State Bank of India: Encouraging financial freedom

The partnership with State Bank of India in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh enables urban poor and their households to increase their incomes and ensure economic security by organizing women into groups. These groups do small savings, develop bank linkages and can even take loans from the bank to finance their micro-enterprise.

ICICI Prudential: Rebuilding lives

In 2009, when the floods affected Andhra Pradesh, ICICI Prudential and its employees made generous contribution for the affected. The grant made it possible for groups of indigenous people to rebuild their houses and livelihood.

Dalmia Cement: Taking responsibility

Improving the quality of life for the residents of six villages in Dalmiapuram, Andhra Pradesh is a responsibility that Dalmia Cememt Bharat Limited takes seriously. CARE is working to organize villagers into groups so that they can access essential services including financial services for improved social and economic opportunities.

What is more we are helping them to diversify their livelihood and make them resilient to disasters.

Tea Vana: Ethical tea

Ever think about where your daily cup of tea comes from?  It is the labour of hands of people who will not have the luxury of enjoying it. With Teavana’s partnership, CARE will reach to 1000 tribal small landholders involved in tea cultivation in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. We will help them to develop bank linkages, diversify crops and livelihood with a focus on good health & nutrition.  What’s more we will also help women get organized into self help groups so that they can start earning independent income and become recognized in their own right.

This is quite a story behind our cup of tea!

UBS: Giving the right start to life

Motorola Corporation: Making Science and Math as easy as 123

Did Math and Science ever leave you stumped in school? Help is at hand from Motorola Corporation for over 2000 girls in 25 schools to improve their understanding and performance in the subject of Math and Science.

Intel: Making learning fun with technology

Many students drop out of school because they find classroom learning boring. But not anymore with computer aided learning brought to the classrooms of rural Uttar Pradesh. Intel partnered with CARE for a pilot. Intel has sponsored 100 laptops with integrated software for computer aided learning and teaching. It has put fun back into learning by making it collaborative and interactive.

Barclays: Making rupee reach the last mile

Remember the time you felt frustrated when your ATM did not have cash and you had to drive to another ATM some distance away. Lucky you! Many in the rural areas do not have this privilege. If they need to access any bank service they have to go a long way. Barclays Bank and CARE are working together to find an innovative solution to make financial services available at village’s doorstep. We are training women’s groups to act as trained intermediaries in taking money as well as financial services to the people in the villages.

This is just another effort of ours to make sure that the rupee and the financial services do reach the last mile.