AppLabs CSR Activities

AppLabs Government Primary School

Education is a major area of focus in CSR activities for AppLabs. Further to it the company has adopted a government school in B.R. Ambedkar Nagar, a small locality based in the up-scale film nagar area of Hyderabad, India. With over 150 students, the school was originally run in a small temporary shack. Looking at the lack of infrastructure at the school, the AppLabs Charitable Trust (ACT) immediately initiated a dialogue with Sarva Shiksha Abhyan (SSA), Department of the Government of India, to work on a public-private partnership to fund the construction of the school building. The construction of the school is completed in about 450 square yards, comprising of the ground and the first floor with five classrooms and two staff rooms. As per the signed MOU with the SSA authorities, the school is named as 'AppLabs Government Primary School'.

AppLabs on CII National CSR Panel

AppLabs has recently been nominated to the CII national CSR panel. The panel is working on various programs under the categories of - environment, education, health and sanitation, security and safety, amongst others. AppLabs is actively involved in recommending the 8-point national CSR plan, which needs to be implemented by the CII CSR panel in India.

To celebrate the world environment day on 5th of June, the member companies recently have undertaken 'Lake Cleanup' program in the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. Aside the cleaning up, planting of samplings has also been initiated. In total 12 organizations including AppLabs planted 1870 saplings.

AppLabs is also actively participating in CII’s new initiative - The Millenium Development Goals. As part of this program, CII along with its CSR panel companies is organizing workshops to sensitize industry on poverty, health, education and environment. The workshops would analyze the current efforts in the development arena and also identify the major gaps on corporate partnerships impeding social developmental and inclusive growth. The outcome of this workshop is expected to vision; develop and aim to sustain public private partnerships towards perceived changes.

AppLabs featured in the World Bank Institute case study

A compilation of case studies entitled ‘Inclusive Response to HIV and AIDS challenge: Experience from the Indian IT sector’ on the initiatives and experiences of the eight leading IT companies in addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS was released by the World Bank Institute (WBI), the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and India Business Trust (IBT) for HIV/AIDS recently. We are happy to announce that AppLabs is one amongst them. Click here to read more about it.

Voluntary Donation Drive

ACT has oraganised a voluntary donation drive at their US and India offices to collect children’s clothes, footwear, toys, stationary, story books, notebooks, bed sheets and towels. There was an overwhelming response to this initiative, as employees came forth in large numbers and contributed generously; the proceeds of which were donated to Spoorthi Foundation, a grass-root organization working for underprivileged children - homeless, orphaned, abandoned and Rakshana Deepam, a home for HIV patients and Sharada Vidya Niketan.

AppLabs conducts its 6th Blood donation Camp in partnership with the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust

ACT in collaboration with the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT), established by the renowned telugu actor Chiranjeevi, conducted its 6th blood donation camp recently at their Global Engineering Centre located in Hyderabad.

Earlier, ACT has successfully conducted five blood donation camps till date in association with CCT, which have seen excellent participation from all AppLabs’ employees working out of the two main facilities of AppLabs in Hyderabad. ACT members have conducted email and poster campaigns to spread the message of the cause. Over 100 associates participated in the drive in its 6th edition.

All the donors were given a ‘Donor Card’ by CCT with which the donor can obtain one unit of blood without replacement whenever needed over a period of one year. Donor card is absolutely free and can be used by the donor or his/her relatives.

Additionally, all the donors were also given a comprehensive list of donors along with their blood groups, which will be useful in locating the donors, whenever needed. ACT is happy to be a part of this noble initiative and looks forward to be a part of similar causes.

Education:

Education has been a major area of activity in CSR for AppLabs. In primary education, the company works with four schools in Hyderabad, India – one government primary school, the GPS Ambedkar School and 3 privately run schools under ‘Sharada Vidya Niketan’, which are situated in the high tech city area and in the outskirts of Hyderabad.

