Dr. Reddy's Foundation ❤

CONTEXT & CHANGE

To empower communities through improved education, health, livelihood and climate action outcomes; Dr. K. Anji Reddy, a renowned scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, started Dr. Reddy’s Foundation.

CONFLICT

Bring curated programs for solving problems under each domain

CHALLENGES & COUNTER

1. Healthcare:
Lack of trained and certified personnel has forced the industry to engage untrained & uncertified personnel.

2. Education
Low quality-education and Poor learning outcomes

High Quality Healthcare Skilling (HQHCS) - Train youth to join non-medical healthcare sector as AHPs

  1. Kallam Anji Reddy Vidyalaya at Chandanagar (Hyderabad) - High-quality education accessible to all
  2. School Improvement Program - enabling learning environment, appropriate infrastructure

3. Skill Development
Unemployment & under-employment
among underprivileged unskilled youth

  1. GROW - 60-days training - Core Employability Skills
  2. GROW Digital - Learning Management System (LMS) for virtual learning process.

4. Inclusion
Diverse groups form only 20% of workforce
(only 1% out of 5 mn youth with disability currently employed)

  1. GROW PwD - 2-month ‘Core Employability Skills’ training prog, covers 11 different disabilities; job match-making
  2. Sashakt - young girls from poor socio-economic backgrounds - careers in STEM

5. Rural Livelihoods
Small landholdings - lack of access to
extension service, low farm mechanization,
lack of access to finance & inputs,
and fragmented markets

MITRA - nudging small & marginal farmers to adopt latest technologies and best farming practices.

6. Climate Action & Environment

  1. Climate change disproportionately burdens
    the marginalized farming population
  2. Agriculture both contributes and is
    impacted by climate change

ACE - Climate-proofing the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers by encouraging the adoption of technologies and practices that sequester carbon and lower GHG emissions

CONCLUSION

Interventions are in line with UN SDGs to sustainably empower socially and economically disadvantaged communities.