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1 Project Shakti promoting Project Shakti is an We will increase the
education, initiative to financially number of Shakti
including special empower rural women Entrepreneurs that we
education and and create livelihood recruit, train and employ
employment opportunities for them. from 45,000 in 2010 to
enhancing Through this project, the 72,000 in 2016.
vocation skills Company endeavors to
especially among enhance livelihoods of
children, women, rural women. Around
elderly and the 70% of Shakti Ammas
differently abled are working in low
and livelihood Human Development
enhancement Index (HDI < 0.51)
projects districts.

We contact and appoint

rural women as Shakti
Entrepreneurs (SE),
commonly referred as
'Shakti Ammas'. SE is
educated and trained by
the rural promoter about
the Company products
and their utility in day to
day life in maintaining
health and hygiene.
After being trained about
the products she
receives stocks from our
rural distributor at a
discount below the price
at which the products
are sold in the normal
course. The Shakti

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Entrepreneur then sells
these goods both
directly to consumers
(through home to home
selling) and to retailers
in the village. The
Company has trained
thousands of Shakti
Ammas across the
villages in a bid to
develop an
entrepreneurial mindset
and make them
financially independent
and more empowered.

2 Swachh Aadat 1. Eradicating • The project is in line

Swachh Bharat hunger, poverty with Government of
and India’s Swachh
malnutrition; Bharat Abhiyan to
promoting promote good health
health care and hygiene
including practices and aims
preventive to achieve the
health care and Swachh Bharat
sanitation goals by 2019. The
including goal is to popularise
contribution to the adoption of 3
the ‘Swachh clean habits:
Bharat Kosh’ (i) wash hands
set up by the before meals and
Central after defecation,
Government for (ii) adopt safe
the promotion drinking water
of sanitation practices and
and making

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available safe (iii) stop open
drinking water. defecation.
2. Ensuring • Build partnerships to
environmental identify, advocate,
sustainability, create awareness of
ecological existing solutions
balance, and to create new
protection of ones in the areas of
flora and fauna, Waste Management
animal welfare, and Sanitation.
agroforestry,
conservation of
natural
resources and
maintaining
quality of soil,
air and water.
3 Hand Washing Promoting More than 600,000 This initiative will help
Behaviour Change preventive children in India do not reduce the incidence of
Programme healthcare and reach the age of five due life-threatening diseases
sanitation to infections like like diarrhea and
diarrhea and pneumonia which claim
pneumonia. lives of over 600,000
Independent research children in India.
has shown that washing
hands with soap at five
critical times in a day The initiative aims to
can reduce the reach 163 million people
incidence of these by 2020.
infections significantly.
Therefore inculcating
behavior change
amongst people is
important. The
experience shows that
children are in the best

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position to bring in this
change among their
respective families. The
Company conducts
hand washing
awareness programmes
in anganwadis (pre-
school centre) and
schools. Under the
initiatives such as Help
A Child Reach 5 and
School Contact
Programs in Bihar in
partnership with
Children Investment
Fund Foundation (CIFF)
and the Government
of Bihar, the Company
promotes handwashing
behaviour change
among children in
Bihar.
4 Domex Toilet Promoting The World Health Half of the population in
Academy (DTA) preventive Organisation and United India does not have
healthcare and Nations Children’s access to proper
sanitation Education Fund sanitation facilities. In
(UNICEF) estimate that many cases people do
there are more than 620 not use toilets for
million people practicing defecation. Therefore, it
open defecation due to is important to create
lack of access to proper awareness about
sanitation and 60% of all behavior change on
open defecations in the improved sanitation.
world are in India.
DTA and eKutir Rural
Management Services

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Private Limited, a social In the long run and by
enterprise identifies and 2020, we will help large
trains local micro- number of people to
entrepreneurs who help improve their hygiene
execute the project in habits in India.
their local communities
by supplying and
building toilets. DTA
provides the seed
capital to these
entrepreneurs through
eKutir to start up their
activity, and also helps
with initial operational
costs for the execution
of the project.
The objective is to
reduce the incidence of
open defecation and
improve proper
sanitation thereby
promoting preventive
healthcare. DTA works
with local self-help
groups who educate
people on the
importance of proper
sanitation and provide
them access to micro-
loans through micro-
finance institutions to
buy the toilets from the
local micro-entrepreneur
appointed by DTA.

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5 Safe Drinking Making available The lack of safe drinking We aim to make safe
Water safe drinking water water is a major public drinking water available
health issue, particularly and affordable to people
in developing countries from economically
where majority of weaker sections of
diseases are society in partnership
waterborne. Pureit in- with microfinance and
home water purifier NGO partners in India.
provides water 'as safe
as boiled water', without
the need for electricity or
running water. Pureit
partners with NGOs
across the country to
make safe drinking
water accessible to
people.
6 FAL Foundation promoting The Foundation The Foundation is
education, identifies academically around a decade old. It
including special exceptional girls from is a long term endeavor
education and financially challenged of the Company to help
employment backgrounds and offers exceptionally bright girls
enhancing scholarships to the with scholarships
vocation skills candidates. To maintain granted through FAL
especially among integrity and fairness the Foundation.
children, women, selection is done by a
elderly and the panel of eminent
differently abled personalities from
and livelihood diverse fields.
enhancement
projects
7 Sustainable Ensuring An important part of our We are committed to
Sourcing environmental raw materials come from sourcing all our
sustainability, farms and decisions agricultural raw
ecological balance, relating to such materials sustainably by
protection of flora procurement can have 2020.

