news years: 2020

To aid our medical heroes, Essar Foundation handed over 250 PPEs to the DEO and Collector’s Office (Rajkot’s Disaster Management Cell). It strengthens our resolve to do more for the Nation’s Covid-19 warriors. We thank Ms Remya Mohan, IAS for acknowledging our humble contribution.

With the help of BDO and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Essar Foundation & EOGEPL distributed packages of raw food materials to over 100 villagers in the small village of Pratappur, West Bengal. A part of the Essar Meal Project Initiative, these packages consisted of rice and vegetable.

To serve others, even our health care heroes need protection. Essar Foundation is committed to providing medical supplies to frontline health care workers fighting against the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Hospitals and healthcare services across the country have been hit with a shortage of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), which has been deemed as essential while fighting […]

As India fights Covid-19, people who protect us need protection. It is an honour to serve the Nation’s paramilitary forces in this hour of need. Essar Foundation donated over 300 masks, sanitisers and gloves for personnel protection of the Central Industrial Security Force, Bhopal – Airport Unit.

One Essar During the unprecedented crisis posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Essar Foundation is living up to Essar’s ethos of ‘Creating Value’. Be it – partnering with local Government bodies or NGOs, fundraising, or providing food and medical supplies, Essar Foundation is doing everything to help communities in combating this crisis. Our Pledge to the […]

Avid Learning is proud to mark the one-month milestone of our robust digital further learning campaign AVID Online with 30 eclectic episodes, featuring 30 speakers from the breadth of the arts. About the Campaign: In April 2020, Avid Learning launched an online further learning campaign on our social media platforms for our followers to engage with a range of varied topics across the breadth […]

Mumbai being one of the major Covid-19 hotspots, hospitals are scrambling for medical supplies to keep their frontliners safe. We salute the nobility of our Covid warriors, and recently supported Mumbai’s Nair Hospital with 600 PPE kits, 1350 N95 face masks and 10,500 3-Ply masks.

The unimaginable has happened! We are living the history that will be told to our future generations for years. Some are calling it a pandemic, and some see it as Nature taking a much-needed breather. What everyone seems to agree on is that we are living in times when mankind is both the problem and […]

Essar Foundation has recently installed a Walk-in Sample Kiosk (WISK) at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai. The kiosk, inspired by similar models used in South Korea, enables healthcare professional to collect a large number of samples from people who show symptoms of COVID-19. The kiosk proves advantageous as fewer personal protective equipment […]

Mumbai, 23 April 2020: In view of the extension of the lockdown in several Indian states, which will prolong the hardships faced by the disadvantaged sections of the society, Essar Foundation, the CSR arm of the $14-billion Essar Group, has decided to increase its ongoing commitment of providing 1.25 million meals to 2 million meals to […]