary school on need of cleanliness and hygiene.
They were also involved in the fogging drive aimed at dengue protection conducted
in the village
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Making a loose boulder structure on a stream
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Rallis India | Lote
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A group of 6 volunteers went to Gavthan village and made a Loose Boulder Structure
on a stream coming from a waterfall with the help of few farmers of the same village.
Recently Rallis has completed a Hydro Power Generation Project here. The purpose
of making loose boulder structure is to store the natural rainwater in the same
area so that this can be recharged to the ground and also be used for cultivation
purpose of vegetables in the paddy field.
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Book donation drive
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Bangalore
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Through book donation drive, nearly 150 books have been collected from employees
and handed over to food4thought.com. It was a great initiative which gave everyone
a chance to help the children.
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Visit to an orphanage
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Ginger Hotels | Pune
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The volunteers donated a wheel chair for 43 physically disabled children's & women.
They also celebrated the birthday of a child and distributed some sweets, the volunteers
helped school with serving regular medicines to all physically disabled children
and spent time with the residents of Prerna Bhavan (orphanage & Physically disabled
school).
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Visit to a home for cancer patients
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Titan | Mumbai
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Volunteers from the Regional Office and stores- Zoya and World of Titan, visited
Shri Gadge Maharaj Mission Dharamshala Trust, Dadar - a home to underprivileged
cancer patients who come from across India to Tata Cancer Research Hospital, Mumbai,
for treatment. Volunteers spent some time interacting with the patients and their
families and distributed clothes and biscuits.
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Awareness on how to improve school
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Tata Technologies | Bangalore
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A volunteer with the help of resources from Tata Technologies conducted a Campaign
and awareness program on "How to Improve Government Schools" 151 people attended
along with many Government School Teachers, Heads of Institution, representatives
from Education office. Mr Chiranjeevi Singh - Former IAS Officer attended the program
and spoke about improvement of Government Schools.
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Walkathons for sensitization of common masses
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Tata Power Delhi Distribution | Delhi
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Cultural clubs of Tata Power DDL, Udaan & Abbhudaya organized walkathons on various
themes of Safety, Climate Change, Electricity & Energy Conservation to sensitize
common masses at Hudson Lane & Bawana. The CEO & MD, Tata Power – DDL motivated
the volunteers with his presence and whole-hearted participation at Hudson Lane.
The event was also attended by Senior Management Officials. In total 410 volunteers
took part in these 2 walkathons where they carried banners/placards carrying messages
along with slogans based on the themes through public address system.
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Blood donation drive
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Tata Technologies | Bangalore
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A blood donation camp was organized at the office. 29 Units of blood was collected
with the help of 52 volunteers during the event which was supported by Red Cross
Society and People Health.
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Road safety awareness
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A team from I Blast Furnace organised safety awareness on safe driving and road
safety awareness campaign was an effort to engage the community and help change
unsafe behaviour on the roads. The campaign encourages drivers to slow down, use
helmets and not to use mobile phones while driving. People who travel in unprofessional
way were requested to use road safety measures and follow traffic rules by giving
them roses.
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Launch of School on Wheels program
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Pune
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If children can’t come to school; we’ll get the classroom to them. Tata Consulting
Engineers launched the School on Wheels program in association with NGO partner
Door Step School. The interior of the bus is remodeled into a classroom, designed
by TCE engineers, which will go to different areas in Pune to conduct classes. The
bus is primarily for the kids of migrant workers who work on construction sites
and often have to move from site to site, thus making it difficult for the children
to get consistent education. The Managing Director along with the BU heads at Pune
office, inaugurated the Bus in the office premises. The bus was then taken to a
site, where the first class was conducted and the kids got to interact with the
MD and other senior leaders. The employee volunteers distributed snacks and stationery
kits to the children.
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Spending time with children
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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Officers of Khondbond project visited a Primary School, Guruda village and spent
some time with children and distributed Kitchen utensils. Team Noamundi visited
a Primary School and sponsored the lunch to the students
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Conducting ‘Communication skills’ session for the youth
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Indian Hotels | Hyderabad
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Volunteers from L&D and HR conducted a session on “Communication Skills”. They both
explained the students about its importance and significance. To stay ahead in today’s
competitive world one should develop his/her communication skills as it may be one
of the most defining skills to set you apart from the rest of the world. To make
them understand they conducted various activities such as JAM sessions, role plays
etc. The students really enjoyed the session as it turned out to be an excellent
opportunity for them to learn and enhance their skills.
