Bharti Foundation was set up in the year 2000 as the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises. The Foundation implements and supports programs primarily in education as well as sanitation for the underprivileged section of the society. Through its flagship initiative the ‘Satya Bharti School Program’, the Foundation provides free quality education across primary, elementary as well as secondary level education to thousands of underprivileged children, with a special focus on the girl child. The Foundation also works in partnership with respective state governments towards strengthening the quality of over-all schooling experience for students in government schools through the ‘Satya Bharti Quality Support Program’. Our sanitation initiative, ‘Satya Bharti Abhiyan’, was launched in 2014 in rural district of Ludhiana, Punjab and has enabled the district to attain Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.
Through these programs we are contributing to some extent to the Sustainable Goals such as Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation.
* The above data includes all education programs and partner projects and the impact created since inception
Satya Bharti School Students- Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu
Satya Bharti School Students won laurels in various international and national level competitions. Our students have excelled in both scholastic and co-scholastic activities, which are detailed below.
1. Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary School, Rauni (Ludhiana) won the internationally acclaimed ‘School Enterprise Challenge Award’ for the second consecutive year for promoting entrepreneurship.
Sr. Secondary School Rauni,
Punjab- India
Country Prize Winner 2018
2. Students gave a stellar performance 2. at ‘Khula Aasmaan’ - a national level painting competition by India Art Foundation, winning two gold, one bronze and 30 honorable mentions and consolations).
3. 11 Satya Bharti Schools featured among the 'Top 100' of which Satya Bharti School Bhomsagar (Jodhpur) featured in the 'Top 20' at the ‘Design for Change’ contest that acknowledges meaningful community campaigns for bringing change.
364 students (205 girls and 159 boys) from all five Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary Schools, located in rural heartlands of Punjab appeared for the Class X CBSE Board Examinations
199 students (112 girls and 87 boys) from all five Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary Schools in Punjab appeared for the Class XII CBSE Board Examinations
Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards 2019- Bronze for student of Satya Elementary School, Khanpur
A role model for girl students in her school
Jasmeet Kaur of class V, Satya Bharti School Pamal, Ludhiana West, Punjab belongs to Baddowal Village, cantonment area of Indian Tibetan Border Police, about 13 Km from Ludhiana. Her father, a truck driver is the only bread earner in the family of seven.
Once a shy girl, Jasmeet soon started enjoying coming to school and became very confident. Seeing her interest in sports, her teacher Sandeep Kaur, a state level Kho-Kho player, motivated her to start participating in school level race and Kho-Kho.
When she represented her school in Cluster level sports, it was a proud moment for her. It happened to be her first victory in life. She was honored by the Sarpanch, Cluster Co-ordinator and Head Teachers of all the Satya Bharti Schools in the Cluster.
Seeing her commitment, Jasmeet was given the opportunity to play at the State level. Her family initially resisted but, after reassurance from her teacher, agreed to send her to Amritsar. Jasmeet’s team secured 3rd position at the State Level.
Jasmeet being honored by the School Leaders and Community
Data as of 31st March, 2019 From April 2019 onwards partnership schools are being handed over and a few schools are being merged for optimizing resources
Data as of 31st March, 2019
** Data includes indirect
support to 30 Army Goodwill
schools in J&K and 2 schools
in Goa
Each school decides the pace and trajectory depending on the School leader’s vision for bringing about a sustainable change. The program is implemented across India in 14 states, namely, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Karnataka.
Government schools partnered under this program, its teachers and students won laurels in various district, state, national and international level competitions.
5. Girls held 50% of the leadership roles in the government schools during 2018-19.
6. Dedicated training programs were conducted to impart leadership skills to the school principals and senior teachers across 372 schools in 10 states, with 438 participants attending the program.
The Program created a meaningful impact on students and teachers of non-partnered government schools as well, through indirect interventions. Some of the highlights were:
Launched in August 2014, the Satya Bharti Abhiyan, improves sanitation conditions in large geographic areas by providing access to toilets for households. Aligning to the government’s vision, the program helps these areas to become Open Defecation Free (ODF). Having commenced operations from rural district of Ludhiana, the program spread its footprint to urban areas of Ludhiana (since October 2016) and to rural Amritsar (since September 2017). In Amritsar, Satya Bharti Abhiyan is being implemented in collaboration with Department of Water Supply and Sanitation (DWSS), Govt of Punjab. The Foundation and DWSS are working together to provide financial assistance to the beneficiaries for building toilets.
The Information, Education and Communication (IEC) to foster behavior change, for promotion of usage and maintenance of toilets is implemented through the government agencies and re-enforced through IEC by outsourced partners. Process orientation, transparency and stakeholder empowerment are the pillars of implementation.
