Lumax Industries - CSR Initiatives

The Lumax Charitable Foundation, the CSR wing of Lumax, has been facilitating social initiatives over the years focusing on Health, Education, Girl child empowerment, and life enrichment programmes. The Vision of the Foundation focusses on itsendeavour to transform lives of children, youth and the elderly to have a better future and eternal hope.

The mission translates to - Provide education, life skills and health in communities around our plant locations for a better and healthy life. Some of the major highlights over the years are:

• Integrating Girl Child to schools - over 1300 girls in 7 years
• Conducted Cataract surgeries providing vision to 600 Patients number in 2 years
• Transforming youth through Career Counselling - 2000
• Working towards a ‘Cancer MuktDilli’ jointly with The Indian Cancer Society in NCR

At a fundamental level, Lumax believes it is important to provide education to ensure that people have the baseline skills – literacy, numeracy - to survive in the world. Education also gives them the ability to communicate, complete tasks and work along with others. It is a powerful tool that empower individuals who in turn build better communities.

Lumax Charitable Foundation has been working with private schools in Gurgaon catering to the needs of the low-income groups and communities. The foundation has envisioned to upgrade and improve the quality of Education and Infrastructure at schools so as to provide holistic education. Infrastructure support through constructing classrooms, providing DG sets for uninterrupted power supply, water sanitation facilities, providing Smart classes & e-learning opportunities, giving science education a thrust through setting-up Science labs and Computer labs.

In order to further strengthen the education programmes, the foundation has undertaken capacity building for the teachers on teaching methodologies, providing learning aids, school starter kits, material for co-scholastic activities, exposure /excursion trips, facilitating the educational requirements of the children in these schools is an integral part of the foundations scope

In the area of health, the foundation has several programmes namely, Cataract surgeries, addressing Juvenile Diabetes, health check-up at schools.

In continuation with its endeavour to provide good health to the underprivileged, vision and eyesight was the direct extension of its business, therefore the foundation decided to partner with ICare to help improve the vision of the underprivileged in rural areas who are affected by Cataract. Further, the foundation organises Health check-up for the children in schools where the foundation is also engaged to create awareness and support underprivileged children with medical support to address their needs on Juvenile Diabetes. Meanwhile, the foundation, through Akshaypatra also provides free nutritious mid-day meals to various children in government schools.