ACT has implemented many welfare programs at the GPS Ambedkar School which include:

  • Donating uniforms, footwear, text books and other stationary items to the school children
  • Distributing fruits, sweets, fire crackers and organizing games for the children on festive holidays such as ‘Diwali’ (festival of lights) and on special occasions like the Indian Independence day

The GPS Ambedkar School has a student population of 130 boys and girls, studying from Class 1 to Class 5.

Sharada Vidya Niketan runs 3 schools in the outskirts of Hyderabad for over 200 students, most of them orphans and aged between 3 and 11. ACT works closely with Sharada Vidya Niketan and has:

  • Donated text books, stationary items, clothes and essential foodstuffs like rice, cooking oil, etc.

  • ACT members have also volunteered to teach the students Math, Science and English

ACT has also collaborated with the MV Foundation, an NGO based in Hyderabad and run by Magsaysay award winner Shantha Sinha, to teach spoken English at Government schools in Hyderabad

The ACT team regularly visits the Radha Krishna Orphanage, which houses more than 180 children aged between 4 and 12. In addition to interacting with the children, the volunteers regularly screen movies for their entertainment, which include ‘The Lion King’, 'Baby’s Day Out', 'Spiderman', amongst others.

On the occasion of Children's Day celebration, November 14th, the ACT Team visited GPS Ambedkar School. As a part of the celebrations, the ACT team conducted painting and sports competition, distributed chocolates, biscuits, books and stationary to all the school children.

Sashi and Ashwini Reddi, Arun, Sai, Reema and Krishna Rao and ACT volunteers graced the event and enthusiastically participated in the activities, Greg Veksler, who was visiting from the Philadelphia office distributed prizes to the children. A total of 110 students participated in the event and made it a huge success.

GPS School construction is progressing well and the construction of the first floor is now underway to being completed soon.

Healthcare:

Under Health initiatives, AppLabs works closely with Nirmal Hriday, an NGO run by the Mother Teresa Charitable Trust which supports 17 old age homes in Andhra Pradesh and 14 in Orissa, and provides shelter to destitute patients suffering from tuberculosis and diabetes, as well as HIV positive patients. AppLabs makes quarterly donations of life saving medicines to the organization.

Other initiatives include organizing quarterly Blood Donation camps organized in association with the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust in Hyderabad. Over 300 employees support the cause at every camp.

ACT conducted its fifth blood donation Camp on April 18th, 2008 that witnessed participation from employees of all the three facilities in Hyderabad, as the administration team made the necessary transportation arrangements. To motivate employees, ACT had conducted email and poster campaigns.

Many employees had donated for the third time in a row which showed their concern to the needy. All the donors have been given a ‘Donor Card’ from CCT with which the donor can obtain one unit of blood without replacement whenever needed over a period of one year.

Donation of blood can be termed heroic as it would serve the purpose of protecting an ailing person, a fellow being, or an accident victim or those who want to survive, as well as blood banks to control the quality and the declining stocks.

AppLabs is very proud to be associated with this noble cause.

The healthcare initiatives of ACT include:

  • Periodic donations of medicines to ‘Little Sisters of the Poor-Home for the Aged’

  • Quarterly donation of old clothes to the ‘Aleti Home’ for the mentally challenged, which houses over 40 inmates, as well as to the patients in the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad

  • Financial contribution to support the brain tumor operation of an 11 year old boy, Kiran Kumar at the Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad

  • Donating super speciality beds to Andhra Mahila Sabha an organization, which provides medical assistance to the poor and free education to mentally challenged boys and girls.

AppLabs also participated as one of the main sponsors in the ‘Wockathon 2007’, a marathon walk organized by Wockhardt Group, a premier healthcare group in India, to celebrate ‘World’s Heart Day’ and to spread the message of ‘healthy hearts’.

The ACT team also regularly visits Rakshana Deepam, a home for HIV patients situated outside the main city of Hyderabad, wherein they interact and spend some quality time with the inmates. Recently, the volunteers donated clothes (men, women and children), shoes and toys for the patients.