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Visit to a zoo
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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I BF JDC organized an Educational Trip to Zoological Park for 55 students of Primary
School, Hariyakocha, Boram (adopted by I BF). The children were very excited to
see and know more about the wildlife. Despite the humid weather, children explored
every nook and corner, in complete awe. Their first close encounter with the lions
and tiger during the visit brought out roars of happiness. The visit was followed
by a sumptuous lunch at Jubliee Park where children enjoyed eating together in the
garden with their friends. The outing with the children was filled with joy, excitement
and will be cherished forever by the children as well as the volunteers.
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Health check-up camp
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A team from West Bokaro visited the village and organised ante-natal check-up camp
& awareness on proper disposal of domestic waste for the villagers.
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Visit to a children's home
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A team from Mechanical Maintenance JDC visited Shishu Bhawan interacted with the
children and spent some time. They also distributed daily use items. A team from
LD#1 visited Bal Vikas Baridih and interacted with the students. Under Joy of Giving,
the team distributed school stationaries to the children.
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Plantation drive
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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A tree plantation drive was organised by the CRM Bara team at CRM Bara Complex.
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Joy of giving
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Tata Business Support Services | Hyderabad
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25 Tata BSS volunteers visited Mother India Orphans home in Secunderabad. They donated
a double bed cot along with several mattress to the institute. The volunteers conducted
several games, quizzes and danced along with the kids. Before leaving they distributed
floor mats, food items, clothes & stationary to the kids.
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Helping the visually impaired
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Tata Business Support Services | Mumbai
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‘Help Blind’ group in Mumbai organizes a camp every Amavasya (no moon day), where
around 1500 visually impaired from Mumbai and other states gather in this camp.
Volunteers helped the residents with food, groceries and clothing. The family members
of the VP volunteered to help the group. On the day of camp, meals were organized.
The volunteers spent the day in the camp for service, prepared food for them and
donated valuables to them.
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Wish tree for children
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Ginger Hotels | Mumbai
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A wish tree was placed at the office for Sarthak Foundation. This foundation takes
care of visually-impaired, hearing-impaired & speech-impaired children between 7
years to 20 years of age and few adults. This tree had unfulfilled wishes of these
children written down on a slip of chart paper tied with a thread to it. Each one
had to pluck a chart paper slip and buy what is mentioned on it or may offer an
equivalent amount. There was a collection box kept next to the tree and all the
gifts would be collected in it the next day.
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Donating wheelchairs
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Tata Consultancy Services | Kochi
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A TCS team at Kochi donated four wheel chairs to Karunalayam, Home for the Aged,
Destitute and Infirm at Thrikkakara, on the outskirts of Kochi, The International
Day of Older Persons. Karunalayam has more than 40 residents.
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School supplies drive
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Tata Chemicals | North America
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Tata Chemicals donated to the Child Developmental Center, Sweetwater County School
District #1 and #2, Uinta County School District #4 and #6. In all, the volunteers
donated nearly $2000 worth of school supplies to these 5 area school districts.
They were all very grateful and all mentioned that this has already been a difficult
year for some of the kids and these supplies will help many.
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Visit to a children’s home
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Indian Hotels | Andhra Pradesh
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The Gateway Hotel, Vijayawada team led by the General Manager and the Heads of the
Department along with the volunteering associates, served lunch for the underprivileged
children from Chiguru children's village, a project for children for care and protection.
They will provide primary education and vocational training center for boy and girl
who are not able to continue their education. 15 volunteers from the hotel team
distributed food among the children and staff.
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Promoting overall development of tribal children
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Tata Sponge Iron | Odisha
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The volunteers interacted with the students in UGME School at Birikala most of them
are from tribal communities. The volunteers motivated these students to pursue education
and also to focus on co-curricular activities for their all-round development. Also,
these students were encouraged to identify the children are engaged in labour in
their villages and try to bring this issue to the knowledge for their teachers,
PRI members and Parents for their enrolment in schools. Moreover, the teachers were
encouraged to sustain their great effort for the betterment of these children from
the underprivileged communities.
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Cleanliness drive
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Tata Sponge Iron | Odisha
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The women group of Tata Sponge Township gathered to remember the contribution of
Gandhiji towards the Clean & Green India. Thereafter, they undertook a cleanness
drive within the township.
