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Website: www.reliancefoundation.org
Reliance Corporate Park, Ground Floor Project Office, 5 TTC
Industrial Area,
Thane-Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400701,
India.
Email: [email protected] Phone: +91 22
44770000
Fulfilling Aspirations. Transforming India...
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The Reliance growth story is intricately tied enormous
challenges it faces on the social
to Indias social and economic development. development
front.
I firmly believe that the purpose of any business
cannot be driven by profit alone. Each one of
Shri Mukesh D. Ambanius has to commit to building a better
world. Chairman & Managing Director
India has to find its unique solutions to the Reliance
Industries Ltd.
OUR INSPIRATION
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Reliance Foundation is the manifestation of an power of
education and pays utmost attention to
audacious dream: to inspire and facilitate the health of its
citizens; and an India that celebrates
its values, culture and traditions, while preserving
transformative change and build an inclusive India -
its heritage.an India that empowers its youth to harness
their
potential; an India that builds bridges between its
rural hinterland and the urban economy; an India Smt. Nita M.
Ambani
that provides a better quality of life for all in the
ChairpersonReliance Foundationurban areas; an India that leverages
the phenomenal
LET US BUILD AN INCLUSIVE INDIA
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THE LAND OF A BILLION DREAMSIndia is a nation of a billion
dreams, a billion Reliance Foundation directly engages with
aspirations and above all great opportunities. communities
through a team of trained
To turn these dreams into reality and help transform
professionals in five core areas of Rural
the lives of Indias underprivileged, Reliance Foundation
Transformation, Education, Health, Urban
is working with communities across various states. Renewal and
Arts, Culture & Heritage.
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RURAL TRANSFORMATIONReliance Foundation helps improve livelihood
RF-BIJ helps marginal farmers build self-reliant
opportunities by empowering rural communities institutions,
follow sustainable agricultural
through organisational and technology-based practices and
empower communities.
interventions through its Bharat-India Jodo (RF-Institution
Building
BIJ) and Information Services (RF-IS) initiatives.
The team helps create Village Farmers Associations Reliance
Foundation BIJ
(VFAs) and Producer Companies (PCs). While the
RF-BIJ is working towards bridging the developmental VFAs are
collectives of small and marginal farmers
gap between rural Bharat and urban India by in a village to help
transform semi-productive or
supporting small and marginal farmers along the
uncultivated farm lands into productive assets, the value chain
through input provision, technical, post-
PCs serve as interfaces to optimise returns from harvest and
marketing support. The programme
is spread across 16 agro-ecological zones of India. their farm
produce.
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Sustainable Agricultural Practices Reliance Nutrition Gardens
(RNGs) are low cost,
organic and scientifically developed kitchen garden RF BIJ helps
address food security for rural
models that use a multi-tier cropping system to households. It
also helps create sustainable
produce a variety of vegetables. RNGs enhance the livelihoods
and protects the environment through
nutritional intake of rural households.initiatives such as
Dharti Farms, Rain Water
Harvesting, Seed Banks, Nurseries, Bio Gas and Rain water
harvesting: The initiative helps
Reliance Nutrition Gardens.marginal farmers conserve water
through various
soil and moisture conservation measures, Dharti farms help
de-risk marginal farmers by
including construction of mini-dams and other enhancing farm
land productivity by deploying
useful structures.mixed cropping and enhance soil fertility.
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institutions, extension departments, individual Reliance
Foundation Information
experts, policy makers, innovative practitioners, Services
(RF-IS)
traders and financial institutions. RF IS uses various
communication and
Apart from direct interventions, RF-IS provides technological
channels to provide information
mobile-based vernacular audio/text advisories;relating to rural
development, livelihood security
live phone-in-programmes; audio conferencing issues and
preventive health to rural population,
between two or multiple locations; cable as a neutral service
provider. The team delivers
TV-based live phone-in-programmes; wireless-timely,
context-specific advisories in local
based public address system; SMS-based languages in a sustained
manner.
electronic display boards; posters; and makes RF-IS collects
information on rural community
announcements through mobile units and needs and builds
value-added content through
fortnightly vernacular journals.partnerships with universities,
research
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EDUCATIONReliance Foundation uses multi pronged country. RF
complements these initiatives with
initiatives to provide access to quality primary i t s Dhi rubha
i Ambani Underg raduate
and secondary education to thousands of students Scholarships,
including many for differently
through a network of schools across the abled students.
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To alleviate health related challenges arising from cloud-based
software. These also have biometric
the lack of preventive and primary care, RFs recording
facilities to identify patients to ensure
Health Outreach Programme reaches out to the seamless continuity
of care.
vulnerable sections of society, creates awareness of RF has
launched a Menstrual Hygiene Programme
common health problems and offers remedial to address low
awareness levels on menstrual
measures to help reduce the load on tertiary care. hygiene and
makes affordable sanitary napkins
RFs dedicated team targets below-poverty-line easily accessible
to women in villages.
(BPL) families and goes to the catchment areas to
enrol them for basic and preventive care. RFs fully-
equipped Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) and Static
Medical Units (SMUs) provide free medical services
and use state-of-the-art technology, including
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HEALTH
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technology across core specialties, as well as Reliance
Foundation Drishti
imaging and diagnostics. The new hospital is being Reliance
Foundations Drishti programme is an
built to deliver world-class tertiary health care.initiative to
improve the quality of life of the
visually-impaired and has supported thousands of
cornea transplants across India. RF also launched
a registered, national fortnightly Hindi newspaper
in braille and circulates it free of cost to the visually
impaired. The Foundation also publishes a braille
calendar in Hindi.
Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital
& Research Centre
Reliance Foundation is transforming Sir H N
Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre
into a state-of-the-art facility. The 1-million square
feet area hospital will have the latest of clinical
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To make Indias rapidly growing urban areas positive changes in
some of Indias largest cities.
amenable to higher quality of life for all, including RF is
partnering with various municipal bodies to
for those in low-income groups, Reliance undertake development
efforts in urban planning,
Foundation is working on initiatives that engineer public
spaces, environment and security of citizens.
URBAN RENEWAL
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Reliance Foundation is re imagining ways to
protect and promote Indias priceless heritage to
not only sustain but also make art and culture
relevant to the younger generation.
To this end, RF supports legendary artists in many
of their creative endeavours, besides supporting
internationally acclaimed exhibitions for
educational purposes.
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ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE
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Reliance Foundation has in built skills, such to make available
general and specialised medical
as healthcare and technological expertise, as support. RFs
rehabilitation work involved building
well as the experience of closely working with livelihood
opportunities for the affected families,
the communities, to ably reach out to the needy rebuilding
educational institutions and constructing
in the unforeseen event of natural disasters. new homes for the
homeless.
Resultantly, RF can quickly mobilize relief and
rehabilitation operations.
RF team was among the first to provide relief to
the people affected by disastrous floods in
Uttarakhand in June 2013, by reaching the
unreached areas against all odds. RF team members
were directly engaged in relief work round-the-clock
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DISASTER RESPONSE
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RF Farm Research Centre
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