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Essar Foundation’s mission is to empower students by bringing quality and experiential education to remote rural areas in India. With learning being the primary objective, Essar Power Mahan invited tenth-grade students of Saraswasti Shishu Mandir school, Nagwa, Madhya Pradesh to observe its plant operations. Students got the opportunity to witness the plant functioning from workflow […]

With climate change and environment conservation the primary concern world over, it is critical that each one of us aims at reducing our carbon footprint. Essar recently encouraged the young minds at Nav Jagruti Vidhya Vihar School to don their thinking caps, and come up with innovative and effective clean energy solutions. Essar Bulk Terminal […]

As the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to reflect what year 2019 was all about for Essar Foundation and the communities it served. With a dominant focus on diversity and inclusion, we launched many initiatives that also extended health, environment, education and livelihood support to local communities in remote areas. Watch […]

Essar Bulk Terminals Limited (Hazira), with help of STEM Learning Pvt Ltd, has set up a Science Lab at Hazira village to support the local community school. The lab will help promote experiential learning that supplements textbooks. With 75 different types of modules, the aim of the lab is to make learning more experiment-based and […]

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly Merry Christmas! Essar Foundation dedicates this Christmas to the underprivileged girl children of Asha Sadan Orphanage (Mumbai). Through the ‘Hope and Health’, Essar’s flagship initiative for women’s holistic development, Essarites raised donations and sponsorships to buy necessities that would improve the health […]

Two-thirds of Gujarat’s Dang district live below the poverty line, and nearly 95% of the inhabitants are tribals. Dang experiences extreme climatic conditions characterised by hot daytime temperature and chilly nights. To help the Dangs see through the harsh winters, Essarites of Essar Power Hazira conducted a winter donation drive as part of the ‘Sattar […]

Rural India’s adolescent girls have the potential of being young change makers, who can help disadvantaged sections of our society break the shackles of poverty, inequality and gender discrimination. Under Essar Foundation’s ‘Hope and Health’ initiative, we aim to help these girls achieve their potential and contribute to the nation’s development. In a series of […]

Most transgender people all over the world are excluded from the mainstream economy. Understanding the dire need for trans inclusion in India Inc., Essar has been consistently striving for trans people’s right to dignified employment. On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we reminisce the small yet strong initiatives launched by Essar Foundation towards LGBTQ+ sensitisation, inclusiveness […]

For the world, specially-abled kids are differently gifted. For Essar Power MP’s ‘UMANG Ladies Club’, they are definitely gifted. A sports day was organised by the ladies of the Club at Essar Township for children with special needs of Navprabha Samiti. Over 40 specially-abled children indulged actively in sporting events such as flat races keeping […]

For young adolescent girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in India, access to quality education remains an unattainable dream. Lack of menstrual hygiene awareness and basic hygiene facilities are some of the reasons for school dropouts amongst adolescent girls.This Children’s Day, Essar celebrates the girl child for a brighter tomorrow. Watch the video as Mr Kaustubh Sonalkar, […]