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Awareness on Child Friendly Police and Child Protection Issues
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Tata Sponge Iron | Odisha
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Police Station In-charge of Joda along with the volunteers from Tata Sponge coordinated
the topic on, “Child Friendly Police and Child Protection Issues” for more than
150 students from Govt. High School and Saraswati Sishu Mandir situated at Bileipada.
The Police Officer explained the students on the critical role that has been played
by the Police to protect the children and civil society from various crisis. Students
were made aware on various aspects of Child protection issues those arises at home,
community, street, school and elsewhere. Moreover, they were empowered to discuss
these issues with their parents and other duty-bearers with whom they feel comfortable
to decimate their crisis, rather holding those with them for long and becoming complicated.
This was a first ever kind of programme conducted by Tata Company in this block,
according to the Police department, Teachers and other local leaders, present there.
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Training hotel management students
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Ginger Hotels | Nashik
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Team Ginger Nashik visited TLM VTC Nashik to offer soft training in Hospitality,
Safety and hygiene. They interacted with more than 100 students in different segments.
Computer section briefed them about soft training of hospitality & others departments.
They also arranged safety and hygiene training (Motor mechanic, Diesel mechanic,
Printing, Electric etc). TLM VTC is providing training to the leprosy affected,
BPL & EWP children since 1980 under NCVT and Maharashtra Govt courses.
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Plantation drive
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TML Drivelines | Jamshedpur
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Flora Horticulture supported the event by providing varieties of plant saplings
& digging the pockets. This event witnessed participation from 40+ volunteers belonging
to different departments who gathered to plant more than 350 saplings. The Mfg.
Head along with senior executives inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling; which
was followed by volunteers taking up shovels & watering hose to fill the earth pockets
with saplings. On this occasion, volunteers also took an oath to protect the environment.
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Session on health and hygiene
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Rallis India | Ankleshwar
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The program was conducted at Sardar Patel School, Ankleshwar by volunteers of Rallis
India Limited, Ankleshwar. More than 100 students and their teachers participated
in this session. Health, personal hygiene, safe drinking water, use of toilets and
how to keep it clean were the topics dealt with during the sessions. At the end
of the session children were asked to recollect what they have learnt. The participants
were encouraged to disseminate the information to their families and peers in their
locality and the schools where they study.
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Plantation drive
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Rallis India | Ankleshwar
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“Let’s Grow Our Own Oxygen”, an idea that was discussed, planned and executed. It’s
never as easy as it sounds to organize an event to plant 50 saplings. The volunteers
started digging pits, some collected manure and some started planting, water it,
more importantly to spread the awareness- the main focus of the green events.
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Conducting a yoga session
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Rallis India | Ankleshwar
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Yoga is more than a simple workout session. It’s a spiritual journey to self-discovery
and to the present moment- the only moment that truly exists. 5 volunteers from
Rallis Ankleshwar thought to spread the awareness of Yoga. They organized a Yoga
session at Kanya Shala, Andada, Ankleshwar. There are more than 50 girl students
participated in this event.
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Making seva sandwiches
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Tata Communications | Mumbai
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Tata Communications, Mumbai employees volunteered to celebrate "Joy of Giving Week"
by making sandwiches, an initiative of compassion. The event began with employees
peeling, slicing and dicing vegetables, spreading butter and jam on bread slices
and packing the finished product nicely in aluminium foils. The enthusiasm and excitement
that rose among volunteers was palpable. 53 volunteers prepared 321 sandwiches within
3 hours. These sandwiches were distributed in the community of Maharashtra Nagar
(BKC). The event ended up bringing smiles to the beneficiaries and volunteers went
home receiving twice the number of smiles!
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Blood donation camp
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Tata Communications | Pune
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Tata Communications, Dighi, Pune employees, guided by the principle of community
welfare, organized a blood donation camp to mark the Joy of Giving Week. The donors
went through a series of medical check-ups before donating blood and were given
refreshments, a memento and a certificate of appreciation for this service to humanity.
The event was a great success with 228 employees turning up for the cause.
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Cleanliness drive
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Ginger Hotels | Bangalore
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37 Volunteers from Ginger unit and RSO team carried out this cleanliness drive.
They cleaned the public main road and surroundings of the hotel premises.
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Science Intervention Class
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Rallis India | Gujarat
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A guest lecture by a consultant was organised by Rallis India Ltd Dahej Unit in
schools having practical experiments of the science subject for STD 6th to 8th.
The Consultant took lectures in Ambhetha Primary School, Atali Ashram School and
all children took active participation in the activity. The activity mainly focused
on understanding principles behind the science experiments. Each of the student
got chance to do practical shown by the consultant.
