Adds Deepak Prabhu Matti, head of Cognizant Outreach: “Providing hand sanitisers to hundreds of thousands of students taking SSLC examinations across the state is key to ensuring that the pandemic does not come in the way of an important educational milestone for them.”

Cognizant, which has been contributing to the health and well-being of communities through its Foundations and its employee-led volunteering programme, is supporting several governmental and non-governmental organisations across India on initiatives to help contain the impact of the pandemic on communities.

Supporting the less fortunate has always been a priority for L&T Technology Services, according to the company’s CSR head K.N. Prabhakaran. AXA XL, for its part, has provided over 300 litres of hand sanitisers.

Through the lockdown, Embassy REIT has launched various initiatives focused on extending support to the police and fire personnel serving on the frontlines of the pandemic. It has also procured over 50,000 sanitisers, more than 200,000 disposable protective masks and nutritional snacks for the task forces in Bengaluru, Pune, Noida and Mumbai, where the company has properties. It also set up eight, 24-hour hydration stations in these cities, allowing police personnel working across shifts to get some rest and refreshment between shifts. This programme has so far touched the lives of over 2,00,000 police personnel.

Over the past four years of the REIT’s existence, the Corporate Connect programme has seen Embassy Office Parks partnering with 20 corporates for 34 community projects, in the belief that collaboration leads to greater impact.