Partnerships
Accretive Health Services has joined hands with Smile Foundation to promote the cause of education through the Mission Education programme. Under the association, Accretive Health Services has extended its support in setting up of a new Mission Education centre in Gurgaon catering to the education, nutrition and healthcare needs of 200 underprivileged children. Accretive Health Services is engaged in the business of Information Technology Enabled Services, specialized in rendering backend Health care support services to US Hospitals.
This year Adobe associated with Smile Foundation by inviting 40 children from Mission Education centres to the Adobe campus in Bengaluru to spend a fun day with the employees engaging in activities like singing, dancing, yoga etc. The volunteers spent time teaching the kids about concepts such as Volcano eruption, Solar System, Plant & Animal cells and Major Land Forms through practical experiments. Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Their tools and services allow customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time and achieve greater business success. At Adobe, they believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. They are driven to inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact, and are passionate about inculcating the same in their Corporate Social Responsibility.
Amtek Group has joined hands with Smile Foundation for the third year, by extending its support to Mission Education programme. Amtek has already contributed towards the education of 200 children in the last two years, and going one step ahead, is rendering its support in ensuring education for another 200 children this year. Amtek Group is one of the world's largest global forging and integrated machining companies. The Group has operations across Forging, Iron and Aluminium Casting, Machining and Sub-Assemblies. It has 60 world-class facilities across India, UK, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Russia and US.
As part of its ongoing association with Smile Foundation, ANZ took up two challenging activities in the period. More than 100 employees from ANZ painted an entire school just in a day providing a more conducive environment for children at the centre. On a separate occasion, another 100 employees planted saplings of capsicum, beet root and tomato to create a kitchen garden at the Mission Education Centre supported by the company. The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited is an Australian Bank, with commercial and retail banking. They provide a range of banking and financial products and services to over 9 million customers.
Archana Kochhar extended her support towards the education and nutrition of girl children under Smile Foundation's Mission Education programme. Her participation in events like Ramp for Champs and Power Lunch helped not only to raise resources for the cause, but also to create awareness and sensitisation towards the special needs of girl children. Couturier Archana Kochhar has been showcasing her collection on national and international runways for over a decade now. Having revolutionized the bridal arena with her Indian and contemporary silhouettes and craftsmanship, Archana has slowly carved a niche for herself. From prêt to couture, ranging from innovatively styled and draped lehengas, saris, gowns, anarkalis and also luxe ready-to-wear range of tunics and kaftans, Archana Kochhar customizes each creation with zealous creativity and passion that is distinctively her own.
Blackrock Services India Pvt. Ltd. has renewed their association with Smile Foundation for the third year in a row. They are extending their support towards conducting health camps in the identified locations in Delhi NCR under the Smile on Wheels Programme. Also, they have lent their support towards the education of the underprivileged children across India. Headquartered in New York, BlackRock is spread across 30 countries and is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions.
Blackrock Services India Pvt. Ltd. has renewed their association with Smile Foundation for the third year in a row. They are extending their support towards conducting health camps in the identified locations in Delhi NCR under the Smile on Wheels Programme. Also, they have lent their support towards the education of the underprivileged children across India. Headquartered in New York, BlackRock is spread across 30 countries and is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through BlackRock Solutions.
Crown Worldwide Group has extended its support to Smile Foundation's Mission Education programme as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility. The pro-active employees from different locations of the organisation engaged with Smile kids celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, Dussehra and also spent quality time in creating informative posters. Crown Worldwide Group is a unified organization and diversified into various divisions providing complete relocations for multinational companies and governmental organizations and strategic assignment management services along with archiving, retrieval and secure management of information in physical and electronic format, encompassing many other impressive facilities to nearly 60 countries.
Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd. joined hands with Smile Foundation to support 20 new Smile Twin-e Learning Programme centres across Delhi/NCR and Mumbai. Under its purview of CSR, Ericsson has a special initiative called Connect to Learn, within which it implements Information and Communications technology (ICT) in schools in resource poor settings, to ensure that children, no matter where they live, have access to learning resources and a quality education. In line with their vision of education for everyone, the programme seeks to provide opportunities to youth to access learning resources that were previously unavailable to them. Within this initiative, in view of the growing numbers of unemployed youth in India, Ericsson is seeking to create employment opportunities for underprivileged youth. Ericsson provides services, software and infrastructure - especially in mobility, broadband and the cloud - which enables the communications industry and other sectors to do better business, increase efficiency, improve their users' experience and capture new opportunities.
Siddhomal Charitable Trust, the charitable wing of Inox Group has renewed their partnership with Smile Foundation for the third year. It will be supporting the education of 100 children across India under the Mission Education programme of Smile Foundation. Inox Group is a leader in industrial gases, fluorocarbons, multiplexes and cryogenic engineering from 1963. The Siddhomal Charitable Trust has been established providing health care, medical diagnosis, assistance and treatment facilities for the poor and the needy.
Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited (KNPL) has been supporting Smile Foundation to provide primary health services to the underprivileged through Smile Health Camps across India for two consecutive years. In total 59 health camps have been organised, with specific focus on casual daily wage labourers and workers from the unorganized sectors. More than 6000 workers have benefitted from the health camps. Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited, formerly known as Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd., was established in 1920. With over 90 years of strong presence in the paint industry, KNPL offers a comprehensive range of products both in Industrial and Decorative businesses.
