HCL Foundation

Touching Lives. Spreading Smiles.

Power of One Powered By HCLites

HCL Foundation is a Corporate Social

Responsibility Trust, supported by Employees
contribution of Re 1 / day and matched by HCL.
All programs are implemented with support from
employee voluntary group called the
Community Champions.
Our community programs are
founded on the belief that it is
all about the Power of 1
the power of 1 Rupee, the
power of 1 day of volunteer
work, the power of unified
employee minds and hearts to
transform the society.

At HCL Technologies, we take pride in our

'Employees First' culture. When HCLites
expressed the desire to reach out to the
less privileged and give back to society,
we ensured that a professional entity was
created to achieve the same.

ECO = Environment + Community: We

believe, that engaging with
communities will help us meet with
environment goals, and through
communities we can rebalance
resources for the future.

Power of 1 - Our Community Focus and Impact

Community Development Programs

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

HCL Gurukul

HCL Yuvakendra

Nurture the Future

Enables children and

youth in the age group
of 11 17 years,
residing in semi urban
areas to advance their
education and skills.

Empowers Youth
through Training and
Skills Development for
Employment , personality
development, career
grooming and digital
literacy

Empower women,
Differently-abled and
youth through
sustainable livelihood
including, rehabilitation
and bridge schools.

Community Giving
Friend in Need

Just Like Us

Social Recycling

Help our supply

chain
community
through welfare
schemes.

Reach out to sections

of the society that
needs human touch.
(Senior citizens,
orphaned children and
terminally ill persons)

Everyday collection of
used clothes,
stationery, books toys,
etc. to be distributed to
those in need, including
victims of natural
disasters

Advocacy Causes
Protection of Child
Rights

Women Safety and

Wellbeing

1,91,000+ persons covered

60,000+ direct beneficiaries
0%

school
dropouts; 5.4%
better results in
School exams

640 - Sustainable
livelihood
opportunities
created

Partnership with UNICEF to provide life

skills training by HCLites. 3,200 students
covered till now

595
youth rehabilitated
and placed in
schools; 1,200
covered in
workshops

77,000 + children
and women covered
under Chupi Todo
Break the silence

19,950+ volunteers,
1,60,,000+ volunteer hours
Environment

38,000 + HCLites contribute Re 1/day

How we implement Power of One (Po1)

Po1 activities are taken forward by
Community Champions

Role of Community Champions:

Community
Champions
_Po1 Leaders

Community Champions spend a day, a weekend in various

programs adopted. They bring along a new colleague every
weekend, thus improving the number of volunteers for any
cause
Volunteers involve themselves in mentoring programs, life
skill development training, organising creative programs for
the well-being of youth and in supporting the supply chain
community
Advocate strongly for issues close to their heart

Impact:

Team Work

Volunteers are a great inspiration for the youth in the

community by creating a change in their lives, in terms of
education and also for a better career.

Management

Recreational activities that are conducted as a part of Just

Like Us, help bring more smiles in the communities.

Creating new leaders and facilitating team work through Po1

Community programs are an effective way of team building,

and grooming of leadership skills among employees

HCL Gurukul (Youth Centers)

INVESTING IN YOUTH
Objectives: To promote awareness amongst less privileged children and youth about the opportunities for growth available to them.
All the below programs are designed to bridge the gap in opportunities between rural, semi-urban and urban areas

After-school Coaching

Psycho-Social Support
Counselling services are offered
for youth with stress, family
issues, youth addicted to drugs
and also behavioural problems

After-school tuitions are

conducted to excel well in
their studies

Sports, Arts & Culture

Professional training and
opportunities to show the
talent in HCL events.

Mentoring

Skill Development

IT labs

Motivational classes are

conducted for
improvement in
academics and coping
with exam stress

Courses like basic computer

applications, soft skills, home
care, nursing, tailoring & retail
are offered through which the
youths are employed

Access to computer
education and training .

28,900+
Youth in the age group 1320 years benefitted from
after-school programs

595

1,350

100%

Youths have been

rehabilitated from
drug, tobacco and
alcohol addiction

students
access Math Labs

pass ratio in all

HCLT youth centers

Unique Youth Development Programs

After-School Coaching
What
Providing tuition services for the
less privileged children in slums
How
During evenings, 7 days a week,
from 5.00-7.00 pm and night
studies from 8.00-12.00 am

Who
Through a community member
with educational knowledge. Paid
and
monitored
by
HCL
Foundation.

