Brillio, a leading digital technology consulting and solutions company, has been awarded the Special Jury Award at the 9th HR Showcase Awards, 2020.
The company secured the NHRD CSR Best Practices Award for their ongoing CSR program – Bringing Smiles. The annual event is a unique and prestigious platform that recognizes the best practices in the field of CSR by academic institutions, corporations, and voluntary organizations that have developed path-breaking initiatives for common good.
Commenting on the award, Abhishek Ranjan, Director and Global Head – Sustainability and Brillio Foundation said, “Brillio’s Bringing Smiles invests in young minds to fuel the imagination and nurture dream by equipping underserved children to design a future with quality STEM education. The award bestowed by NHRD reiterates our commitment to bridging the STEM education gap. We are truly humbled by the recognition and want to thank our teams for their continued efforts towards a better future for children from underserved backgrounds.”
Brillio’s Bringing Smiles’ primary focus is to prepare young people in the 10-year to 16-year age bracket for life in a digital world. The programs are designed to enable children to thrive in the digital economy through e-learning projects, innovation workshops, science experiments, interactive self-learning initiatives, and skill-sharing.
This year over 1000 Brillio employees and their families volunteered more than 4,000 hours. One of the Brillio Digital Education Scholarship Program beneficiaries, Mahesh B, has been one of the toppers in the Karnataka SSLC exam (2020).
Through Bringing Smiles, Udaya Jothi, a teacher at Government Higher Primary School, Devarabisanahalli, Bangalore received training and certification from Microsoft digital literacy program. She has been selected by Doordarshan to take online sessions.
