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Cleaning and painting a girl’s school
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Amalgamated Plantations | Assam
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Employees from Amalgamated Plantations at Assam volunteered to clean the surrounding
of the Girl’s M.E. School at Hattigor, which was established in 1989. They also
undertook the painting of the school’s walls, doors and windows. A school teacher
also joined hands with the volunteers in the activity. After the activity, refreshments
were provided to all of them.
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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Ginger Hotels | Agartala
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22 Team members of Ginger Hotel Agartala volunteered in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. They
cleaned the neighbourhood and the surrounding area next to Industries Department.
All team members were enthusiastic during the drive. The surrounding thereafter
looked clean and beautiful.
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Skill development training for students
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Ginger Hotels | Agartala
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Members of Ginger Hotel Agartala conducted a skills development training for students.
The employees invited students from Orion Edutech under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana (PMKVY) and educated them about hotel industry & its various departments.
Volunteers shared their experience and trained the students specifically about F&B,
HK, FO operations etc. The students interacted with all members and benefited from
this event.
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Cleanliness Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Bangalore
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The employees of Ginger Hotels at Bangalore teamed up to organize a cleanliness
drive. The drive included cleaning of the bus stop and the general walk way that
was used by all commuters. The activity lasted for an hour.
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Blood Donation Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Bhubaneshwar
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The employees at Ginger Hotels Bhubaneshwar organized a blood donation camp in partnership
with the Indian Red Cross Society at Odisha. A total of 25 people volunteered for
the activity which lasted for 5 hours.
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Cleanliness Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Bangalore
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Employees from Ginger Hotel Bangalore organised a cleanliness drive near Qualcomm
and at the pathways which mainly the office public uses. The activity lasted for
an hour and received a good response.
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Blood Donation Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Nashik
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Ginger Hotels at Nashik organized a blood donation camp for their employees. A total
of 17 employees participated in the drive.
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Cleanliness Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Chennai
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A team of 15 employees from Ginger Hotels, Chennai organised a cleanliness drive.
The employees volunteered to clean the area outside the hotel as well as the neighbourhood.
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Blood Donation Drive
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Ginger Hotels | Vizag
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A team of employees and their family members from Ginger Hotels at Vizag volunteered
to participate in the blood donation camp which was conducted in association with
the Rotary Club of Vizag. The camp saw a turnout of 21 volunteers and 25 units of
blood were donated by the end of the camp. The volunteers were recognized with certificates
and gift tokens for their participation. The Public Relations Officer from the Rotary
club appreciated all the donors and thanked the hotel management for organizing
the activity.
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Cleanliness drive
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Ginger Hotels | Mangalore
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Volunteers from Ginger Hotels, Mangalore organized a cleanliness drive adjacent
to the hotel. A team of 34 employees participated in the activity. The drive lasted
for 2 hours and the volunteers undertook cleaning of the footpath, water sewage
and the public road.
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Spending time with children
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Infiniti Retail | Mumbai
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The employees of Infiniti Retail at Mumbai visited Snehasadan – an NGO that provides
shelter to the homeless street children. The children are rescued from the streets
and allocated a home. The homes provide them a shelter, food, family and education,
thus giving them hope and an opportunity to carve a future. A total of four volunteers
from the Support Office of Infiniti Retail interacted with the children. Snacks
were distributed and along with that provisions like soaps, detergent, disinfectants,
biscuits, and dry snacks were given. This contribution was voluntarily made by some
of the employees from the organisation.
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Swachh Bharata Abhiyan
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Ginger Hotels | Mysore
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A clean environment is a happy environment. A Swachh Bharat Abhiyan cleanliness
campaign was conducted by the Staff and Vendor/ Partners of Ginger Hotel Mysore
on the Vasanth Mahal Road. The staff decided to clean the walking pavements which
were filled with garbage such as waste paper, plastic, bottles, cigarette packets,
etc.
