Corporate Social Responsibility
Community involvement is important to us. It allows us to bringpositive, measurable change and to support a better shared future.
Community work at Amadeus Labs in Bangalore focuses primarily on life skills development, quality education, focused intervention for girl child education, skilling and provision of livelihood opportunities for people with disabilities and all genders. In the years 2020-22, we have heartily extended our support towards community restoration during Covid-19 pandemic. These humanitarian responses have supported members across all age groups, and even government officials to keep their Covid response up to the mark.
How we’re putting our sustainability commitments into practice
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Environment and Sustainability
Amadeus, at its India office, has been working hard to reduce energy consumption through its initiatives such as Switch Off Fridays, Bring Your Own Mug, reducing waste bin cover consumptions by reducing the usage of individual bins for each table, etc. These ongoing initiatives have led to a decrease in power and water consumption by 11.14% and 62% respectively. Due to the reduction in paper and fuel consumption, 21kg of paper was saved in last 1 year, and CO2 emission was reduced annually by 68.58 tons. During the pandemic, while the offices were operational in limited capacities, water consumption, as compared to 2020, was reduced by 62%. Along with this, the social responsibility team has engaged over 400 volunteers across 8 initiatives within the global theme of Green Is The New Blue, in order to inculcate awareness about our environment, in 2021.
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Social
Humanitarian response is our key focus area, especially during the pandemic, and hence, 1500 ASHA workers, 1444 school students, 1000 frontline workers, 25 police personnel, and 1300 other individuals and students were supported with ration, PPE kits, laptops, and other necessities during economic and health crisis caused by the pandemic. 4 HFNC, and 2 dialysis machines were also provided to hospitals, 20lakh INR was donated to PM Cares.
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Governance
India CSR at Amadeus Labs is governed by a board that is supported by a 3 member team. This board approves the financial year projects, and oversees the utilization of the allocated CSR funds in order to be remain compliant to the GoI on CSR spend.
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Volunteering
Employees who volunteer, are the true representatives of the culture and business at Amadeus. Volunteering, hence is our important pillar to achieving the overall CSR impact in India. In 2021, through activities focusing on environment, empowering communities and rebuilding travel, we have virtually engaged 50% of our employees via various events. Volunteers pledged to save the Amazon Forest by getting saplings planted after them, learnt to sing in sign language to show inclusivity towards hearing impaired, got their home audited to know the best way to reduce wastage, drafted educards on World Heritage Sites for children to virtually travel around the world, crafted lanterns and kitchen garden with plastic containers, and took cyber safety session for 45 teachers and 50 children to safeguard them from online bullying and fraud in the digital era of education.
Undertaking the Zero Waste challenge since 2015
1 hour Switch Off Friday saving.
Common area dustbins.
Food waste reduction and fresh food recycling, saving over 40 kg of fresh food everyday.
Replacement of paper cups with individual ceramic mugs, saving over 27 trees.
Replaced C-fold tissue papers with hand dryers, saving over 71 trees.
Amadeus Covid response
Our support to the pandemic was note worthy with Amadeus employees and the organization working together to support the medical fraternity, including purchasing HFNC machines, dialysis machines, hygiene kits to laptops for students. We also participated in the Solidarity mission run by the Indo French chamber for the purchase of oxygen concentrators.
Via "You and Yours" and "TideThru", over 1000 employees have benefited using the insurance policy, Covid reimbursement claimes, stress management webinars, vaccination, financial assistance, doctors on call, and leadership narrative programs.
Initiatives
This is an education project that has developed an online portal (free of cost to access) focused on preparing students from underprivileged socio-economic background for the GATE examination. Objective of the project is to linking existing NPTEL content to GATE syllabus, and providing video solutions, practice tests and online assistance. This project has impacted over 150000 students since October 2021, and have been positively impacted by this portal all over the country.
An initiative by Shikshana Foundation, this is an education project for govt school children belonging to underprivileged sections of urban Bangalore. Objective of the project is to engage students from 4th to 7th grade in paper-based learning module at their home during Covid lockdown, retaining and enhancing their foundational capacity in course subjects, introduce digital education via Shikshanapedia for select students. This project has impacted 9500 students in FY 2021-22.
An initiative by Food For Thought, this is an educational project for rural children to re-build school building and toilet blocks. Objective of the project is to provide appropriate books for school libraries as suggested by Shikshana Foundation, teach and train the librarian to manage the school libraries and inculcate reading habit among children. This project has impacted 8417 students in FY 2021-22 by providing 25000 books at 100 schools in semi-urban Bangalore.
An initiative by Udayan Care, this is a 5 year long project focusing specifically on girl students who receive financial support and mentoring from Amadeus to build their career. Objective of this project is to provide space for female students to learn and grow in their choice of educational courses, provide financial assistance for the skill-based training for these girls, and provide mentoring support to the girls. This project is impacting 20 girls who are sponsored for their skills training and are provided mentoring support that will help them in becoming skilled to attain livelihood in future.
This is an education project that has developed an online portal (free of cost to access) focused on preparing students from underprivileged socio-economic background for the GATE examination. Objective of the project is to linking existing NPTEL content to GATE syllabus, and providing video solutions, practice tests and online assistance. This project has impacted over 150000 students since October 2021, and have been positively impacted by this portal all over the country.
This is a Livelihood project for people with disabilities, women and transgenders. Objective of the project to provide vocational training to people with disabilities of all gender from smaller NGOs, build their long terms skill set and capacity, and helping them come into the open market to sell their product. This project trained 112 beneficiaries in FY 2021-22.
Volunteering 2021‑2022
Amadeus committed to donating trees to be planted by Saving the Amazon.
22 volunteers participated in the 90 min session in making a DIY kitchen garden with the help of plastic container.
More than 150 participants participated and learnt about the importance of snakes in this ecosystem, and how they are more a friend, than a scary enemy.
Session on creating best out of waste, i.e. making lanterns for Diwali from plastic bottles – 35 volunteers participated with their children. This was also a part of the Amadeus Global Volunteering Week.
To create awareness about the benefits of sustainable lifestyle for the environment. These sessions encouraged volunteers to take a survey of their daily consumptions, food, travel and resource management habits, and helped them calculate their carbon. Ecological and plastic footprint. These sessions were attended by 168 volunteers.
Volunteers performed virtually and entertained the elderly - 222 volunteers participated in the session. Please see if we can highlight this session.
Session on learning the Indian Sign Language and singing a song showing the lyrics in the sign language - 34 volunteers participated.
Creating Educards On UNESCO World Heritage Sites for children at shelter homes - 55 volunteers participated. This was a part of Amadeus Global Volunteering Week.
Employee donation portal for supporting various causes that have suffered due to Covid in this year. This portal was open for a month, also in-line with the season of festivals in India. Oct 4 - Nov 4. This was a part of Amadeus Global Volunteering Week.
One of a kind Yammer campaign to showcase the little yet profound acts of kindness by the employees. Employees were encouraged to showcase their acts of kindness by posting a story or a photo on Yammer campaign.