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Traffic Awareness Day
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies in association with Hinjawadi Industrial Association and Pune
Traffic Police organised a support #HumanChain4Traffic for discipline drive for
Pune employees. This initiative was organised in the occasion of Traffic Awareness
Day. President Coo-north America Kick started the program and more than 380 employees
came on ground and participated and supported the drive. This activity was held
in support with Pune Traffic Police department where the entire Hinjawadi Traffic
police department joined us to form a Human Chain of more than 2 lakh people across
the city. Employees took a pledge to follow traffic rules strictly after the program.
Police department Head conveyed thank you message to Tata Technologies employees
after the drive.
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Drawing competition for children
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Rallis India | Gujarat
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Dahej Unit organised a drawing competition on save environment at Lakhigam Primary
School. A session on importance of burning issue like environment was held. More
than 200 Students even children participated in the activity very actively.
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Sports Kit Donation
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Tata Technologies | Jamshedpur
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Tata technologies Jamshedpur Team undertook TVW6 activity at Government School and
distributed Sports Kit which included Badminton rackets, Badminton Cork, Badminton
Corks, Badminton Cork, Skipping Ropes, Tug of War Ropes, Ring Rounds, Dari Sets
for Yoga. Kudos to Team Jamshedpur.
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Tree plantation drive
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Rallis India | Akola
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Rallis Akola volunteers visited Z.P.School at Malkapur – Khadan and conducted a
tree plantation drive for nature conservation. 6 volunteers participated and the
school management shown keen interest for protecting the plants towards their contribution
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Blood group check-up
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Rallis India | Akola
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Blood donation is a very important in our social life. To have a data bank ready
with us for any emergency requirement, the Rallis Akola volunteers organised a blood
group check-up camp at factory for the contract workers. The total 7 volunteers
participated in the activity and around 150 workers taken the benefit of the activity.
The list will be provided the local blood bank for any emergency requirements.
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Cleanliness drive
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Indian Hotels | Cape Town
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Employees and their families scattered along the beaches of Sea Point and Mouille
Point Cape town to pick up the litter that is overlooked and harmful to the marine
animals and marine life.
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Cleanliness drive
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Indian Hotels | Chennai
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Volunteers at Vivanta by Taj – Fisherman’s Cove, Chennai joined hands with all Taj
Properties of Chennai to conduct a cleanliness drive at Marina Beach, Chennai.
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Career counselling session
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Jamshedpur
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TCE Jamshedpur Office team visited Kerala Public School, Kadma for a career counselling
session for students of Class 12. The aim was to apprise the students about the
importance of choosing the right career path. This was followed by anecdotes by
the young engineers - volunteers who shared their personal experience with the students.
The kids were also informed about the myriad of career options that they could choose
from, after completing their school. The volunteers felt that such guidance would
help the young generation choose the right career as per their interest.
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Visit to a children’s home
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Tata Elxsi | Bangalore
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A group of fourteen volunteers from Tata Elxsi Bangalore visited Rainbow Home. The
centre now has 89 kids. They played indoor and outdoor games with them after dividing
the kids into different age groups. Children enjoyed the painting and craft competitions.
Tug-of-war was a hilarious one as usual. The volunteers served lunch for the kids
and also had lunch with them. Post lunch, the volunteers screened inspirational
videos on Mahatma Gandhi and conducted a quiz on Gandhiji. The day ended with high
tea. They day-long interaction provided good experience to both sides along with
lots of fun and sweet memories.
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Career counselling session
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Tata Motors | Jamshedpur
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Employee Volunteers from Central Planning, HR & PS and other Divisions went to the
Government Primary School at Kero village and spent time by engaging with the children
and teachers. They interacted and took an interactive and educational session on
'Value Education' with the children. Then they walked through the village, visiting
houses and conducted a campaign on 'I Refuse Plastics'. The village is predominantly
inhabited by communities belonging to the Affirmative Action section.
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Visit to an old age home
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Tata Motors | Jamshedpur
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Employee Volunteers from Vehicle Factory went and interacted with the residents
of the Antyodaya Bhavan, the Old Age Home being run by Tata Motors and spent emotional
moments to extend solidarity to them. The residents are mostly advanced in age,
both male and female. The volunteers spread cheers amongst the residents and distributed
fruits, sweets and bed sheets to all the residents.
