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Integrated Annual Report 2021-22 REPORT REPORTS STATEMENTS
Promoting Inclusive
Development

Ensuring environmental integrity Building social capital

Protecting biodiversity for a Striving towards a water-positive 8,379 Enabling inclusion and Tribal Villages. Okhai facilitates sustainable 12,141
better world world empowerment of vulnerable livelihoods for artisans, and Ncourage
People covered through environment sections Women covered under empowerment
We run biodiversity conservation We undertook land development and projects promotes animal health and nutrition, and programmes
programmes relating to coral reef, whale Jal Dhan (water management and We are undertaking programmes to access to safe drinking water. Our USA
sharks, mangroves and indigenous flora conservation) programmes in Gujarat support Women, Scheduled Castes entity undertakes social programmes to
and fauna, along with environmental and Maharashtra that are focussed on 1,70,000 and Scheduled Tribes. Under the Tata support single mothers, senior citizens and 70,000
education initiatives at Mithapur through groundwater recharging, harvesting Mangroves planted - Mithapur and Affirmative Action programme, we are children in need. In Kenya, we engage with People covered under various Affirmative
C-SCAPES. These are aided by our by building check dams and revival Sundarbans working with tribals to create Model the youth through sports. Action programmes
partnership with eco-clubs in local schools. of community ponds. In Magadi, we
Our ‘Save the Whale Shark’ project includes successfully desilted main and temporary 37 (till date 850)
studies of its habitat, migratory pattern and intakes. In Mithapur, TCSRD-formed SHGs Other initiatives
breeding biology. We have also promoted operate the dry waste processing plant. Whale Sharks rescued We have proactively supported local communities and the government during the entire COVID-19 pandemic through FY 2021-22
greening in Mithapur and Sundarbans by with medical infrastructure, vaccination drives, and awareness campaigns. We provided relief to disaster-hit people in Maharashtra and
planting 1.7 lakh mangroves. 581 million ft litres Gujarat. Ample opportunities (through both digital and physical modes) were provided to employees and their family members to
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Total water harvested through Jal Dhan volunteer for social causes.

Enablers for social, economic, and environmental development Mithapur breaks stereotypes

Healthy and prosperous programme has helped 9,035 children Nutrition programme Mithapur has taken a significant step towards breaking
communities with enhancing their learning capability, gender stereotypes by initiating programmes to
We regularly organise health and nutrition alongside strengthening the community 3,465 train women in operating forklifts and community
camps under our ‘Holistic Nutrition’ project school management system. Haemoglobin test for women and transport vehicles including buses and autorickshaws.
in Amravati and Barwani. This project adolescent girls Trained and hired by TCSRD, 20-year-old Bharti Vagha
targets child health enhancement in the We provided scholarships to 54 students became the first woman in Okhamandal taluka to
first 1,000 days. We have covered 10,270 in Kenya from secondary schools and 64,827 drive a bus. She drives our HP World On Wheels
women and children in our health and colleges and commissioned a computer Students supported (online classes, (WOW) bus, which is a flagship initiative to conduct
nutrition programme across locations. laboratory to encourage digital education. scholarships, quality of education: 55,792; computer and science classes for students and youth
In Kenya, we support Magadi Hospital in Our USA entity supported local schools Learning and Migration programme: 9,035) on a 20-seater computer-equipped and IT-enabled
extending healthcare services to the local and colleges in organising a science vehicle.
community. TCE helped to raise money fair and a math contest to promote She has been driving the bus regularly for 15 months
for St. Luke’s Hospice through fundraising STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering 668 to various schools of Okhamandal. Now, she is not
activities organised by volunteers. and Maths). Families supported with drinking water only financially independent and able to self-fund
and toilets - Mithapur
Encouraging education and Safe water and better sanitation her graduation, but she is also inspiring other young
empowering children Our Swachh Tarang project facilitated 11,770 girls to take up unconventional jobs and make their
Our educational programmes aim to access to clean water for 11,770 Families supported with drinking water parents and community proud.
improve the quality of education and households in FY 2021-22. We are also (Swachh Tarang) “I take this bus to village schools to educate the
ensure zero school dropouts. In working to improve rural sanitation children, which has increased my confidence and
FY 2021-22, we supported 55,792 children through behavioural change programmes, inspires other girls too. I am also learning computer
through physical and online classes, Swachh Bharat Mission Cleanliness 6,805 skills on this HP WOW Bus.” - Bharti Vagha
digital lessons, scholarships, videos, and Drives and construction of toilets and Malnutrition screening for children
WhatsApp groups to ensure continuity sanitation units.
of education. Our Learning & Migration

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