HZL SDR 2017-18

Employee Engagement

• Khushi Baatiye • Paint for Joy • Movie Screening for visually challenged children

• Holi Ke Rang Jeevan Tarang Ke Sang • International Women's Day

Ensuring physical and emotional well-being of our employees, and encouraging them to lead fuller lives is an essential part of our organisational culture. One way of ensuring this has been to encourage employees to volunteer with non-profit and educational organisations. This year, HZL is proud to report that employee engagement in our CSR activities has increased. More and more employees are volunteering. Volunteering inspires employees, helping them gain new perspectives, develop leadership skills, and work better as a team.

During the year, nearly 2,000 employees contributed 2,096 man-hours in various CSR initiatives.

KHUSHI BAATIYE

A fundraising campaign on Diwali that brought Khushi in the lives of children of Anganwadis, saw 304 employees raising funds to the tune of INR 10.56 lakh, with additional funds provided by HZL. The money was used to present new sets of clothes and sandals to over 64,000 children at the Khushi Anganwadis.

AUDIO DESCRIBED MOVIE

In a first of its kind initiative, the blockbuster film 'Dangal' was screened in an Audio Descriptive format for 110 visually impaired children in Udaipur. The screening was also attended by 130 HZL employees.

SUMMER & WINTER CAMPS

As part of our Shiksha Sambal Project, employees and their spouses have often been mentors to children attending the camps, supporting them on both academic and non-academic activities like theatre, music, yoga, craft, self-defence, etc.

PAINT FOR JOY

Around 100 of our HZL staff enthusiastically participated in this painting event for children with autism, cerebral palsy and hearing impairment. The children and our employees spent the day painting to their hearts' content.

HOLI KE RANG

This year, employees celebrated Holi with organic Gulal as part of a fund-raising effort by Prayas Sansthan, Udaipur. The money from the sales of over 3,000 packets enabled Prayas to buy their centre's first television. Around 1,100 employees and families as well as people from communities across all locations purchased Gulal to contribute to this noble cause.