Satya Bharti Abhiyan has provided separate girls' toilets in 14 government schools in Ludhiana
as of March 31, 2019 (cumulative data since inception)
1. Upon request from Ludhiana Police Commissionerate, Bharti Foundation constructed 37 separate toilets for over 55,000 lady staffers and visitors annually. The toilets constructed in brick and mortar, are customized to provide specific amenities for women, like incinerator for disposal of sanitary napkins, privacy protection walls, facilities like western toilet seat, mirror, wash basin soap tray, and towel holder.
2. The Program completed its Urban Ludhiana phase during the year that began in 2014 with over 700 individual household toilets handedover in 11 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in Ludhiana district till date.
an elderly resident of village Bagga Khurd (rural Ludhiana), Making personal hygiene and cleanliness a norm she had to patiently control her bowel movement till her turn came to go out for open defecation. She also had to carry her disabled grandson for open defecation. The Program helped her built a toilet in her house, making her life convenient.
“We hadn’t expected that the work will take place so fast. Within a month we were handed over our own toilet. And ever since we have got the toilet, we have been using it. It not only helped me in this old age but also helped my mentally challenged grandson remain clean. Over a period of time, my grandson has also learnt to use the toilet”.
- Baljit Kaur
India needs a vibrant higher education system to address the challenges it faces and to exploit the opportunities offered by its demographic dividend. The higher education partnerships and initiatives undertaken by Bharti Enterprises are designed to fulfil this need and meet the education paradigms of the 21st century.
The Bharti School of Telecommunication, Technology and Management has been set up in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi to develop telecom leaders, through excellence in education and research. A number of steps have been taken by the school to foster research and excellence in learning.
The Bharti Centre for Communication has been set up in association with the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai to nurture knowledge in telecommunication and allied systems.The Centre hosted around 20 research students and six eminent speakers from across the world and has published over 20 papers in international conferences and journals.
Bharti Institute of Public Policy a partnership between Indian School of Business, Mohali and Bharti Enterprises with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (USA).
Business, Mohali and Bharti Enterprises with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (USA)
http://www.isb.edu/bharti-institute-ofpublic- policy
The Bharti Institute of Public Policy, an independent think-tank, focusses on education and research in the domain of public policy and engages with policy makers by providing them with critical, evidence-based analyses of public policy rooted in data. The institute works on policy challenges across diverse domains, the main ones being Agriculture and Food, Environment, Education, Financial Policy, Governance and Digital identity. The Institute secured a three year USD 2 million grant in October 2018 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build and develop a portal for various spatial and temporal data visualisations to improve the quality of India’s data-journalism.
Bharti Foundation and Newcastle University have signed a MoU to collaborate on knowledge-sharing, academic research and program opportunities. In 2018, four students from Newcastle University completed their research assignment, ‘The Understanding and Effectiveness of the Satya Bharti Lesson Plan’, under the Satya Bharti School Program in Punjab. Findings of their research will add value to Foundation’s programs.
Leadership team of Bharti Foundation with students and faculty of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, IIT Delhi at Bharti Merit Awards Ceremony
University of Cambridge, UK
This partnership aims to extend knowledge of increasing corn crop productivity to farmers. The three-year research program is a partnership with University of Cambridge, FieldFresh Foods Private Limited, and Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). The University signed an MOU with Bharti Foundation in September, 2016.
A scholarship program that offers an opportunity to students of exceptional intelligence and caliber to study at the University of Cambridge. Thus far, 15 students have received the scholarship.
The Satya Bharti University is deftly on the path of being established as an institution of global excellence in research and learning.
The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM) supports the idea of ‘Run for a cause’, giving the runners the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution through their marathon run. The platform brings together corporates, individuals, employees and students of schools and colleges giving them the opportunity to have an understanding about Bharti Foundation’s School Education Programs.
Airtel employees participated in ADHM 2018
The Young Leader Program is a two-week initiative (part of corporate induction to engage new team members of Bharti Airtel as volunteers to support various initiatives of Bharti Foundation.
An employee payroll-giving initiative, ACT by Bharti Foundation, aims to involve employees of Bharti Group Companies (Bharti Airtel Limited, Bharti Airtel Services Limited and Telesonic Networks Limited) in participating socio-economic activities of the Foundation.
Bharti Foundation's kiosk at Airtel Delhi Half Merathon 2018 at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
We encourage the use of technological support for initiatives related to education and health. We believe that aligning our CSR initiatives with our core business is the best way to drive change. As a corporate citizen working with communities we take a step forward during natural disasters or national emergencies whenever required. Some examples of our initiatives during the year under review were:
ICT Day
Airtel Zambia held a ‘Girls in ICT Day’ by giving away material support as well as holding talks with 100 girls from rural schools on ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Airtel Zambia also donated assorted educational books to the newly built Kaunda Square Secondary School library. Airtel Kenya, in partnership with Computers for Schools Kenya and the County government of Kisumu, launched ‘Free Internet for Schools Programme’ in Kisumu. The company partnered with Junior Achievement (JA) Kenya to launch a Students Empowerment Program, where they hosted girls from Kariobangi North Secondary School for a day of learning during the 2018 Junior Achievement Job Shadow Program.