OpenText has associated with Smile Foundation to educate underprivileged children from marginalized communities. The employees will be playing an active role in the partnership by volunteering at Mission Education centres and spending quality time & engaging with the kids on different occasions. Helping kids with their academics; basic concepts, theories and experiments from science & math projects are part of the volunteering activities. OpenText is a leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). Open Text EIM products enable businesses to grow faster, with lower operational costs, and reduce information governance and security risks by improving business insight, impact and process speed.
Patel Engineering Ltd. has joined hands with Smile Foundation in support of the Mission Education programme to bring young disadvantaged children under the fold of education. Patel Engineering Ltd., founded in 1949 is one of the most integrated infrastructures and construction services conglomerates in India, with a breadth of experience encompassing all sectors of the Infrastructure industry from dams, tunnels, micro-runnels, hydroelectric projects, irrigation projects, highways, roads, bridges, railways, refineries to real estates and townships. Corporate responsibility is not simply a policy at Patel Engineering, but a way of working.
Prudential PLC has joined hands with Smile Foundation to support education of underprivileged children under the Mission Education programme and young women under the Swabhiman programme. Employees from Prudential PLC will also be taking part in Employee Engagement activity and the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2016, under the partnership. Prudential UK is a leading life and pension provider to approximately seven million customers in the United Kingdom. Prudential PLC is an international financial services group with significant operations in Asia, the US & the UK.
Reliance Capital - Commercial Finance has extended support to Mission Education programme for the second year in a row. Its support this year will ensure quality education and nutrition for 303 underprivileged children in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. Reliance Group is among India's top private sector business houses serving over 250 million customers across telecommunications, power, financial services, infrastructure, media and entertainment, and healthcare sectors. Reliance Commercial Finance is a member of the Reliance Capital family with an operational presence over 80 locations in India and a product suite comprising of Business Expansion loans, Property loans, Vehicle loans, Construction Equipment Loans, Infrastructure, Microfinance and Agriculture Loans.
Schenker India has joined hands with Smile Foundation under the Mission Education programme. Under the organization's CSR initiative, they are supporting the education of 120 underprivileged children across India for a year. Schenker India (DB Schenker India) offers a complete range of international air & ocean freight services as well as integrated logistics services and global supply chain solutions from a single source supported by its strong worldwide network comprising of 2000 locations.
Seagate has partnered with Smile Foundation to support the education of 100 children. As part of the association, volunteers from Seagate visited Mission Education centres in Bengaluru and Pune to spend an engaging and fun learning day with the children, where they also mentored the students in a Math and Science challenge. Seagate is the global leader in data storage solutions, developing amazing products that enable people and businesses around the world to create, share and preserve their most critical memories and business data. Seagate is building on its heritage of storage leadership to solve the challenge of getting more out of the living information that’s produced every day.
Soie has partnered with Smile Foundation to support the education of 500 girl children for a year under the Mission Education programme. Soie also came on board as the Powered by Sponsor for the 9th edition of Ramp for Champs held in Mumbai. Soie, derived from the French word for silk and pronounced as swa, or self in classical Indian philosophy, is Ginza's own quality lingerie and apparel for women. Soie redefines style and quality for India's young, restless and vibrant fashion conscious generation, spearheading a fashion consciousness that defines how beautiful is to be "me" for a whole generation.
Tractebel Engineering, India has joined hands with Smile Foundation to provide education to underprivileged children as part of their vision of an educated India. Going forward with their commitment, Tractebel Engineering is supporting 120 children under the Mission Education programme, taking care of their needs of education, books and school uniforms for the next one year. Tractebel Engineering, a business unit of GDF SUEZ Energy Services, is a global engineering consultancy company with more than 100 years of expertise in energy and infrastructure projects. Headquartered in Brussels (Belgium), Tractebel Engineering has offices in 33 countries and projects in over 140 countries.
United Health Group has joined hands with Smile Foundation for rendering primary health services to the underprivileged population living in the slum clusters of Delhi and Hyderabad, under the Smile on Wheels mobile hospital programme, for the second consecutive year. The project will be providing a wide range of curative, preventive and promotive health services, with a model envisaged as an efficient and cost effective health delivery system for the community. United Health Group is a diversified managed health care company headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S. It is No. 14 on Fortune magazine's top 500 companies in the United States.
Webhelp India, the Indian chapter of Webhelp UK, partnered with Smile Foundation in support of the Disaster Response Programme, to aid the earthquake victims in Nepal. Webhelp India organized a series of charity fundraising activities to support the people of Nepal. Following a week of games, dress down, sponsorship and collections, the team raised funds which were then matched by Webhelp India. Webhelp India was formed as a Professional Services and Live Chat centre of excellence for the Group's operations in Europe and South Africa. By combining competitive commercials, operational excellence and proven value add services; its approach is to deliver solutions aligned directly to its clients' objectives.
Zappy has partnered with Smile Foundation through the cause related marketing mode to support the education, health and welfare of underprivileged children in India under Mission Education. With the aim to bring smiles on innocent faces and spread happiness, Zappy will reach out to the rural masses and initiate several projects and activities in Mumbai as well as Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Zappy is a product of Anand Bhog Foods Pvt. Ltd. Established in the year 2000, Anand Bhog has always emphasized on offering food products that are 100% pure quality food products. All Zappy products are made with natural ingredients with a special packing that retains their freshness and taste. Plus, every recipe is carefully selected to give the best in taste and health.
