EDUCATION
Instashala project - Spherule Foundation (our CSR Partner)
- Nuh, Haryana – One of the most backward districts in India, a large population in Nuh was rendered illiterate due to poor quality of educational facilities and infrastructure. IBPS along with Spherule Foundation enhanced the quality of education and learning performance of school aged children through various initiatives like digital learning, providing stationery kits, arranging events like Science Day, Environment Day, promoting sports activities, counselling sessions to improve mental health, providing life skills training sessions, community awareness programs on cleanliness, waste management as well as other environmental and social issues.
- Delhi – Due to the digital divide in learning created during the pandemic, 80% students in government schools were unable to receive any sort of education that further widened the socio-economic gap in the society. In Patparganj district of Delhi, Spherule Foundation helped by IBPS runs 8 batches of 256 students from Class 3rd to 8th. In Kalkaji, 2 batches are functional with 105 students from Class 5th- 8th through digital learning and remedial classes of Science, Engineering and Maths. During the third wave of the pandemic, schools once again shifted to online mode and post February commenced with offline learning that included an elaborate National Science Day celebration with full fervour by making posters and science experimental models. This event was attended by 160 students and covered by 4 local newspapers.
National Science Day celebrations in Spherule Foundation’s, #InstaShala project in collaboration with IBPS
KNOWLEDGE SHARING & LOCAL CAPABILITY BUILDING SESSION
A Day of Interaction with Professors, Scientists & Students of various Colleges & Universities at Department of Botany, Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts & Science on the occasion of “Western Regional Seminar on Frontiers and Innovations in Plant Sciences”
COMMUNITY
IBPS marks the 3rd year in Business with Community Support Initiative
The world is going through an unprecedented Medical crisis due to the outbreak of COVID-19. It touched all of us, either directly or indirectly. On top of the pandemic, a dreaded cyclone tore through eastern India and Bangladesh on knocking down trees, smashing countless shacks and killing at least several people. The worst damage was reported in the Indian state of West Bengal, home to the metropolis Kolkata and many small, coastal villages. Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha (PBVM), one of the largest people science organizations in India, started a community kitchen to feed average of 6500 homeless people every day. As a part of “third year completion of business”, IBPS decided to join the program and help them running the kitchen for a day by supporting one day meal for the 6500 people. We appeal to all our friends to support the cyclone affected people in Bengal.
SUPPORTING KERALA IN FACING FLOOD AFTERMATH
Kerala has faced an unprecedented flood havoc. The calamity has caused immeasurable misery and devastation. IBPS supports its fellow citizens by joining in the rebuilding efforts through Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, Kerala
WITH THE CHANGE IN CLIMATE CULTIVATE HOME GROWN RICE PLANT
IBPS pays tribute to late Dr Ashish Ghosh, Env scientist and ex-Director Zoological Survey of India on his Birthday by supporting and distributing his message imprinted on a tee-shirt to the people in Sunderban, West Bengal.
ENVIRONMENT
IBPS IS A PROUD PARTNER FOR THE WILD DIALOGUES
Conservation through Conversation event organized by Arannya Environment Research Organization (AERO) on 5th June 2018
LIVING WITH PYTHONS
IBPS actively supports a nationwide awareness initiative started by herpetologist and researcher Nirmal Kulkarni to instill appreciation about India’s 3 Python species. The Indian Rock Python, Burmese Python and Reticulated python. This is achieved through conservation outreach and field based herpetology techniques via on-field discussions, engagements with communities, youth and actively working with on-field Forest Department personnel. Join the movement click here
SOCIAL HISTORY CONSERVATION SPONSORSHIP
IBPS is the principal sponsor of Partition Studies Quarterly (PSQ), an academic journal that focuses on the dissemination of India’s Partition story. To understand what is happening in places scarred by Partition like Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal and Northeast India, PSQ believes that a slightly longer view of Partition history is needed, to trace the origins of current borders and divisions. It thereby, engages with the less-remembered Partition narratives of India within a larger discourse in an effort to recover the hidden voices of Partition history of the subcontinent.
To know more, please click here (link to their website: https://partitionstudiesquarterly.org/)
To know more, please click here (link to their website: https://partitionstudiesquarterly.org/)
HEALTHCARE
Creating knowledge on menstruation and menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls and women in targeted groups and community: Uddami India Foundation (our CSR Partner)
In Kolkata’s Borough I &II areas and Baruipur sub-division, IBPS has funded a project with Uddami India Foundation to ensure menstrual hygiene management through creating awareness, ensuring accessibility of sanitary napkins to girls and women through nurturing entrpreneurship among women’s groups, creating conversations engaging men and boys in a culturally practical manner as well as getting rid of harmful cultural norms, taboo and stigma surrounding menstruation.
IBPS Supports Blood Donation and Thalassemia Awareness Initiative
We actively participated in enabling a blood donation camp coupled with spreading awareness about Thalassemia. Photo features former Indian international footballer Subrata Bhattacharya
Contributing to the oxygen cylinder crisis during the Covid pandemic
During the peak of the pandemic while the country was facing an unprecedented crisis of oxygen cylinders, IBPS was able to source 30+ oxygen concentrators and distributed them to people in need across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra in collaboration with NGOs.
SPORTS
IBPS’S COMMITMENT TO SPORTS, A HEALTHY INDIA
We are proud to co-sponsor Southern Samity, a team in Calcutta Football league premiere division featuring Syrian International Al Amna, Nigerian International Ogba Kali Nnanna, Ghanaian International Samuel Kane and coached by ex India International Mehtab Hossain.
