Texas Instruments (TI) calls it ‘citizenship’, not CSR. In keeping with the vision of the company’s founders dating back more than 85 years - to create a positive impact in the communities in which they operate - TI India too has a Citizenship team. A voluntary body of its employees here, it works in environmental, educational, healthcare, hunger elimination and other community-focussed programmes on the premise that every individual can change the world and steer her/his own future if given a chance to do so. The TI India Citizenship programme aims to, first, enhance the quality of and access to education in India, especially for socio-economically disadvantaged students and promoting gender equality in schools. Its ‘Back to School’, ‘Mobile Science Lab’ and ‘School Adoption’ programmes reach out to around 30,000 school children. It is also involved in water body conservation and tree planting projects. The school adoption programme, which has the stated aim of improving the learning experience and quality of education for children from select government schools, involves improving the infrastructure facilities including setting up computer labs and introducing smart classes. It also provides for additional teachers for computer education and offering special training sessions for scholarship programmes.
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TI India worked with the Akshaya Patra Foundation to feed over 575,000 people stranded by Covid-19