A vasara: opportunity. The Pune-headquartered heat transfer, separation and fluid handling solutions provider Alfa Laval India’s major initiative in CSR is the empowerment of promising girls to lead lives of distinction and impact. Over the past couple of years, the company has supported 40 bright girls from the Avasara Academy with scholarships.
While the scholarship programme is for five years, ending in 2023, Alfa Laval has also set up a modern library under the focus area of education, and installed solar panels on the school’s four buildings in its endeavour to help the environment.
A three-member CSR team met the students one-on-one before finalising the scholarships. Having been selected on the basis of both academic scores and their financial situation, these students are the beneficiaries of a scholarship from the sixth standard till they pass the 10th, or the eighth to 12th standards. The school gives Alfa Laval periodic reports on these children’s progress.
The engagement with Avasara, a secondary school that educates girls of exceptional promise for a lifetime of leadership and contribution to society, is the company’s biggest CSR project, complementing its business principle under community engagement: “Alfa Laval wants to make a positive contribution to the local community, appropriate to its size as an employer in the community. We will place emphasis on activities that support the development and care of children’s rights, education and health.”
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Students head into the Avasara Academy