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Preserving heritage
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Indian Hotels | Chennai
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Connemara Public Library at Egmore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is one of the four National
Depository Libraries which receive a copy of all books, newspapers and periodicals
published in India. Established in 1890, the library is a repository of centuries-old
publications, wherein lie some of the most respected works and collections in the
country. It also serves as a depository library for the UN. Under the theme of Preserving
Heritage Monuments, it was decided to assist in upkeep of the library. To kick start
TVW 7, associates across all departments enthusiastically participated in the first
activity viz Cool to be Clean. This activity comprised of shifting, arranging and
indexing of books in one section of the Connemara Public Library.
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Cleanliness Drive
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Indian Hotels | TamilNadu
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The Nilgiris Library, Ooty is a Heritage Site which houses books pertaining to the
British Era and dates back to 1867 AD. This building is located in the heart of
the town a place which needed maintenance and upkeep in and around its surroundings.
The lawns in front had over grown shrubs in the front of the entrance and needed
uplift in terms of its beautification. Around 20 volunteers from Taj Savoy at Ooty
took up to this spot for a cleanliness drive. These volunteers removed around five
bags of garbage which comprised of bottles thrown all around the library periphery
and cleared all the dry leaves, plastics and garbage lying around the premises.
This was a first phase of the cleanliness drive to spruce up its entrance and the
project way forward was also plant a few flowering plants in front of the library
to give its entrance a welcoming appearance. The garbage that was collected was
safely disposed. The Library authorities complimented the efforts taken by Management
and the Staff of Taj Savoy, Ooty team and appreciated their work in showing a concern
towards the society and living up to the Tata values by giving it back double fold
to the society as driven by their pioneers.
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Founder’s Day Celebration
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Rallis India | Akola
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Rallis Akola volunteers inaugurated the TVW-7 campaign with celebration of 178th
birthday anniversary of our founder Sir Jamsetji Tata. The activity was conducted
at Blue Lotus English School. The students remembered our founder by their speech
and committed to follow the values and ethics of Tata’s.
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Science intervention programme
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Rallis India | Lote
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Rallis Lote Volunteers along with a Science Intervention Consultant arranged a science
subject projects session at Z P School, Matwadi, Songaon. In the session 6 group
of students presented their projects like Longitudinal Waves & transfers waves,
Conduction of Heat & Absorption of Heat, model of string telephone and Chromatography
colour separation method. A total of 28 students participated in the session.
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Safety Awareness
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Rallis India | Akola
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Rallis Akola celebrated National Safety Day. A total of 12 employees volunteered
in a programme wherein they communicated health and safety tips to all their workers.
The participants also took a safety oath on the day.
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English literacy development programme
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Rallis India | Lote
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Rallis Lote Unit Volunteers along with an English Literacy Development Teacher organized
a session on English Literacy Development Programme at Nutan Vidyalaya, Lote for
their 6th Standard students. The volunteers covered topics like basic word formation,
its meaning in Marathi, correct pronunciation of words with its meaning and helped
the students to write down the words on the board. The volunteers also actively
participated in the session by checking the words in student’s books, helping them
to make proper words, to read and write the words in the board etc.
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#TataPledge Campaign
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Tata Consultancy Services | London
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This year, Tata Consultancy Services, London is running a #TataPledge campaign,
wherein they are encouraging employees to participate by sharing their plans to
do something good, e.g. "I will volunteer in the community #TataPledge", "I want
to learn CPR and teach my family as well #TataPledge", or "This year, I will exercise
more and log my efforts in Fit4Life #TataPledge".
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Blood Donation drive
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Mumbai
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120 volunteers donated blood at the Blood Donation Camp organised by TCE in association
with the Blood Bank of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. This is the 10th year of
the camp and this is organised every year on the occasion of Founder’s Day. Volunteers
included TCE employees along with family and ex-employees.
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Safe Drinking Water awareness
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Tata Motors | Jamshedpur
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TVW 7 was ceremoniously launched with Senior Leaders, Employees and Union Office
Bearers paying floral homage to the statue of Founder. The day saw inauguration
of a RO Plant commissioned at village Hurlung with funding support by AIWC (Golmuri
Club Branch), a social organization that carries out myriad philanthropic initiatives,
managed solely by wives of Senior Executives who are the members. Head- Jamshedpur
Plant, Senior Executives and members of AIWC had an interaction with the beneficiaries
of the safe and portable drinking water which constituted village ladies, gents,
Mukhia, Pradhan and children. In the evening three types of scholarships were given
to students studying in schools, colleges and professional institutes, majority
of who belong to Affirmative Action communities and Alankar Awards were given to
individuals, teams and social organizations for their outstanding contributions
in various fields like social work, academics, promotion of agriculture & allied
practices amongst farmers, creative art & literature, sports, music and others.
