Noida, Aug 11, 2024: The HCLFoundation on Sunday undertook the plantation of 48,000 native saplings across several cities in the country to mark the 48th anniversary of the global technology company HCL Group.
The HCLFoundation delivers the corporate social responsibility agenda of HCLTech in India. HCLTech employees, along with their families, non-profit collaborators, members of the community and women's collectives participated in the initiative. The plantation drive was conducted across several cities such as Noida, Bengaluru, Nagpur, Chennai, Madurai and Lucknow.
“The successful completion of this extensive plantation drive reflects our ongoing efforts to support environmental conservation and sustainable development. By planting 2.8 million saplings till date, HCLFoundation’s efforts have resulted in bringing 232.9 acres under native plantation, more than 80 billion litres of water being harvested and thus creating a habitat for biodiversity. We are thankful for every participant who supported us in contributing towards our mission of a sustainable future,” said Dr Nidhi Pundhir, Senior Vice President, Global CSR, HCLTech and Director, HCLFoundation.
HCLFoundation contributes to national and international development goals by investing in longterm sustainable programs and special initiatives with thematic focus on education, nurturing grassroots sports, health and sanitation, skill development and livelihood, environment and disaster risk reduction and response management. To ensure equitable development, child protective strategies, inclusion and gender transformative approaches are at the core of all the programs of the Foundation. Till date, the HCLFoundation has positively impacted over 5.5 million lives.
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