Digital Literacy Programme

Computer education support and
internet connectivity through IT
labs

Rehabilitating boys and girls in

Juvenile Homes

Volunteers
conduct
regular
sessions in MS Office and other
important digital skills like using the
internet for information sourcing
and expansion of knowledge.

Vigil Camps Dawn-to-dusk

vigil camps to cover youths in
slums affected by alcohol/
drugs abuse

Around 18,970 students are

being covered under the digital
literacy program so far.

595 youths rehabilitated from

drug/alcohol addiction
Rehabilitation Workshops

Bridge School

Impact
Over 28, 900 beneficiaries
through
evening
tuitions,
Increased scores in in public
exams and broke UNICEF record
by maintaining 100% attendance
in schools .

Rehabilitation

What School drop-outs from

slums identified, provided afterschool coaching and placed in
these schools,
Impact- 300 students benefitted

1,200 youths covered under

various workshops
Street theatre performance by
youths helped to create
awareness to 30,000+
members of the public on
Dengue, sanitation, Alcoholism
etc.

Unique Youth Development Programs

Life Skills Training

Life Skills Training (Focus on adolescences issues, required
life skill, relationships, nutrition and awareness on
HIV/AIDS)
100 HCL volunteers were trained by UNICEF on life skill
development through TOT model
Over 3,200 youths trained so far

Bright Scholarships
An annual scholarship for providing educational support to
children of our extended support staff who have scored
more than 60% from Class 1 to 12.
In FY 2013-2014, this programme has supported more than
300 families by helping them provide quality education for
their children.
So far 550 familiies supported

Rural Education & Capacity Building

What - Providing educational support for the
children in the rural Karnataka
How - Provide 400 computers to 30 schools with
CDs containing academic syllabus, Educating the
teachers on the basics of computers, Mentoring
Program, Life Skill Training, Vocational Training,
Spoken English and Library support
Who - By Tumkur Science Center, Swami
Vivekananda Youth Movement, Tumkur Education
Department and HCL Volunteers
Impact 5,000 children equipped with IT
education and largely motivated to perform well in
studies

Training in Arts, Sports

To encourage special talents.
Around 1500 children have performed in various public
events including the HCLs Annual Spring Fest over
2013-14.
The best performers are awarded scholarships to pursue
professional coaching.

HCL Yuvakendra

Skill training & job creation

Short term training in specific skills including
computer skills, aptitude, communication,
customer relations, etc.

Mentoring and training the students in soft

skills and personality development.

Digital literacy programme

To help close the IT skills gap in communities, by

enabling disadvantaged persons the ability to
access technology and training, enabling
opportunities to become economically active.

Computer education support and internet

connectivity through IT labs have helped instil an
interest for computers in the minds of the children
and youth.

Volunteers conduct regular sessions in MS Office

and other important digital skills like using the
internet for information sourcing and expansion of
knowledge.

Around 18,970 students are being covered

under the digital literacy program so far.

In FY 2013-2014, around 800 youths have

been trained in various skills and 640 youths
have been placed on jobs
Eligible candidates are absorbed into HCL
workforce through special recruitment drives
& career fairs in the communities.

Sustainable Livelihood Programs

Prison project

Nurture the future women empowerment programme

Sanitary Napkin Manufacturing Unit set up

in Puzhal Central Prison

Providing livelihood sustainability for women and girls through career

development and creating job opportunities, entrepreneurial training

50,000 sanitary napkins produced by

prisoners and sold to the Govt of TN
HCL Foundation has funded the project

and formation of self-help groups,

Workshops and training programmes in career skills and essential life
skills, including personality development, goal setting, effective
communication, SWOT Analysis, motivation, etc,
Around 2,200 women within the age group of 15-30 years trained

from its inception in June (setting up the

manufacturing

unit

and

procuring

VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND KIOSKS IN HCL

machinery) while training and support is

being provided by SHG partner.

