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As a part of celebrating World Environment Day the Pune Chapter organized a ‘Think Eat Save’ campaign across the PDC 2 cafeteria. Volunteers requested employees to think about food wastage and attempt to reduce it by not wasting food and encouraging others to not waste food as well.

Volunteers also participated in a weekly spoken English class organized by Friends of Children, Pune.

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Seva Sahayog Foundation, organized a drive to donate school kits to underprivileged children in order to motivate them to pursue their education. Around 7 volunteers from the Pune Chapter participated in the drive and helped assembling the school kits as well as distributing them.

Ashraya, a home for the elderly and Sri Krishna Children Orphanage were visited by volunteers from the Hyderabad Chapter. The volunteers spend some quality time and also distributed some toys, books and eatables.

Another set of volunteers visited the children of ‘Cheers Foundation’, an orphanage in Hyderabad. The team spent quality time with the children and distributed stationery items. The Pheonix Account team mobilized funds for the stationery, gifts and organizing games for the children.

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A dedicated team of volunteers from our Kochi Chapter have been visiting Mar Athenatius School, Kakkanad & Thripunithura Girls Higher Secondary School through Amara Foundation. The volunteers help the children with basic written and spoken English at these schools.

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On the occasion of World Environment Day, 101 saplings were planted at the TB & Chest Hospital, Mysore by 40 volunteers from GSMC. The initiative generated awareness on the importance of saving the environment around us.

mysoreOn 16th June 2013 around 40 volunteers from our Chennai Chapter participated in the Chennai Coastal Clean up. The Chennai Coastal Cleanup attempted to clean the coastline from Marina till Injambakkam. 36.7 tons of garbage was collected in the cleanup.

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The Zurich Insurance Group team participated in the Sunday Breakfast Serving along with Aashayein Foundation. They served breakfast to 85 residents of Sevasadan, an orphanage in Bangalore. The Zurich team also collected funds which were handed over to the Wipro Cares team.

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Our Mumbai Chapter is earnestly trying to make a difference in the lives of the elderly at JJ Dharamshala at Byculla. They visit the residents of the old age home every weekend and liven their weekends by playing different kind of games and as well as practicing yoga. The volunteers spend time individually as well as in groups with the elderly. Apart from this the volunteers of the Mumbai Chapter also participated in a summer camp organized by CHIP Mumbai and spent quality time with the children by educating them about road safety.

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The Kotdwar team organized an awareness session on environment.

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The Kolkata Chapter spent some quality time with children from an orphanage and a school for street children. The team also gave old linen to the orphanage.

Another team of volunteers organized a ‘Fun Day Outing’ with the differently abled people of Turning Point at Eco Tourism Park at Kolkata. The day was full of laughter, songs, games, dance, poetry, the day was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

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The UAE Chapter organized a drawing competition at Manzil Foundation, an organization for differently abled children.U.A.E

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Wipro Cares organized a blood donation drive across 9 cities. The drive was specifically to assist patients suffering from thalassemia, we partnered with Think Foundation to organize the blood donation drive across the cities. . A total of 3696 units of blood were collected through the drive. We would like to thank each and every employee who made this possible; your generosity is deeply appreciated.

The enthusiastic volunteers of the Mumbai Chapter have been visiting multiple organizations to meaningfully engage with underprivileged communities for the past several years. In the last couple of years they have been visiting Each One Teach One (EOTO) and Sneha Sadan. Recently they added Children in Pain (CHIP) and Sir JJ Dharamhala to the list of organizations that they visit. While EOTO, Sneha Sadan and CHIP primarily work with children from disadvantaged backgrounds Sir JJ Dharamshala is an old age home for elderly citizens who have nobody to support them.

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BLOOD DONATION DRIVE

The team at Mumbai Chapter cherishes each moment spent with the children and residents of Sir JJ Dharamshala. From assisting children with their academics and providing them with life skills to helping elderly people find reason to live, the team at the Mumbai Chapter does it all. We really appreciate the dedication and enthusiasm of the team.

volunteersAKSHATA TARE

ANOOP SINGHBRIAN

HEMANT BINANI

KAKOLI DASH

NIDHI PANDEY

PERWEEN TRIVEDI PRERNA PRIYAMVADA SAGAR

SANDEEP SATPATHY SHWETA SINHA

SNEHAL CHOUGHULE

YAGNESH MALVIYA

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We acknowledge all the volunteers

who have directly or indirectly

supported all the events and drives in

various manners. It could have been

by means of participating, initiating,

coordinating and organizing a

drive, sorting out the collected stuff,

conducting interactive, entertaining

and meaningful sessions for various

age groups of people/children,

creating a support structure for all the

events or by contributing monetarily

to the Wipro Cares Trust. We

appreciate your passion and gesture!

want to

join us?

It is never too late to join Wipro Cares’ initiatives.

To know more about any of our endeavors visit http://www.wipro.org/community/wipro-cares.html’To join any one of them, please do write at

wipro.cares@wipro.comSee you after a quarter!

Until then, Warm Regards,

Wipro Cares

a vote of thanks

to volunteers

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