Kamran Ikram had a strict checklist when establishing a charity partnership for his colleagues at Accenture with an interest in South Asia. He wanted a well-run charity offering a flexible range of high-impact projects in the UK and overseas with opportunities for hands-on employee involvement.
He found it in The British Asian Trust. “It is a bonifide structure through which we can access a range of charities that have been vetted by the Trust giving us the confidence that we can work with them,” says Kamran Ikram. “It’s one-stop shopping. We can work with a specific charity or a number of charities,” he says.
Accenture is currrently supporting Trust charity partner Saath and its Umeed programme providing training and jobs for more than 11,000 disadvantaged young people in India’s slum communities. “We can use our skills to provide hands-on help for students,” says Kamran. “The British Asian Trust offers a robust mechanism providing a range of opportunities for employees to be involved,” he says. “It’s a mutually beneficial partnership.”
Shalini Khemka, Investment Director at LDC (Lloyds Development Capital) and CEO of The London Entrepreneurial Exchange, visited Mumbai Mobile Crèches (MMC) recently where she witnessed the inspiring work of our charity partner.
Over 50,000 children of migrant construction workers live on building sites in Mumbai. MMC runs day care centres providing health and education services on the sites themselves. Since 1972 MMC has reached out to more than 150,000 children who would otherwise be left to wander on the dangerous sites while their parents worked.
Mumbai Mobile Crèches also trains women from migrant communities to become teachers so that they can run centres themselves. MMC aims to be a demonstration model of quality childcare for construction sites across India. Continue reading Corporate partner views Trust at work…
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Mumbai Mobile Creches is the only NGO in Mumbai that focuses a vast, yet almost entirely forgotten population - the children of migrant construction workers.
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Umeed has reached out to over 11,000 young people providing over 77% of them with jobs and taking them out of low skill / income cycles..
Read more about Saath (Umeed)
LRBT has reached out to 16 million patients and has performed 1.7 million surgeries since its inception in 1984.
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