Education
Making a Difference
- We reach out to well over 100,000 students through our network of formal and non-formal educational institutes. Of these, girls constitute 50%.
- Over 450,000 school children in the hinterland have been provided with solar lamps.
- We foster the cause of the girl child by supporting 52 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (residential schools for girls). We also foster Population First Foundation’s programme Laadli for girl child advocacy and support.
- At our 56 schools across India, we provide quality education to 46,500 children. Merit Scholarships are given to 32,000 children from the interiors. Over 28,000 children in the hinterland of India are being taught conversational English to build their confidence.
- We support projects for the differently-abled in Baroda and Odisha. In Baroda, we are connected with M. S. University, which conducts an annual sports event for the differently-abled through their association ‘Prayas’. In Odisha, we are linked with ‘Swabhiman’. They conduct a skills and personality development programme for 400 children from the urban poor/slum households, which is completely funded by us.
- We are transforming 20 schools in Rajasthan into model schools.
- Over 450,000 school children (Grade V to XII) in 31 remote blocks of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Odisha have been provided with solar lamps.
- Through KHEL (Knowledge Hub for E-Learning), 7,500 students across 50 schools in Maharashtra, MP and UP learn English, Maths, and Science using game pedagogy multimedia methods.
- Our project Gyanarjan coaches 1,000 underprivileged students for Board level and CET competitive examinations. Besides this, our plant teams mentor around 2,000 students appearing for Board exams. We also tutor students for the government-run Navodaya schools’ entrance tests.
- We have set up a midday meal kitchen in the Keonjhar district of Odisha, facilitating the provision of midday meals to 63,000 children in 268 schools every day, along with transport facilities. Furthermore, we sponsor midday meals for 50,000 children in 625 schools, across Lucknow, Jaipur, Mysore, Bengaluru, Surat, Vadodara, Puri, Cuttack, and Ahmedabad.
Integrated Child Development Services
MGNREGA
National Rural Drinking Water Program
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
Renewable Energy Development Program
Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
Rural Livelihood Mission
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
At The Macro Level
To embed CSR as a way of life in organisations, we have set up the FICCI - Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence, in Delhi.
Ongoing education, healthcare and sustainable livelihood projects in Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt, Korea and Brazil, lift thousands of people out of poverty.