Each shoe is priced at INR 299

The Gifted

The gifted shoes will be distributed through our NGO partners. Last year, we ensured that more than 1000 children received shoes through this initiative via various NGOs.

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• NGOs

The gifted shoes will be distributed through our NGO partners. Last year, we ensured that more than 1000 children received shoes through this initiative via various NGOs.

• chindrens
• NGOs

The beneficiariesincluded, among others, children from slum areas, children studying in municipality schools, children from the rag-picking communities, orphanages, children undergoing cancer treatment and other underprivileged children across the states of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in India.

Fact File

Though it is a deemed university, the representative of the Trust is still the chairman of the governing board. JRD Tata himself headed the board for a number of years. Like Jamsetji Tata, he too believed that wealth must be ploughed back for regeneration of society. The Tatas have financially supported the institute with critical grants for the building and the rural campus. Located 500km from Mumbai (near Solapur in Maharashtra), the rural campus is in a chronically drought prone area. A parched hillock has been successfully greened, and various other projects are taking shape here.

On the cards are centres for developmental studies, disaster management, domestic violence and human rights. At the moment, small projects are under way in these areas. The Institute is also facilitating the setting up of similar units in other parts of the country. It is holding workshops and running programmes to share knowledge with other universities.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

TISS is contributing towards teaching, training, research, and extending technical support to voluntary organisations, as well as capacity building in educational institutions, including primary education. "The inspiration of Jamsetji, the stewardship of JRD as chairman of the governing board, and the philanthropy of Dorabji constitute a confluence which has nurtured, supported and strengthened us," says Mr Singh.

The Tata culture of giving back flows from the tradition of nation and community building sowed more than a century back by Jamsetji Tata, the Founder of the group. Tata companies are involved in a wide variety of community development projects, which relate to skills training and entrepreneurship, livelihoods and women empowerment. 

Tata companies work towards empowering people by helping them develop the skills they need to succeed in a global economy. The group equips communities with information, technology and the capacity to achieve improved health, education and livelihood outcomes.

Tata Group

Tata group companies are strongly driven by international benchmarks for sustainable practices in business. But a greater portion of what the group does in this sphere is by choice and conviction. From this flows its support for endeavours to conserve plant and animal species, improve land and water use, and protect forest tracts and green sanctuaries.

The group's contribution to conservation falls into two categories: the efforts of different Tata companies, big and small, to preserve and enrich the environment in and around their areas of operation, and the philanthropic thrust of the Tata Trusts, which support a diverse cluster of non-governmental organisations working in areas such as the management of natural resources, community development and livelihoods.

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