Beautiful dance and singing performances enthralled the audience at the evening’s
cultural programme by special children of Asha Kiran School, children from Little
Flower School and in-house and professional singers.
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Blood Donation Drive
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Tata Power Delhi Distribution | Delhi
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TPDDL, in association with Indian Red Cross Society, organized a blood donation
camp at the Training Centre. The camp had a registration of 162 motivated and enthusiastic
employees of which 104 units of blood were collected. TPDDL is a corporate donor
of Indian Red Cross Society and have been recognized regularly for the contributions
made by the employee volunteers in saving lives in distress.
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Celebrating 46th National Safety Week
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Tata Power Delhi Distribution | Delhi
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Safety Department of TPDDL, organized the inaugural ceremony for 46th National Safety
Week, at DU Grid Sub-Station, Hudson Lane. Being a power company, safety is of utmost
importance. The aim was to disseminate information regarding importance of safety,
at all times, whether at work, on road or even at home. The event witnessed an active
participation of 200+ volunteers.
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Awareness programme on Right to Education and Cleanliness Drive
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Tata Sponge Iron | Odisha
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A group of volunteers from Tata Sponge conducted an awareness program on “Right
to Education” and undertook cleaning of UGME School & Annagnwadi premises at Bileipada,
where more than 70% students are from Schedule Tribe and Schedule Caste communities.
In this process the Head Master, teachers, ICDS Supervisor and Anganwadi workers
also joined in the mission. The students were motivated to attend classes regularly,
enjoy their study, motivate and bring other dropout children in the neighborhood
to attend school, practice hygiene and keeping their surrounding clean.
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Theme Based Session at Vocational Training Centre
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Tata Power Delhi Distribution | Delhi
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A session was organized on Importance of Ethics & Values at Vocational Training
Centre – Lal Bagh, Model Town. 30+ beneficiaries benefitted from the valuable knowledge
shared by 3 volunteers. The session also witnessed an experience sharing dialogue,
from daily life, both from the volunteers and the beneficiaries.
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A visit to the hospital and blood donation
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Tata Steel Processing and Distribution | Kolkata
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TSPDL volunteers visited the Tata Medical Centre, a hospital whose mission is to
promote the prevention and cure of cancer patients and provide rehabilitation and
palliative care to them. A special emphasis is given to children suffering from
cancer. The volunteers of TSPDL organised various programs for the children which
included showing of cartoon film, drawing activity, origami, magic tricks, singing
songs etc. The volunteers also donated blood at the hospital. The program was concluded
by distributing goodies to the children and their parents.
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Launch of volunteering week
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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On the occasion of JRD’s birth anniversary, Tata Technologies Team launched Tata
Volunteering Week 7 in the presence of senior colleagues who also shared their personal
experiences with the employees.
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Blood Donation Drive
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies, Pune organized a blood donation drive at their corporate office.
The objective of the camp was to raise awareness about road safety. About 150 employees
donated blood to support the cause.
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Launch of TVW7
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TML Drivelines | Jamshedpur
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The Volunteering Week was launched at the Transmission (Unit - B), TML Drivelines,
Jamshedpur, on the auspicious occasion of Founder's day. Senior leaders and over
300 employees of TML DRIVELINES were present. The event embarked on by paying homage
to the Founder and lighting of lamps. It was followed by proliferation of Chairman's
message on TVW 7, which enlightened the pathway for achieving the next level of
volunteering. All the dignitaries shared their views on the subject and pledged
to do their part for the cause. Also, a video which rewound all the activities that
were done in TVW 6 was played, beautifully collating the concept of "Count me in"
to "Chase the Change". Last, but not the least, all the employees vowed to support
and do their part to make this edition a mega success.
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*This update covers only some of the activities undertaken by companies.
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