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Annual Report 2018-19
Community Development:
Growing
Stronger by Coming Together
Under the area of community development,
initiatives are deployed based on a need
assessment of urban and rural communities.
Each of these initiatives has a community
participation component both in the planning
and implementation of the project.
Addressing a Basic Need: Water
Water
, a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and
nearly colorless chemical substance is the
primary constituent of human life.
As part of our community development efforts,
the Foundation addresses this need through
these two flagship initiatives:
Watershed projects in rain shadow areas:
Through these projects, we undertook a total
of 17.38 km of desilting, 35,500 cum desilting of
percolation tanks, and the construction of 2 check
dams. The work was completed in 2 villages. We
were able to reach out to 3,910 farmers, achieving
a positive impact on 2,640 hectares of land.
Open well construction projects in remote
areas:
To date, Persistent Foundation has
supported the construction of 18 wells in
partnership with Jana Praboshini and Toran
Rajgad Parisar Nyas. In FY 2018-19, as it was
adopted as a flagship project, 11 open wells were
constructed in a year.
Employees’ involvement in community
development initiatives
Out of 3,383 volunteers in FY 2018-19, 954
(28.20%) spent 2,217 volunteer hours on various
Community Development drives.
In the area of Community Development, we
launched 7 donation drives in line with the
projects implemented by the Foundation. Out
of 5,548 donors in FY 2018-19, 2,867 (51.68%)
donated
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57.15 lakhs.
Employee Contributions towards
the Cause
Tree Plantation
Kerela Floods
Relief
Support for
CRPF Jawans
No. of Employees Patients Benefited
Amount
243
250
960
872
2.42
30.48
15 15.18
0
Employee Contributions towards
the Cause (contd.)
Open Well
Projects
The Joy of Giving
Support for
Snehavan
Semicolons
Hackathon
No. of Employees Patients Benefited
Amount
187
237
90
278
1.66
3.41
3.17
0.83
150
250
250
150