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Welspun CSR Times- December 2017

Founder’s Day Celebration

1. Vapi- 2nd December was celebrated as

Founder’s Day in honour of Late Shri.

G.R Goenka like blood donation, eye

check-up camp, senior citizens visit at

plant and family get together of

differently abled associates at plant.

2. Anjar- Classical dance by specially

abled workers of Welspun city on

‘Krishna- Radha’ and ‘Save the

Environment’ theme was performed at

Babuji’s Memorial in Anjar.

3. Mandya- Blood donation camp was

organized on 27th December under the

supervision of Apollo BGS Hospitals,

Mysore.

4. USA- Collected 75 presents and gift

cards for children with special needs at

Children’s Hospital in USA. They also

had put up Christmas Angel tree to

sponsor families of disabled children

5. Mumbai- Employees visited Jai Vakeel

Foundation, an Ngo working with

physically and mentally disabled

children and donated 50 hand towels

for them to embroider and thereby

contributed in providing them with

vocational opportunity.

On account of celebrating Founder’s Day, World Disability Day was

celebrated at different sites including Anjar, Vapi, Mandya, USA and

Mumbai. Various welfare activities were undertaken across locations:


Education

1. Nurturing Knowledge Level of

Children in School:

Learning camps were organized in 5

schools of Anjar, Vapi and Dahej. A

baseline assessment of 388 students

was conducted (from standard 3rd to

5th). 156 children were identified to

have low levels of learning and are

provided with intervention to improve

their grasping power. On an average, 3

hours sessions are conducted every day

to nurture their reading and arithmetic

skills. Door to door visits are made to

ensure parents are aware of the child’s

performance in school.

2. Digital Interactive Education Program

Training to make classroom sessions

interactive through digital software is been

imparted to teachers of three government

primary schools at Vapi and Dahej. Basic

information on how to operate the

software, its features that make classroom

sessions fun- filled were introduced to

teachers in the training.

3. Parent’s Meeting

Parents’ meeting was organized at

Shantidham Primary School. The purpose of

the meeting was to discuss learning levels

of the children with their parents as well as

the school management. There was also a

discussion on what could be done to make

parents active in facilitating the library

activities. 40 parents attended the meeting.

4. Library Activities

Library activities were conducted in 13

villages targeting 623 students from

Std. 3rd to 8th. 95 parents and 69

volunteers facilitated the entire

process.


Empowerment

1. Sports Women Sponsorship Program

Sanjivani Jadhav, an international long distance runner who hails from a village near

Nasik is being sponsored by Welspun. In December 2017, Jadhav won a gold medal in

10,000 mt running at the All India University Games that took place in Guntur, Andra

Pradesh. She has clocked her personal best time - 33:14:16 minutes breaking meet

record.

2. Sanitary Napkin Unit

Aakar Innovation team from Mumbai had visited the centre at Vapi to examine the raw

material used in making napkins and plan strategies to improve the pad quality making

it user- friendly. Also, the market linkage plan in order to increase the sale of napkins

was discussed in the meeting.


Environment

1. Awareness Program - An awareness

program was organised at Lohariya village in

Anjar. The theme of the play was based on

fight against malnutrition in adolesent girls

& children and how can it be curbed using

home cooked food, imbibing healthy habits

& maintaining cleaniness around. The

villagers, Primary school students, teachers

and Sarpanch showed their active

participation in the play

2. RO Drinking water - A 500 LPH RO plant

was inaugurated at Khambhara village in

Anjar & 250 LPH Ro plant was provided at Vidi

Primary School. Approximately a population

of 200 at Khambhara village & 450 students

of Vidi Primary school will get benefit from

this initiative.

Health

1. Project Navchetana – Training with the volunteers was conducted in 10 villages of

Anjar and 5 villages of Vapi. Focused group discussion was conducted by the

volunteers with adolescent girls on ‘food items to be prepared at home to increase

their haemoglobin count’. Height and weight monitoring is done on regular basis of

0 to 5 years old children.


Model Village- Ajapar & Kharapaswariya

Education

English Learning Program- English classes in

primary schools of both the villages have

started from standard 5th to 8th. Total

students covered in the program are 200.

Basics like alphabets and numbers are being

taught to the students currently.

Empowerment

WFHK conducted a meeting with the

Gram Panchayat members of Ajapar

village. The DRDA and Mission Mangalam

team was also present for the meet to

give their inputs. The agenda for the

assembly was planning of solid waste

management and livelihood activity to be

conducted for the villagers.

Environment

1. Water tanker was provided in the villages

for sustainable plantation

2. Meeting with the village farmers was

conducted to discuss on the steps to be

taken for the cleanliness of their village.

Essential Infrastructure- Ajapar

Completed- Street lights installation,

painting of primary school building and

chamber cover of both the villages.

Work started –Construction sequence for

Paver blocks and Anganwadi construction

In Process- Road construction, Main gate,

Gram Panchayat Shade and gutter line

connection for primary school

Essential Infrastructure- Kharapaswariya

Completed- Street lights installation

Work started – Shade for cow shed, boundary

wall and mid-day meal shade for primary

school

In Process- Wall painting, Chamber cover, Main

gate and water tank for cows in shed.


Model Village- Morai, Vatar and Vadadla

Morai

Wish list received from the Principal for

development of primary school.

Important finding- Morai village is selected

under Smart Village scheme of

government of Gujarat. The copy of the

application is also procured.

Vatar

Attended Gram Sabha and explained the

concept of Welspun’s model village program

Received list of differently abled villagers

Wish list received from principal of primary

school

Meeting was done with nurse at PHC

regarding repairing work of roof and general

discussion about the village health condition.

Essential infrastructure

Inspection of toilet blocks with civil engineer

Toilet block construction

Target: 900

Achieved: 800

In process: 84

Pending: 16

Currently construction is ongoing at

Morai, Tighra and Tukwada.


QUIZ TIME

Fill in the blanks

1. Learning level of children is improved by focusing on their

__________ and ________ skills

2. Aakar team visited sanitary napkin centre to bring ___________

to the pads

3. _________ and __________ are two model villages at Anjar

4. ______________ village is selected as smart village by Gujarat

government

5. Awareness program on ___________was organized in Lohariya

village

1. Dinesh Chopra , WCL

Anjar

2. Jigar Patel, WCL Anjar

and

3. Mohini Vegad, WIL Vapi

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