NEW DELHI (India CSR): Project Prabhat is a community development initiative under CSR of Hindustan Unilever Limited, which aims at creating sustainable and inclusive communities around the Company’s sites.
By doing so, it is contributing toward a fairer and more socially and environmentally inclusive world, while using Company’s scale for good.
Through Prabhat’s pillars of Economic Empowerment, Environmental Sustainability and Health & Nutrition, the company has reached out to more than seven million people across 21 states and two Union territories since its inception in 2013.
Under Economic Empowerment, women and youth are provided skill and entrepreneurship training making them future-ready for jobs/business.
Prabhat Livelihood Centres in 17 locations have provided skill development to over 95,000 women and adolescents in the farm and non-farm sector and successfully generated employment for more than 50,000 people, 70% of which are women.
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Focusing on the health and wellbeing of women, Prabhat Poshan Saathi Programme has sensitised more than four lakh women on nutrition.
Using the life cycle approach, a cadre of outreach workers are trained to support rural women in their holistic nutrition journey.
To provide access to affordable and quality health care, Prabhat Telemedicine Centres and Prabhat Swasthya Seva have been started in 10 locations.
To drive a positive impact on the environment, It runs specific interventions on water conservation, waste management and afforestation in the communities. Through Prabhat, your Company prevented over 65,000 kgs of waste from reaching landfills.
During the pandemic, more than 2.5 million individuals were provided with humanitarian relief such as grocery and hygiene kits.
These kits used 3 lakhs of environment-friendly cloth bags made by Prabhat Livelihood Centre beneficiaries, helping them with additional income.
Along with this, more than 800 wall paintings related to the Covid-19 pandemic were painted in the rural hinterland to spread awareness amongst the community.
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