CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY(CSR)

Ujjivan recognises the challenges faced by the PWDs, especially the youth community in finding employment due to various reasons like poverty, lack of exposure to education & opportunities, stigma & discrimination etc.

While the employment opportunities are growing within the city, PWDs fail in meeting the demands of industry in terms of required skill sets, especially, without a professional skill background, basic English and computer skills, they find it extremely difficult to get employed on equal terms.

Towards enabling PWDs which equal opportunity employment, Ujjivan, in partnership with Cheshire Disability Trust has been identifying, counselling, training and placing them in appropriate companies and industries in line with their choice of interest.

In 2020-21, we trained 100 beneficiaries in Karnataka and placed 59 of them in the retail & hospitality sectors with an average salary of Rs. 12,500/- per month. These were placed with Amazon, Fernster, TVS, R Process and Leepra Technologies.

We continued our partnership with Cheshire Disability Trust in 2021-22 to empower 200 more PWDs in Jamshedpur & Mumbai locations. Out of the 200 trained candidates, we could place 124 of them with Square Meal foods, Quess Corp, Bellona Hospitality Services, DHL Logistics etc.

Through our association with Divya Nur Foundation in Bhubaneshwar, we offered livelihood training to 100 unemployed youth affected by Fani & Yass cyclone in 2021-22 and successfully placed 59 of them in the retail sector like Khadims, HDB Finance, Hunger Box, Monginis, Veggiekart, etc. The training aimed at imparting basic computer knowledge, English language skills and retail industry domain knowledge.

Our partnership with Savera society in Purnea, Bihar, we have installed 16 machines to make significant change in the lives of rural women on techniques for manufacturing jute and banana fibre products including jute bags. This empowerment serves another noble social cause. By training more people in the making and use of such biodegradable products, we are also helping to build an alternate ecosystem for sustainable products.

Though the initial batch consisted of 50 women, this initiative has continued to add more and more beneficiaries.

While Ujjivan has contributed towards renovation of several PHCs / hospitals under Chote kadam, the bank has been contributing significantly in the health care domain making the health care facilities available and affordable to the challenged sector of the society.

Ujjivan contributed for 6 High Dependency Unit (HDU) Beds at St. John’s hospital when it was critical when several patients were rushed to HDU during the second wave of Covid benefitting hundreds of patients.

Ujjivan partnered with Marwari hospitals in Guwahati to provide Pediatric and Neonatal Setup to help children’s treatment.

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the world, disrupting the health and economy making things worse for those struggling to make ends meet. However, the primary threat was to people’s health. At the onset of Covid, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank partnered with the non-profit organization – Give India Foundation to supply 5500 PPE kits to hospitals in Mumbai, to support doctors, nurses and hospital support staff members in addressing the issues faced by the end beneficiaries across India.

In 2020-21, we extensively worked towards supporting communities during the pandemic with over 26 projects across India being executed, also benefiting the frontline workers (doctors and paramedical staff, police personnel, corporation and municipality workers and transport workers). We dedicated 52% of the CSR expenditure towards the cause and reached ~7,74,000+ public, 49,000+ police personnel, 10,500+ hospital staff, 12,100+ corporation/municipal/panchayat workers and 200 transport workers. We distributed materials such as masks, sanitisers, dry ration, sprayers and PPE kits, among many.

In 2021-22, as part of Covid relief measures, the Bank had initiated activities such as distribution of beds, bedspreads, oximeters, oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders, ITU beds, Ventilator beds, PPE kits, gloves, mask, thermal scanners, COVID safety gears for frontline workers, etc. which includes funding for 6 ITU beds to St John’s Hospital, Bengaluru and 40 D Type oxygen cylinders to CMC Vellore.

We created a program with the help of our internal team and launched the Ujjivan Sanjeevani Kavach Program to vaccinate the public in our operational areas. The program was successfully executed at 478 operational areas and we were able to inoculate over 80,000 vaccines through PHCs, UPHCs, Government Hospitals & privately set-up camps.

We also started a COVID-19 education programme, primarily designed to create awareness about the pandemic. It provided information on how to remain safe, RT-PCR testing and relevant government insurance schemes and clarified misconceptions. More than 3,57,000+ beneficiaries were trained across the country.

Partnered with Maithree Society, and adopted an education centre in Chennai, which works with children, who are categorised as persons with intellectual and developmental disability (PwIDD). The centre has 45 children with special needs, and they have purchased two smart boards with grants given to them.

Helped the Maria Nivas School in Harihara, Karnataka, to set up an IT laboratory. We have donated 18 computers to the school, and this initiative will benefit the school’s 1,100 students.

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank contributed Rs.10 lakhs under its CSR program, and the direct cash transfer helped 200 visually challenged families. Through this aid, families were able to arrange their daily needs such as food, medicine and other essentials.

Further to our efforts in extending better healthcare, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank has directly carried out support activities across 19 states in the country. We mobilized the regional executive committees of the bank to execute COVID-19 relief activities through the branch network. Through this network, we supported the front-line workers from healthcare, the police, municipality/panchayat workers, including bus drivers. Various relief material was distributed to the unserved and underserved public, such as PPE kits, dry rations, masks, gloves, sanitizers, sprayers, spraying vehicles, etc. The result was tremendous, impacting over 8,39,500 lives.

As part of the COVID-19 Education Initiative, over 3,57,000 people, including customers were trained on basic protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19, with a host of benefits made available to them. The program also saw over 2,60,000 masks distributed and resulted in the enabling of 55,000 Arogya Setu App downloads.

