CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility

Helping Hands – Steering Goodwill, Together!

SPAN has always been deeply committed to being a good and responsible corporate with adherence to best business practices. Going beyond business to enrich the quality of life of the community in which we operate, SPANites have initiated several educational and local welfare programs which align our business values and behavior with the expectations and needs of stakeholders.

SPAN is working closely with EDUCAIT a Non Profit Charitable Trust to channelize our CSR initiatives. EDUCAIT manages a wide array of CSR programs that have been identified to help underprivileged children gain access to quality education & infrastructure in local primary schools and Government run schools under the Private Public partnership program.

Some of the Key CSR initiatives by SPAN in collaboration with EDUCAIT:

Relief operations in the flood affected areas of Karnataka

SPAN along with EDUCAIT visited the Flood hit areas in Karnataka within 3 days and helped in rehabilitation activities of the affected families. The team helped in rehabilitating three families, distributing books and uniforms to two schools and donations to another trust for rebuilding a school. SPAN CSR Team also arranged for Food grains in Kurnool district through trusted channels and conducted Eye Camp and Spectacles Distribution for senior citizens jointly with Narayana Nethralaya, a leading hospital chain in India.

EDUCAIT signs up adoption of school in Bidadi

The Trust has adopted a Government Primary school for its upkeep. The school hosts 300+ children in Grades 1-7. The school lacks some basic amenities like clean toilets and drinking water facilities. To address the needs for basic infrastructure the trust has helped and funded the school with the following activities:

• Install water lines and provide plumbing activity. Fix electrical needs
• Fund the computer lab
• Teaching Aids & Sporting Equipment, Desks, Table, Chairs and Fans to Bidadi
• General Health camps were conducted for 320 children
• Eye camp for 150 children along with one of the leading Eye Hospital - Narayana Nethralaya

Apart from this the trust also helps school authorities by funding needy students after assessing parents ability to fund, student profile check and School’s recommendations. Apart from the above the trust has plans to conduct Annual Sports days, Cultural days and repeat health and eye camps each year.

Electrical Needs of a neighborhood primary school - "Taare Zameen Par" Campaign

SPAN identified a Government Primary school in the neighborhood that genuinely required infrastructure support. A couple of SPANites visited the school, made observations and met the staff of the school. The visit clearly underlined the need for electrical wiring in the classrooms. In order to find out the feasibility and cost of providing this SPAN electricians also visited the school. To raise the funds SPAN organized an interesting and a very successful "Taare Zameen Par” painting competition where children of SPAN Employees participated. Later an exhibition was organized and the paintings were auctioned to parents to raise the funds. 

Clothes Donation Campaign

Our old clothes now have new shelf to be shared. SPAN CSR group at SPAN created an opportunity for all to extend our happiness to the less fortunate brothers and sisters by donating used/unused clothes which were in good condition. SPAN tied up with R K Foundation, Bangalore for helping us to deliver it to the right hands. This foundation has their own Clothes bank and they help the needy with these through the year (all age groups and genders). The board of trustees of R.K. Foundation greatly appreciated SPANites contribution for the 11 boxes of clothes that were contributed for the project. We plan to take this as an ongoing quarterly event.

“Spread Smile” Campaign

With the year ending festive season in 2011, SPAN CSR group came up with a noble idea to spread SMILES & bring Joy to kids of Bidadi School. SPAN CSR Team ran a campaign to collect items which surely brings smile on little faces. The response was phenomenal and we were able to collect good number of items like Coloring book, activity books, writing & painting kits for students of the school.

Fund Raising Activities:

Apart from the regular CSR initiatives a couple of small closed-circle fund raising activities were carried by SPANites, to help a few needy staff, in the last one year. The details of the instances are provided below.

• Help cover the medical expenses - We had one House Keeping lady and her family member, who were hospitalized. SPAN India staff raised the funds in 2 days and delivered it to the people who needed help. The fund collected was a little over 11 thousand Rupees.
• Help a deserving student - A son of a House Keeping lady, who had done really well in academics in Class 10, was on the verge of joining a college. These days, education in a decent college is expensive. A request to raise funds, amounting to 30 thousand Rupees for college fees, was addressed. Our friends in SPAN contribute judiciously. The collected amount stood at 80 thousand Rupees, which covered the expenses for fist year PUC, as well as for second year, and beyond (in terms of coaching expenses for the 2nd PUC and towards CET exams)!
• Help a medically challenged child - There was a request from one of the SPANites, to help a girl living in a tier-two city of Karnataka, who had a hole in her heart. The girl’s parents, who were economically backward, had a herculean task of raising funds amounting over two lakhs! The parents were exploring all possible options and were able to get help from the Government of Karnataka, to have the operation performed free of cost. But, the cost of the medicines was about 50 thousand Rupees, and our dear SPANites contributed towards raising the amount.