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Career counselling
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Tata Motors | Pantnagar
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The volunteers from different departments conducted the counselling and mentoring
session for the government girls students enrolled to special coaching classes being
run at government girl’s high schools. The mentor explained the journey/ladder of
higher studies with an objective to understand the level of challenges and constraint
in each stage. The girls were highly inspired to have a coaching facilities in the
remote rural area. The volunteers also donated greens books for the library, where
students will have familiarities about the biodiversity through greens books.
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Road safety awareness
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Tata Motors | Pantnagar
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Tata Motors Pantnagar trained DDT trainer conducted a driving training for the novice
drivers coming from the slum area of the district. The trainees were from diverse
group and showed deep interest in safe driving.
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Interaction with school students
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers from Tata Power Solar visited the Government primary school - Gollahalli
– Bangalore and imparted knowledge on the importance of the education. The team
also conducted a quiz programme on important topics which included- health, environment
protection and safety to help ignite the students mind. The volunteers donated diary
books to all the 180 Students in the school.
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Awareness on health
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Power solar visited Govt Primary School at Dodda Nagamangala
along with the company doctor & imparted health talk, awareness about the dengue
and malaria. Knowledge of rain water harvesting was also imparted. A detailed question
& answer session was addressed by the volunteers & doctor. The team also visited
the entire campus of the school & supported the school authorities by a cleaning
campaign with the students. The school authorities have requested for a need of
computer lab for the students which Tata Power Solar has agreed to provide shortly.
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Cleanliness drive
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers from Tata Power Solar visited the Government primary school - Parappan
Agrahara – Bangalore and conducted a cleanliness campaign at the school premises.
180 students participated. The team also conducted a quiz programme on important
topics which included- health, environment protection, safety and the winners were
suitably recognized by rewards. Also awareness related to physical fitness, health
& hygiene was conducted
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Road safety awareness
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers from Tata Power Solar conducted a road safety awareness at a busy
traffic junction – Hosa road junction – Bangalore. The safety team designed a pocket
tip card about road safety, do’s & don’ts, statistics of road accidents, pedestrian
safety, speed limits. The volunteers also distributed driving safety rules. This
whole activity was done in consultation and the advice of the Traffic police department
– 400 people were reached with the road safety awareness campaign which included
the two wheelers, 4 wheelers and truck drivers.
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Health awareness campaign
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Power Solar visited – Ambedkar Colony – Near Electronic City
– Bangalore and conducted a road show and health awareness campaign to the slum
dwellers. Awareness on how to prevent dengue, malaria & other communicable disease
was imparted. The need for healthy eating was also conveyed. The importance of drinking
pure water was one of the important subject discussed. The volunteers distributed
fruits & essentials for the people.
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Driving safety campaign
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers from Tata Power Solar conducted a road safety awareness at a busy
traffic junction – Toll Plaza Electronic City – Bangalore, the safety team designed
a pocket tip card about road safety, do’s & don'ts, statistics of road accidents,
pedestrian safety and speed limits. This whole activity was done in consultation
and the advice of the Traffic police department – 600 people were reached with the
road safety awareness campaign which included the two wheelers, 4 wheelers and truck
drivers.
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Environment protection drive
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The Volunteers from TATA Power Solar conducted an Environment protection drive at
a Residential colony in Mylasandra Bangalore. The team campaigned on the subject
like forest restoration, bio diversity and rain harvesting methods and its benefits
to the environment. Water usage, saving & conservation was also discussed. Quiz
programme was conducted on the above topics for awareness creation. The volunteers
planted over 200 saplings along with the residential colony which involves all age
group form children to elders.
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Awareness session on health
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers of Tata Power Solar visited Govt Primary School at Mysoorammana Doddi
in Bangalore and conducted many community development initiatives & health, hygiene
& sanitation awareness. The team donated safe drinking water purifier to the school.
The volunteers conducted a cleanathon exercise which included painting of the walls,
swachch abhiyaan and tree sapling plantation. Quiz program on the above subject
was conducted and all the participants were suitably rewarded.
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Energy conservation awareness
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Power solar visited Govt Primary School at Mylasandra and conducted
an energy conservation awareness session to the students. The topic covered were
disadvantages of fossil fuels, advantages of using renewable energy including solar
energy. The volunteers conducted quiz on the energy conservation and the winners
were awarded.
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Awareness session on health
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers of Tata Power Solar visited Govt Primary School at Thimmarayana Doddi
in Bangalore and conducted many community development initiatives & health, hygiene
& sanitation awareness. The team donated safe drinking water purifier to the school.
