Born to Be projects in India

We have partnered with Teach For India to provide children from low-income backgrounds with access to quality education. To further improve the learning outcomes of these children, we support bright individuals committed to becoming full-time teachers at under-resourced schools through the two-year Teach For India Fellowship.

Together with Karunya Trust, we are working to create equitable opportunities for children and youth from the rag-picking community to help them fulfil their ambitions. They are supported through formal education, supplementary nutrition, healthcare and community engagement.

While innumerable young women across India aspire to establish careers in engineering, many have faced long-standing hurdles – including gender inequality and societal pressures. Together with Smile Foundation, we launched the Deutsche Bank Engineering Scholarship and are supporting 525 girls to pursue their engineering degrees.

We joined hands with The Akshaya Patra Foundation in 2014 to serve one nutritious midday meal per student on each school day. In mid-2023, we reached a milestone of providing timely nutrition through over 70 million meals to more than 300,000 children. We continue to fund nutritious meals to children studying in government schools and in-turn assist their education by ensuring they stay in school.

We have joined hands with Rubicon Foundation to support the skill development and placements of youth from Tier 2 and 3 colleges, who are in their final year of Engineering or Computer Science courses. The students also have access to career counselling, mock interviews and trainings in aptitude, soft skills and domain IT skills.

In collaboration with Tata Memorial Hospital, we aid the treatment and recovery of children suffering from cancer. Our partnership provides timely diagnosis, critical treatment and post-treatment therapies to children, whose families would otherwise find it difficult to bear the costly medical expenses. We are also granting educational scholarships to children who are cancer survivors.

We work with CanKids KidsCan to provide holistic care for children with cancer through CanKids Hospital Support Units alongside childhood cancer treatment centres. These projects aid children from low-income families, seeking treatment in hospitals across India, with medical support, accommodation, psycho-emotional care and counselling services. We also support the CanKids CanShalas in Mumbai which are special schools that provide formal education and personalised learning plans for child patients through the course of their treatment.