Social Causes:

ACT regularly organizes voluntary donation camps called ‘SAMARPAN’ (which in Hindi means ‘committing to a cause’), which provides the perfect platform for employees to demonstrate their compassionate nature for making generous donations of clothes, footwear, books, foodstuffs, household and personal care items for the poor and the needy. The proceeds are further distributed in all the schools and homes adopted by ACT, as well as in the slum areas in and around Hyderabad. Due to the overwhelming response and support for this initiative, the AppLabs voluntary donation camps have become yet another success story in their CSR initiatives.

ACT has also collaborated with Family Services, a voluntary organization based out of Bangalore that seeks to help the underprivileged and runs multiple projects and schools for the physically and mentally challenged children.

The organization has also been able to focus on some of the concerns of the corporate sector management. These concerns range from the need for de-stressing materials and activities, input that would help people bond, the need for a family like atmosphere, inter personal relationships etc. Internationally, Family services has been able to successfully create products (VCD’s, Audio CD’s for adults and children, story books, desktop calendar and print materials that could help fulfil some of these needs.

AppLabs and its employees have extended support to the organization’s multiple causes by regularly buying their products. The money raised from this activity will be used to support various projects this NGO is currently undertaking at various parts of the country, there by helping millions of people who are beneficiaries of their noble initiatives.

Recently, ACT collaborated with Spoorthi, simple grass-root organization working for underprivileged children - homeless, orphaned, abandoned and other ‘at-risk’ groups. The mission of this collaboration is to change lives of children belonging to such underprivileged groups by providing them with long-term care and skills and transform them into responsible citizens.

AppLabs recently participated in a safety regulations program in collaboration with the Traffic Police Department of Hyderabad. AppLabs’ employees made special efforts in educating the passing commuters on key road safety traffic rules by distributing pamphlets and showcasing colorful banners with eye-catching slogans and illustrations at four major junctions in the city. They also helped in regulating and facilitating smooth traffic movement at the busy traffic junctions.

AppLabs Celebrates 61st Indian Independence Day with the students of GPS Ambedkar school – Film Nagar, Hyderabad

Commemorating India's Independence day on August 15, 2008, AppLabs Charitable Trust (ACT) visited the Government Primary School, Film Nagar to spend quality time with the school children. As part of the program ACT conducted singing competition for the school children. Prizes were given to the winners in the by the ACT members. ACT team also distributed chocolates and biscuits to all the school children. The program was concluded with the group singing of the Indian national anthem.

By spending time with the children, ACT hopes to motivate them to understand the value of team play, competition and spirit to ‘win’ and most importantly the value of Independence Day.

Operation Christmas Stocking – The AppLabs US office initiatives included ‘Operation Christmas Stocking’, wherein the employees extended support to the US troops in the Middle East, by collecting useful items to send to them for Christmas. ‘Operation Christmas Stocking’ has been shipping donated items to troops in the Middle East for the last few years.

Food Bank – The AppLabs Lindon office employees also regularly donate gifts for families that are unable to afford them, as well collect canned food from the employees to help fill up the local food bank.

‘Sub for Santa’ – The Lindon office employees also regularly play ‘Santa’ for poor families with children that live in their local areas, who are unable to provide their children with gifts due to hardship.

Selm Muir forest, Scotland

Royal Bank of Scotland partners AppLabs on a community project – Employees from Royal Bank of Scotland and AppLabs have been working together in a bid to help the local community. Recently, a team of over 20 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and AppLabs employees worked together with the Forestry Commission of Scotland, and volunteered their time to build footpaths in Selm Muir forest, Scotland, to help improve accessibility to the woodland site.

This initiative has helped to make Selm Muir Forest more enjoyable and more accessible for local children from Cedarbank and Pinewoods Special Needs Schools, Livingston.

At present there are no formal footpaths in Selm Muir wood, only sections of Forest Road and some informal tracks through the wood. Any paths that do exist are rough, uneven and there are open ditches meaning it’s currently unsuitable for children with physical disabilities to be able to enjoy.

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