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and fauna, animal profound implications on
welfare, climate change and
agroforestry, farmers’ livelihoods.
conservation of In 2012, we entered into
natural resources a public-private
and maintaining partnership with the
quality of soil, air Maharashtra
and water. Government for
sustainable sourcing of
tomatoes locally.
8 Water Ensuring Estimates tell us that by By 2020, our
Conservation environmental 2030, the supply of partnerships and
Projects sustainability, water in India will be half collective actions would
ecological balance, its demand. To make available a
protection of flora understand and partake cumulative water
and fauna, animal in meeting this potential of 500 billion
welfare, agro- challenge, we set up the liters across India.
forestry, Hindustan Unilever
conservation of Foundation in 2010. It is
natural resources a Section 8 not-for-profit
and maintaining company that anchors
quality of soil, air various community
and water. development initiatives
of Hindustan Unilever
Limited. Hindustan
Unilever Foundation
supports national
priorities for socio-
economic development,
through its Water for
Public Good
programme. Each of our
projects also complies
with the requirements of
the National Voluntary

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Guidelines and the
Companies Act, 2013.
9 Relief Funds Contribution to the HUL has always been at Driven by occurrence of
Prime Minister's the forefront in event.
National Relief responding to its call for
Fund or any other national duty and has
fund set up by the contributed generous
Central amounts for upliftment of
Government for community hit by natural
socio-economic disasters. It has done
development and this through contribution
relief and welfare to Government relief
of the Scheduled funds
Castes, the
Scheduled Tribes,
other backward
classes, minorities
and women.
10 Prabhat Rural development ‘Prabhat’ (Dawn) is a The project aims to
projects program which focuses create a positive social
on communities around impact in the lives of 1
our factories. The areas million people.
of intervention are
Health & Hygiene,
raising livelihoods and
conserving water. The
Water Conservation
initiative is led by
Hindustan Unilever
Foundation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of
HUL which looks at
improving the water
security in selected
regions. The Livelihood
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empower today’s youth
by providing them with
employable skills
thereby enhancing their
livelihoods. HUL is
collaborating with NGOs
to implement the project.
11 Happy Homes: Setting up homes • Asha Daan: The Ongoing and long term
Asha Daan & and hostels for initiative began in charitable activity. To
Ankur women and 1976, when HUL provide shelter to the
orphans supported Mother underprivileged
Teresa and the members of the society;
Missionaries of Charity these include
to set up Asha Daan, a abandoned, challenged
home in Mumbai for children, the HIV-
abandoned, positive and the
challenged children, destitute. While HUL
the HIV-positive and funds the annual
the destitute. Asha maintenance of the
Daan has been set up premises, the
on a 72,500-square Missionaries of Charity
feet plot belonging to look after the inmates.
HUL, in the heart of
Mumbai city. Since the
inception of Asha Daan
in 1976, HUL has been
looking after the
maintenance of the
premises. At any point
of time, HUL takes
care of over 400
infants, destitute men
and women and HIV-
positive patients at
Asha Daan.

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• Ankur: Ankur is a
centre for special
education for otherwise
challenged children at
the Doom Dooma in
Assam. It was set up in
1993 by HUL’s
Plantations Division at
Doom Dooma. Ankur
provides educational,
vocational and
recreational activities
to specially-abled
children.
12 Sanjivani Promoting HUL runs a free mobile Ongoing and long term
preventive medical service camp -- preventive healthcare
healthcare Sanjivani -- near its activity. Our aspiration
Doom Dooma Factory in is to provide healthcare
Assam. The aim is to in far and remote areas
provide free mobile where basic medical
medical facility in the facility is not available
interior villages of through our mobile
Assam. There are two medical service camps
mobile vans dedicated and thereby help a large
to the project, each number of the
vehicle has one male population over a period
and one female doctor, of time.
two nurses, a medical
attendant (helper) and a
driver. The vans are
equipped with basic kits
such as diagnostic kit,
blood pressure
measuring unit,
medicines and a mobile
stretcher.

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13 Rin Career Ready promoting The program aims to
Academy education, inspire, educate & equip
including special the youth from modest
education and backgrounds with skills
employment in English training,
enhancing Office Dressing and
vocation skills Interviewing. The
especially among program allows all the
children, women, participants to take the
elderly and the course by simply giving
differently abled a missed call. Deserving
and livelihood individuals shall be put
enhancement up for a more intensive
projects face to face 3 week
course, designed to suit
their needs.

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