RELIANCE FOUNDATION
Reliance Foundation provides technical knowhow and resources to enhance livelihood opportunities of farmers and fisherfolk. The Foundation reached out to over 94,000 households involved in agriculture and marine fishery in more than 5,500 villages.
It has supplemented the nutritional intake of rural households through small kitchen gardens that provide vegetables and fruits to more than 26,600 families.
Water harvesting, structures serving as critical sources of irrigation for communities living in dry and rain-fed areas, were created to harvest and store 447 lakh cubic metres of rain water.
The Foundation's health initiatives have reached out to over 4 lakh marginalised and urban poor in Mumbai within three years of operations.
Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre has been rebuilt and launched to provide world-class tertiary care.
Reliance Foundation Drishti has helped improve the vision of more than 14,000 people through free corneal transplants. The initiative reaches out to the visually-impaired through a fortnightly braille newspaper across India and 17 other countries.
The Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship programme supports meritorious students across India to pursue higher education. Over 10,000 students have benefited from the programme; among these students about 20% are specially-abled.
Reliance Foundation Jr. NBA is an initiative to build a holistic sports culture among children through basketball. It has engaged with more than 1 million children through the comprehensive school-based youth basketball programme.
The Foundation's Education for All initiative, in partnership with prominent NGOs working in the field of education, has reached out to over 70,000 underprivileged children and positively influenced their lives.
Reliance Foundation was among the first organisations to reach out to the affected people with relief and medical care when disasters struck Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
94,000+
households, across 5,500+ villages, benefitted through Reliance Foundation's initiatives
14,000+
visually challenged people helped to improve their vision through free corneal transplants
447 lakh m3
Rain water harvested stored in water harvesting structures
10,000+
Students benefitted from The Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship program
70,000+
underprivileged children positively influenced through Education for All initiative
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