Coderbus project
Airtel Madagascar, partnered with the NGO Habaka/STEM4Good to provide free digital education to children through a project dubbed ‘Coderdojo Madagascar’. Coderbus is a connected bus with volunteer mentors who are employees from Airtel and the NGO, who provide free digital lessons to young people all over the country. Airtel provided laptops with connectivity to all the students at Coderbus. Since its inception, more than 3000 young people, with 60% of the total being girls, have been trained. These children are now able to code and create their own digital applications, games and websites.
Young people have been trained since inception of the program
Transforming primary education
Airtel Malawi supports the ‘Unlocking Talent’ programme by zero rating access to the ‘unlocking talent’ website for all Airtel subscribers and by providing free data connectivity, currently for 110 tablets, catering for 90,000 standard 1 and 2 learners from 14 schools, with a plan to scale up to 310 tablets for over 225,000 learners from 22 schools by the year 2023. The project focuses on marginalised groups across all districts in Malawi, learn maths and literacy through apps installed on tablets, in
Learners expected to be benefited by 2023
Awareness campaigns
The Wazazi Nipendeni SMS Service initiative, is a Public Private Partnership model, led by the Tanzania Ministry of Health (MoHCDGEC) that sends (free) informative and carefully timed, government approved, health information and reminders to Tanzanians. For example, visits to clinics, maternal health and early childcare messages nationwide were some of the topics that were covered during the year. Airtel supports the technical set up of the service, zero rates the text messaging and USSD communication. The program engages 18 health organizations that continue to implement the service nationwide. To date, Airtel has sent and received 34,756,635 messages to a cumulative 510,123 Airtel subscribers and zero rates the government e-Gov USSD sessions for self-registration by end-users. This has resulted in more than 4,000 registrations by on-the-ground healthcare workers.
Cumulative informative messages sent
Airtel Zambia handed over T-shirts, calendars and caps during the World Autism walk, meant to raise funds for children with autism in Zambia.
Medical treatment
In Nigeria, Airtel partnered with the
St.Cyril Cancer Treatment Foundation to
offer better care and support to cancer
patients. Airtel donated chemotherapy
infusion chairs, medical waiting room
chairs, chemotherapy infusion pumps
with drip stand, flat screen monitors and
nursing/medical consumables to the
Foundation. Airtel Tanzania supported
clinic testing and treatment for mouth
and eye for its partners and staff, at the
Airtel Headquarters in Dar es Salaam.
Malawi Blood Transfusion Service
(MBTS) collected blood from donors
during a blood donation exercise
conducted by Bwaila Media Club
in partnership with Airtel Malawi in
Lilongwe. In Seychelles, The Disease
Surveillance and Response Unit (DSRU)
signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with Airtel Seychelles to improve
the efficiency of surveillance and
response in the country where Airtel
provided MiFi devices with monthly data
of 10 GB each to be used by the unit for
monitoring.
Around 10 schools were identified by the Ministry of Education and ‘classified’ as the vulnerable schools required to be cleaned and enhance their hygiene standards, with a potential impact for more than 8,000 pupils (combined) to have their schools reopened. The schools cleaned their environments and pledged to keep them clean to keep away diseases, like cholera, in the future. Following the heavy rains and floods that left many people destitute in some parts of the country, Airtel Malawi made a donation to the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA) to help the affected people.
Potential students across 10 schools impacted
Skill development and learning
VSOMO (A Mobile-learning programme sponsored by Airtel Tanzania) carried out an orientation program with youth from 7 different regions (Arusha, Morogoro, Mwanza, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam and Coast region) in preparation for practical sessions after successfully completing the VETA (Vocational Educational and Training Authority) e-learning programme. Airtel Tanzania also partnered with Dar Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi) to impart computer basic skills and technology to Dar es Salaam entrepreneurs, so as to expand their businesses through digital platform.
In partnership with Economic Liberation Association (ELA) Airtel Zambia trained over 60 youth in Chawama on issues Related to financial literacy and Mobile Money banking. Airtel Tanzania organized a fun run in which Airtel employees, stakeholders, and the general public bought participation tickets and thereby contributed towards the support of youth aged 18 to 24 years, who will qualify to take vocational education online training through VSOMO App.
Providing better living standards
The staff of Airtel Rwanda joined residents of Masaka Sector in Kicukiro District to speed up the completion of the Abaraya Model Village, enabling more than 70% households to live in better viable settlements.
“Our initiatives are determined by local priorities and driven by the local teams. Our objective is to lend a hand where we can, to the communities across all the 14 countries that we operate in.”
Raghunath Mandava
-CEO (Africa)
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