The team offered mid-day meal to the students for the day
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Environment and bio-diversity campaign
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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The volunteers of Tata Power Solar visited a residential community – Sai Paradise
layout and conducted an environment & bio diversity campaign to the residents of
all age from children to the adults. Water conservation and Rain water harvesting
awareness session was conducted, simple techniques of rain water harvesting were
demonstrated. Quiz for the children was conducted related to the above subject to
ignite & inculcate young minds towards environment & bio diversity. Tree saplings
were distributed to the community encouraging them to convert their residential
to green spaces.
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Health awareness
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Power Solar visited Vimochana Nagaraj near Electronic City –
Bangalore and conducted a road show and health awareness campaign to the slum dwellers.
Awareness on how to prevent dengue, malaria & other communicable disease was imparted.
The need for healthy eating was also conveyed. The volunteers distributed fruits
& essentials for the people
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Blood donation camp
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Tata Power Solar conducted a Blood donation camp at the manufacturing plant in Electronic
City Bangalore. People from all segment of work volunteered for donating the blood
which include Permanent Employees, Trainees and Contract Workmen. In this blood
donation camp TATA Power solar could manage to donate 52 units of blood to Swami
Vivekananda Blood Bank. The donors were congratulated for their contribution by
the senior management
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Yoga session
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Tata Power Solar | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Power Solar conducted a yoga awareness camp at Sree Vinayak Samskruthika
Prathistana – HSR Layout - Bangalore. The benefits of Yoga was communicated and
the important asanas were taught to the participants
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Blood donation drive
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure | Mumbai
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited organised a Blood Donation Drive at the Infinity
IT Park, Dindoshi, Malad (East) office with doctors from Arpan blood bank, a 'Not-For-Profit'
organization attending to the donors. Arpan blood bank provides free blood to ‘Arpan
thalassemia care center', Vile Parle & Nashik, where on an average everyday 6 to
8 children receive blood transfusion. About 92 units of blood was collected during
this drive.
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Awareness on cervical cancer
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure | Mumbai
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited partnered with Cancer Patients Aid Association
(CPAA) to conduct a workshop on spreading awareness and screening of Cervical and
Prostate Cancer at Backbay Sarvajanik Ganeshostav Mandal at Churchgate. CPAA doctors
and volunteers attended to the people and provided them with advice on the ill-effects
of tobacco, etc. Investigation reports to be sent in due course.
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Blood donation camp
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure | Mumbai
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Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited conducted a Blood Donation Camp at Backbay
Sarvajanik Ganeshostav Mandal, Opp. Samrat Hotel, Churchgate with doctors from KEM
Hospital attending to the donors, collecting about 20 units of blood.
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Visit to a non-profit
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies SAP Team Leads visited the Punarutthan Samarasta Gurukulam to
understand the requirement of the school for donation drive. Team of volunteers
are planning to provide financial help to the NGO for Tata Volunteering and Joy
of Giving Week.
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Visit to an Old Age home
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Volunteers visited Matoshree, an Old Age Home at Karve Nagar to spend fruitful time
with the group of senior citizens. Families and friends of the volunteers also visited
the old age home along with them. An IT Application Support executive at Tata Technologies,
Pune planned and organized this event
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Donation of dental kit and soap
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies volunteers along with family members distributed 350 Tooth Paste,
tooth brush and Soap Kits to underprivileged school children. Employees also celebrated
their birthdays by donating utility kits.
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Diya making workshop for school children
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies volunteers along with few family members conducted a diya making
workshop for school children. Volunteers also spread awareness related to eco-friendly
Diwali and safe practices while celebrating the festival.
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Road safety awareness
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The Tinplate Company of India | Jamshedpur
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An awareness program on fire and domestic safety was organized for the community
girls and ladies. The Head (Security Services) along with 5 employees from Tinplate
Company conducted the session for this awareness program. This program was specially
designed for home-makers and girls to know various precautions and remedial measures
to prevent fire at home especially in the kitchen and also how to control the situation
if there is a fire incidence at home. 30 ladies and community girls attended the
program and understood the importance of fire and domestic safety.
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Blood donation camp
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Voltas | Jamshedpur
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Voltas Limited, Jamshedpur organised a blood donation camp where NH Brahmananda
Narayan Hospital's Blood Bank Division had been requested to collect the blood.
The program was a huge success as more than 60 employees came forward to donate
blood. However after the medical test 41 employees were allowed to donate blood.
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