As the first step towards cleanliness, we identified the dirtiest streets and areas in the locality. After that, we cleared the debris, garbage dumping areas, and littering spots. To further ensure that these clean spots don’t turn into a sorry state again, we painted the walls. We went hand-in-hand with the local community and the municipal bodies to monitor the clean areas and assure that it doesn’t turn into a garbage dumping spot again.

In addition to that our bank's employees reached out to local schools and involved little children in our cleanliness campaign. Involving children in this social cause raised awareness in the little ones, and they realised the importance of maintaining a clean environment. Many schools supported the drive and even organised awareness marches with placards designed by their students.

The Swachh Neighborhood projects have witnessed overwhelming participation - volunteers, including Ujjivan employees, students, members from the local community and municipal authorities. We also carried out our Project Swachh Neighborhood in Pune Municipal Corporation areas. Later, Pune Municipal Corporation organized ‘Swachh Puraskar 2019-20’ and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank bagged the consolation prize in the Best Swachh Private Organization category.

As a part of our partnership with ProVision Asia, we distributed specially designed 40 wheel chairs amongst the differently-abled community in Bengaluru. Our partner helped to identify needy persons who would be greatly empowered by the mobility they gained through wheel chair use and could better support their families & themselves.

We collaborated with Sumanahalli Society, an organisation that provides shelter and care for people affected with leprosy and HIV aids. We sponsored food and daily needs for 75 inmates for six months.

While Ujjivan has contributed towards renovation of several PHCs / hospitals under Chote kadam, the bank has been contributing significantly in the health care domain making the health care facilities available and affordable to the challenged sector of the society.

Ujjivan contributed for 6 High Dependency Unit (HDU) Beds at St. John’s hospital when it was critical when several patients were rushed to HDU during the second wave of Covid benefitting hundreds of patients.

Ujjivan partnered with Marwari hospitals in Guwahati to provide Pediatric and Neonatal Setup to help children’s treatment.

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended the world, disrupting the health and economy making things worse for those struggling to make ends meet. However, the primary threat was to people’s health. At the onset of Covid, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank partnered with the non-profit organization – Give India Foundation to supply 5500 PPE kits to hospitals in Mumbai, to support doctors, nurses and hospital support staff members in addressing the issues faced by the end beneficiaries across India.

In 2020-21, we extensively worked towards supporting communities during the pandemic with over 26 projects across India being executed, also benefiting the frontline workers (doctors and paramedical staff, police personnel, corporation and municipality workers and transport workers). We dedicated 52% of the CSR expenditure towards the cause and reached ~7,74,000+ public, 49,000+ police personnel, 10,500+ hospital staff, 12,100+ corporation/municipal/panchayat workers and 200 transport workers. We distributed materials such as masks, sanitisers, dry ration, sprayers and PPE kits, among many.

In 2021-22, as part of Covid relief measures, the Bank had initiated activities such as distribution of beds, bedspreads, oximeters, oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders, ITU beds, Ventilator beds, PPE kits, gloves, mask, thermal scanners, COVID safety gears for frontline workers, etc. which includes funding for 6 ITU beds to St John’s Hospital, Bengaluru and 40 D Type oxygen cylinders to CMC Vellore.

We created a program with the help of our internal team and launched the Ujjivan Sanjeevani Kavach Program to vaccinate the public in our operational areas. The program was successfully executed at 478 operational areas and we were able to inoculate over 80,000 vaccines through PHCs, UPHCs, Government Hospitals & privately set-up camps.

We also started a COVID-19 education programme, primarily designed to create awareness about the pandemic. It provided information on how to remain safe, RT-PCR testing and relevant government insurance schemes and clarified misconceptions. More than 3,57,000+ beneficiaries were trained across the country.

Under disaster management, the Bank supported lives affected by Yass cyclone in Jaynagar and heavy floods at Tamluk and Panskura by providing affected communities with adequate relief material during their time of need.

During the Yass cyclone, the Jaynagar region of West Bengal was severely affected. Teams from Ujjivan SFB’s Jaynagar branch reached out to affected families, assessed needs and provided help in the form of dry rations, plastic buckets, mosquito nets, etc.

In August 2021, there were heavy floods in the Tamluk and Panskura areas in West Bengal. While the state government provided relief in the most severely affected areas, we worked with government agencies to provide help in the form of dry rations, tarpaulin, phenyl liquid and mosquito nets, and thereby helped to check the spread of disease in the prevailing flood ridden unhygienic conditions. We were collectively able to help more than 8,000 beneficiaries.

In 2022, Ujjivan undertook relief activities in the East region by organising health camps in Kamrup, Nagaon Mirza, Baihata locations which were badly affected by floods in the month of September and impacted about 700+ beneficiaries.

As the first step towards cleanliness, we identified the dirtiest streets and areas in the locality. After that, we cleared the debris, garbage dumping areas, and littering spots. To further ensure that these clean spots don’t turn into a sorry state again, we painted the walls. We went hand-in-hand with the local community and the municipal bodies to monitor the clean areas and assure that it doesn’t turn into a garbage dumping spot again.

In addition to that our bank's employees reached out to local schools and involved little children in our cleanliness campaign. Involving children in this social cause raised awareness in the little ones, and they realised the importance of maintaining a clean environment. Many schools supported the drive and even organised awareness marches with placards designed by their students.

The Swachh Neighborhood projects have witnessed overwhelming participation - volunteers, including Ujjivan employees, students, members from the local community and municipal authorities. We also carried out our Project Swachh Neighborhood in Pune Municipal Corporation areas. Later, Pune Municipal Corporation organized ‘Swachh Puraskar 2019-20’ and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank bagged the consolation prize in the Best Swachh Private Organization category.