Over 300 inmates have benefited from

the project so far,

Vocational training to marginalised women from Madanpur

Khadar slum and Hoshiarpur Village in Noida
Training in tailoring and embroidery skills, dye-making, lamps,
candles, etc. and also selling, marketing and negotiation skills, to
enable them to become self-reliant and self-sustainable in life.
Kiosks in HCL cafeterias to sell products

300 women benefited

Empowering girl children and women

Nurture the Future

18 to 40 yrs
Advocacy
Campaign
Age: 6 to 16 yrs.
Over 77,000 children
covered.

HCL Gurukul
11 to 18 yrs.
HCLT Youth Center
focuses on education,
sports, arts and culture
training. Soft skill
training and personality
development classes
are conducted
periodically

Nurture the
Future
training to
2,290 women
and 685 young
women helped
with
sustainable
livelihood
opportunities
136 facilitated
with jobs
through HCL
vendors

Recreational
activities and
health camps
Old Age Homes
Every three
months our HCL
volunteers visit
old age homes
and give food
and nutrition
and organize
recreational
activities.

Safe Childhood ----> Facilitating Right to Education ----> Enabling a dignified life

Community giving

Kind People Happy City Program (KPHC)

What
Development of persons with mental disabilities
rehabilitation, nurturing talent and skills through training

through

How
Bi-weekly visit by HCL volunteers who organize these programs
and training

Who
Banyan Home for Destitute Women and HCL volunteers

Impact
500 beneficiaries from Banyan Shelter Homes
220 women rehabilitated

Sustainable Development of Supply Chain

Educating support staffs and third party vendors on their

rights, safety and welfare

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Just Like Us (As Care Givers)

Focus: Sections of society

which require human care for
betterment of life

Through Social
Recycling project,
used clothes, toys,
books & stationary
items, donated to
60,000 beneficiaries

3150 orphaned kids, 750

needy persons covered
under food security
programs

500 persons (with mental

illness & homeless)
covered through various
programs including
volunteering at shelter
homes

Micro Nutrient Support

for children/ persons with
terminal illness (HIV/AIDS,
Cancer, TB) - 517
beneficiaries covered

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17,105+ litres of
blood donated by
HCLites; 8500
beneficiaries reached
through health camps

900+ differently
abled persons
benefitted through
counselling

Friend in Need (For HCLs Extended Families)

Focus: Supply chain

community including house
keeping, cafeteria, and
security staff, and cab
drivers

Fun day for the staff

& families during the
month of May every
year

2,500 trained on
prevention of sexual
harassment

Grievance /
Harassment reporting
channels

Teach at Office
(Soft skills & motivational
sessions) 1,925 staff
covered with around 7 of
them pursuing higher
education now

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Training for Cab

Drivers - Over
2,000+ covered

Bright scholarship (Grants

for the children's education;
500 children/year)
320 in 2013
Target 2014 - 400

Advocacy

Rights, Safety and Welfare of Children

An Intensive campaign which helps create awareness on child
sexual harassment and abuse . Over 77,000 children covered.

Safety and Wellbeing of Girls

2,110 women have been trained through self-defense

workshops
1,990 women were covered through various health camps
and awareness programmes in the slums across India

Environment

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6,435 saplings have been planted by HCLites

and students of our HCL Gurukuls
200 kgs of plastic wastes have been collected
during various waste collection drives
68 awareness camps were held to sensitize
people on various environmental issues

Awards and Recognitions

NHRDN Award for Case Study on Enhancing Education Quality and Development of Youth in Urban Slums
and Rural Areas through HCL Gurukul July 2014

Global Sustainability Leadership Award 2014 for Best Community Action February 2014

CRY Child Rights Awards 2013 Best Employee Engagement Award hails HCLs Power of One as the
most impactful employee engagement program to address Child Rights issue December 2013

Amity CSR Awards 2013 Exemplary Contribution to the field of CSR - December 2013

Asian Sustainability Award for the year 2011-2012

Asia-Pacific Enterprise Leadership Award for CSR

Social Innovator Award presented by Youth Exnora International for the year 2012-2013,

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Power of One continues to

be a powerful tool in
enabling HCLites to act on

the issues they care about

and to become valuable
agents of change in making
the world a better place to
live in

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