Foundation for CSR @ Redington

REDINGTON CSR – CONNECT

February 2018

Employability Skills Training

Vocational Skills Training

Equipping Activities

Smart Schools

OUR CSR IMPACT

CELEBRATIONS

Editorial Content

Trainer Corner

CSR Impact Celebrations

Rise by Lifting Others

Student Corner

Placement Harvest in ROTN and North Zones

Dear Readers, it gives

great pleasure to share

with you all about our

Impact Celebrations in

this magazine.

The placement drives

are happening in full

swing in our Elite

Colleges. We are glad to

know that our students

are being shortlisted in

various organisations.

We expect the college

out goers to be an

instrument for making

difference in someone’s

life with their

knowledge and

opportunities.

Anushri Ghatak, Trainer,

Gwalior Centre

As we all must have heard this

statement before, that “Life Happens

When We Are Busy Planning Other

Things”.

Probably, this is the time when I can

agree with the same. It is because the

time I spent here at Redington

Foundation, I did not know that what it

will ever mean to me but now when I

turn back and look at those precious

moments I spent with the youth and

the Redington Foundation, I can

always be certain of one thing that I am

really very happy with the chances that

life has given me and is going to give

me.

I have learnt here a lot while helping

people to learn a bit from me. This is

the reason I love the profession, I am in

and will always cherish the same.

Trainer Corner

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Shalini Chugh, Trainer,

Delhi Centre

India’s young population is becoming

a liability. Almost 47% graduates are

not employable for any industry role.

Lack of communication skills, English

Language (commonly used industrial

language) and People skills are the

main obstacles in fetching them a job.

Delhi’s scenario is even more

complicated, being the capital city of

India, lot of people migrate to Delhi

for Jobs and further studies from

different cities, they have a different

level of education and exposure.

Most of these students can't afford

such sessions because they are

economically underprivileged.

Redington foundation is offering them

the perfect platform to hone these

skills by providing them with the

required infrastructure and 360

degrees curriculum, which help them

enhance their personality not only

just inside but also they thoroughly

work on their outer appearance.

As a personality enhancement trainer

with them I see a lot of changes in the

overall personality of these trainees.

They take so much practical

knowledge with them when

they finish off their sessions

and I can certainly say they

look and feel job ready.

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Celebration of your accomplishments raises your

awareness of what you have done.

Celebrate…You will come to know what you have done

We celebrated our accomplishments in various places where our centres

are located, as we have been nearing our 3rd Anniversary.

We all know that Corporate Social Responsibility means the every

qualifying company requires spending of at least 2% of its average net

profit for the immediately preceding 3 financial years on CSR as per the

India’s New Companies Act 2013. And when there are plenty of easy ways

to spend the money for the betterment of the society, Redington

Foundation took the hardest path for its service, but it strongly believes

that it is better to teach someone fishing rather than giving a fish.

We at Redington Foundation train our younger generation to acquire the

skills that are needed for them to survive and succeed in this competitive

world. For the past three years since 2015, we are involved in enormous

CSR activities and February and March of every year had been our

celebration period, which we also call as Impact Period. We commemorate

our past activities in this period and we cheer ourselves for the

succeeding activities.

The celebration of our achievements started in the month of February

and multiple events were conducted at various places. The events were

not restricted as just celebrations; we combined Socio-Cultural events,

Certification Ceremony, Paper Presentations, Science Exhibition, Inter-

college competition, International Conference on CSR, Sahyog

Scholarship events, Technical sessions, etc., along with celebrations. It

had also been a get-together of all the Redington staff.

CSR Impact Celebrations

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The first celebration started at Thoonga Nagaram, Madurai. CSR

Impact Celebration held on 17th February 2018 at IMA Hall, Madurai

was full of fun and entertainment. Dignitaries from our associated

organisations, Managing Trustee of Redington Foundation, Students,

some of the staff of Redington Group of Companies and our team was

present in the program. The program had Socio-Cultural Events along

with Certification Ceremony for our students.

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Next Impact program was held in Delhi, in two locations. Initially the

Redington CSR team went to Proconnect, Delhi to create awareness

among the Proconnect employees on CSR initiatives in that region

and involve the Proconnect employees in the CSR activities. And as a

part of awareness program CSR team arranged a soft skill training

for the employees on “Office Etiquettes”.

Secondly, the employees accompanied the CSR team to Ambedkar

Institute of Technology, wherein the MOU for Solar Panel Installation

and Maintenance training was signed between the Ambedkar

Institute of Technology and Redington Foundation. Thereby the

Proconnect employees came to know about the CSR activities and

showed interest and involvement in the further activities of CSR.

The next Impact celebration happened in Alwarkurichi at Sri

Paramkalyani Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli. The program

had bundle of extravaganzas. Students and Dignitaries from the

associate organisations were present in the meeting along

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with the Redington foundation team and staff of Redington Group of

Companies. Mr. Clynton Almeida, Chief Information Officer of

Redington India Ltd served as the Chief guest of the program and he

also served as the judge for the Science Project displays in the event.

The next was the International conference held at Trichy on 2nd

March 2018, on the topic “Recent Trends in CSR Projects at Redington

Foundation”. The conference was organised by the team of Redington

Foundation (RAMP Centre), Thanjavur. Mr. Raj Rajendran, Director of

TiE Tampa Bay, FL, USA served as the Chief Guest of the Conference.

