Projects - Education

HSBC partners with non–governmental organizations across country that works with children from underprivileged communities. Our support helps children go to school and learn in a joyful environment. Some of the educational projects supported by HSBC India are:

• SOS Children's Villages: HSBC supports the work of SOS Children's Villages in New Delhi, Kolkata, Bhuj, Anagpur and Latur. SOS India's mission is to provide abandoned and orphaned children with a family, a home, education and a foundation for an independent life.
• Childlink Foundation (Magic Bus): HSBC supports a group of street children between the age of 8–10 years at Magic Bus by facilitating their non–formal education through outdoor sports, day trips and weekend trips.
• HSBC Gijubhai Bal Academy with Ganatar, Patadi, Surendranagar district, Gujarat: HSBC works with Ganatar to educate children of salt pan workers by establishing schools in desert communities. On campus, Ganatar conducts teacher training programmes and vocational courses for children from the Raan of Kutch.
• Happy Home and School for the Blind, Mumbai: Happy Hope imparts education for blind and visually impaired children. HSBC provides support to their annual pottery workshop and exhibition.
• Future Hope: is a home and school for street children in Kolkata, supported by HSBC through annual donations.
• Prayas: Prayas works for the care, protection and rehabilitation of neglected street and working children. HSBC supports the Naya Prayas project in Delhi slums and helps provide out–of–school children with education.
• Doorstep School: Doorstep school works in slum communities around Mumbai's port areas to establish Early Childhood Education (ECE) centers. It is an effort to commence a systematic and early educational intervention in the lives of the children from the community.
• SUPPORT: SUPPORT helps children on street of Mumbai who are prey to drug abuse, crime and disease by mainstreaming them and offering complete rehabilitation. It provides an opportunity for better life for these children through education, medical care, return to families/ parents, vocational training and livelihood assistance.
• Sense International (India): Sense International (India) is a leading organization in South Asia developing programmes for deaf blind people. They enable and empower local partners to provide direct services to deaf blind people. As a result of their work there are now 33 deaf blind programmes in 17 different states of India.
• Nanhi Kali: A project jointly managed by K. C. Mahindra Education Trust and Naandi Foundation. Nanhi Kali is a nationwide project to support the education of disadvantaged girls. Ensuring that girls are in school and that they get 10 years of uninterrupted formal quality education is the aim of the project.
• The Foundation for Mother and Child Health, India: works to improve the lives of mothers and children in local communities by providing long term programmes focused on health, nutrition, education, and sustainable skills training programmes.
• Azim Premji Foundation: HSBC supports Computer Aided Learning Programme (CALP) to create an environment where learning is fun and the opportunities to learn are equal. This project focuses on rural Government elementary schools covering classes 1 to 8 to attract children to school, retain them in school and to enhance the quality of learning in school.
• Welfare Society for the Blind: conducts vocational training programmes for adult persons with visual disability to equip them with the skills and competence to gain a degree of economic self–sufficiency.
• Goonj: A unique resource mobilization initiative channelising clothes and other basic amenities to millions in the far flung areas by turning one's wastage into resource for another. Initiated in 1998 with just 67 clothes, they now send out over 10,000 kgs of material every month in 18 states.
• Butterflies, Delhi: has been working with street and working children in Delhi since 1989. The project has started a mobile van service with computer training and banking/savings facilities for street children at 12 key street children contact points in Delhi.
• Deepalaya, Delhi: aims to bring about sustainable development in poor communities through educational interventions at three levels i.e., the child, the family & the community. The project being supported is educating 750 children from Patpar Ganj slum in East Delhi and mainstream them into the formal education system
• Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation, Delhi: was founded by Dr Kiran Bedi and 17 other like–minded officials of Delhi Police. The project being supported is to run seven libraries for 4000 underprivileged children in the age group of 4 to 16 years.
• Yusuf Meherally Centre, Delhi: established in 1961 and working for the welfare of needy and landless rural people for the last 38 years. A project to provide400 begging/working children in Delhi education, life skills and counselling is being supported.
• Children Toy Foundation, Mumbai: The organisation has been instrumental in setting up 194 Toy Libraries all over India, 86 in Mumbai alone. The project has set up a 'Khelvigyan Center' in Baroda with toys that engage children who otherwise have little access to healthy, exciting and educational forms of recreation.
• Salaam Baalak Trust, Mumbai: established in1988 with a portion of the proceeds from the film "Salaam Bombay!" by Mira Nair. It aims to give street children choices and a chance to experience the joys of childhood; HSBC is supporting a night shelter at Umerkhadi that acts as a safe haven for 30 homeless girls.
• Parivartan Social Welfare Society, Kolkata: currently runs 80 community based education centres in three municipalities serving about 2000 children every year. The being supported aims to provide quality education to 400 out–of–school children
• Loreto Day School. Sealdah: 'Off to school programme' a unique project for homeless children, that brings the privileged and the less fortunate together in one classroom. It is a school in the day and a shelter for girls by night.
• Jeevodaya Society, Itarsi: The construction of the shelter for homeless girls from Itarsi railway station, which serves as a safe and protected environment for these girls.
• Light of Life Trust, Karjat (Maharashtra) – HSBC supports ANANDO, a project for the education and integration of out–of–school children in Karjat, Madgaon and Alibag. ANANDO adopts the E3 Approach – Educate; Empower Equip / Employ.
• Shoshit Seva Sangh, Patna: A new residential school known as Shoshit Samadhan Kendra is being supported to provide education and vocational training to children of the 'Mushar' (rat catcher) community – former untouchables living in the outskirts of Bihar villages.
• CSR Course at HR College of Commerce and Economics: HSBC has partnered with the HR College of Commerce and Economics to deliver CSR learning modules through a series of interactive sessions with the objective of sensitising students in their formative years on the benefits of CSR. This initiative will enable students in their professional and personal lives to comprehend the importance of CSR and act in an ethical and sustainable manner