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On the occasion of international
volunteer day, Moser Baer Trust
organized a week-long campaign
for sensitizing its associates
towards social and environmental
issues and concerns. The
campaign included several
activities in various locations
and culminated into the annual
CSR event called “Sangam-
Celebrating partnership”.
To strengthen and recognize
the spirit of volunteerism and
to reinforce Moser Baer’s
commitment towards society, Mr.
Deepak Puri, our Chairman &
Managing Director, announced
that the week starting 29th
November to 5th December will be
celebrated as Moser Baer Social
Responsibility Week every year
from now onwards. The campaign
was launched with release and
sharing of various thematic
posters on CSR and community
development with the associates
by Mr. Deepak Puri. The entire
week was full of employee
centric and community based
activities related to
environment and social issues.
1. World AIDS Day
To reinforce our commitment to
the UN Millennium Development Goals and reaffirm our
belief in ILO guidelines on Workplace HIV/AIDS
initiatives, an awareness generation activities were
conducted, red ribbons were pinned and efforts were made
to cover maximum possible number of employees. It is
interesting to note that over 2000 ribbons were made by
the women at our Aakar livelihood centre.
3. An online CSR quiz was
organized where a total of
4004 associates participated.
Out of 15 questions, 869
associates have given 11-14
correct answer on CSR quiz. Of
these, 27 associates attempted
all questions correctly and
scored 100% in the quiz. 4.
International Volunteers Week
As part of the Volunteership
promotion programmes employees
from plant locations
participated in slogan writing
and poster making competitions
on socially relevant themes.
Street theatre performances in
Kakrala by 2 teams from A-164
were very well received and
appreciated by the villagers and
the Trust team. They also
conducted a few competitions for
Taleem centre girls.
Efforts made by the Teams at
A-164 and PV to conduct these
activities deserve especial
applaud from all of us. For
their efforts and initiatives
the teams were recognized
promoting Volunteerism at
workplace.
The week long campaign concluded
with organization and
institutionalization of SANGAM,
the annual CSR event of MBT.
This was a confluence of our
community development programs
to felicitate the partners,
myriad volunteers and
beneficiaries of various
programmes. The event included
valedictory ceremony of Taleem
(literacy) project and Cine Art
film making training programmes,
Felicitation of NGO, Government
and other institutional partners
including local panchayats.
The MBIL Teams which have always
been very cooperative and
supportive of all our community
development and CSR programmes
were recognized as “Friends of
MBT” for their voluntary support
often beyond their day to day
professional work. These were
M&ES Production team led by
Mr. Rahul Agarwal, A-164 Admin
Team led b y Mr. Ajay Saxena, IT
team led by Mr. Muthu Kumar,
Corporate Communications team
led by Mr. Abhinav Kanchan and
Admn team of GN led by Mr. VB
Lal.
The event also witnessed the
launch of 3 new projects of MBT.
STEP (Step towards
Environment Protection): a
programme towards safe disposal
& recycling of CDs and DVDs,
with the support of teams led by
Mr. Shivnath and Mr. Deepak
Shetty. PAHAL (Promotion
and Advancement of Health and
Livelihood): A programme for
Promotion of health and
livelihood of rural women, with
MBT’s first external funding
support from NABARD under Rural
Innovation Fund YUVA (Youth
Unfolding to Various Avenues):
An employability skill
development training programme
for youth Girls from Taleem
project performed a Puppet show
on “Importance of Education”
which was highly appreciated by
all. Apart from representatives
from NASSCOM Foundation,
NABARD, PVR, ICARE, NFCH
(Ministry of Affairs, GOI)
Panchayats, local schools and
healthcare providers, MBIL
associates,
the District Chief
Development Officer, Dr. Sarika
Mohan, also addressed the
invitees.
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