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The intent of the Redington Foundation team to organize the

conference was to bring in an intellectual forum where our stake

holders can participate and share their concepts and ideas on the

Recent Trends in CSR Projects at Redington Foundation. Our

Trustees Dr. Poornima Rao and Mr. Muthukumarasamy and CEO of

ProConnect, Dr. R. Arunachalam were also present in the

programme.

In addition to the paper presentations of our stake holders the guests

shared their experience on the struggles and achievements with

regard to their education and career and the learning curves. It

facilitated us to understand the common attributes of all the life

experiences which will help us to refine the current standard context

of implementation strategy followed in Redington Foundation.

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We Rise By Lifting Others

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Redington Foundation is honoured to associate with Tirunelveli

Corporation for the development of the children of sanitary workers

and impart the trainings which will help them to become a

professional in the field of Teaching and Technical.

Corporation of Tirunelveli has initiated a project called “New Wings”

in an aim to improve the socio-economic condition of the children of

sanitary workers who have completed 12th and Diploma by providing

them the vocational training like Montessori Teacher Training for the

girls who have completed the Higher Secondary education and Solar

Installation and Maintenance Training for the guys who have

completed ITI / Diploma.

An incident which went viral on Social Medias regarding an attack of

a sanitary worker by a youth when there was a dispute with regard to

the collection of waste for disposal. A statement given by the sanitary

worker after the incident, brought tears in everyone’s eyes. He had

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mentioned that the disrespect he felt when a person younger to him

attacked him made to feel unworthy for living. This incident

reminded the society that still the discrimination with regard to the

social status prevails and we should take some serious steps to divert

the mindset of the children from taking up their ancestral profession

of sanitary cleaning.

This initiation is started also in a focus to stop deploying human and

to use the modern technologies to carryout these sanitary cleaning

works. Redington Foundation feels so proud to take part of this

project and the imparting of the Montessori Teacher Training

program had already started and being conducted in Sri Sarada

College for Women at Tirunelveli at free of cost.

The program which is running right now also contains 2 physically

challenged students and 11 economically backward student along

with the wards of sanitary workers. We are planning to start the Solar

Installation and Maintenance Training shortly.

We wish to join hands with Tirunelveli corporation to provide many

more trainings like this which will help to eradicate unemployment

and improve the socio-economic status of the educationally and

economically backward group of our society.

These type of initiations gives us the strength that our motto to “make

difference in someone’s life” will be attained constantly.

உன்னிடம் உள்ள பயத்தை என்னிடம்

க ொடுத்துவிடு என்றொய்!

முைலில் ையங்கினேன்!

பின்புக ொடுத்துவிட்னடன்!

அைற்க்கு நீ க ொடுத்ை பரிசுதைரியம்!

சிற்பினய சிதைதயவடிப்பொன்!

நீனயொ ல்லின்த யினைனயஉளிதய

க ொடுத்துவிட்டொய், இைவசமொ !

ல்னை ைன்தே சிற்பியொ

வடித்துக்க ொண்டது நீ க ொடுத்ை

பயிற்சியொல்!

திரவனுக்கும்விடுைதைஉண்டு

ொர் ொைத்தில்!

உேக்ன ொவிடுைதைஇல்தைநல்ை

மனிைதேஉருவொக்குவதில்.

Student Corner

- கச. அனிைொ

முைைொம் ஆண்டு

கபொருளறிவியல், ல்வியியல்.

Drawing by

V. Anithasree

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Every fresher dreams to get placed immediately after the final year of

their studies and it also makes them feel fulfilled with regard to their

first achievement in their career. The current scenario in India is just

contrast to the expectations of the college out goers. A UN Labour

report shows that “Unemployment in India is projected to increase

from 17.8 million to 18 million in 2018”. One of the main reasons for

the unemployment is identified as the employability skills that the

students are lacking with. Though the educational level has improved

in these recent years, skill improvement is still being a pivotal

problem.

Redington Foundation is involved in reforming this situation and

support the students by imparting the necessary employability skills.

But it is also true that there is a huge gap between the rural colleges

and the corporate companies with respect to the placement drives,

therefore Redington Foundation attempted to eliminate this gap by

organising placement drives at the rural colleges with the

coordination of the corporate companies and colleges.

Placement Harvest

in ROTN and North

Zones

As the result, there were so many placement drives happening in the

colleges where our centres are located and the same was shared in the

previous magazine. In February 2018, our Rest of Tamilnadu (ROTN)

zone and North zone in coordination with the college placement cell

had contributed for the placement drive activities. Totally 453

students of ROTN from elite colleges Sengunthar Arts And Science

College, Tiruchengode, AVVM Sri Pushpam College, Thanjavur, Annai

Women’s College, Karur, Annai Arts and Science College,

Kumbakonam, AG Arts and Science College, Tiruppur and 327

students from North zone elite colleges,

Kanchi Sri Krishna College Of Arts & Science, Thirumurugan Arts

And Science College For Women have got shortlisted by various

corporate companies. We wish the students All The Best.

We wish to join hands with more corporate companies to conduct

more placement drives for our students. Every successful placement

drive reminds us that the vision to see our society free from the clutch

of unemployment issue will be attained soon and Redington

Foundation will be a part of that success. 12

CONTACT US

FOUNDATION FOR CSR @ REDINGTON2ND FLOOR, JANAKI BHAVAN,

NO.73, SARDAR PATEL ROAD, GUINDY,

[NEAR LEMON TREE HOTEL],

CHENNAI – 600 032. TAMILNADU, INDIA

VISIT US ATwww.redingtonfoundation.org