The Godrej Global Volunteering Day is our annual day of community service. In 2017, over 1157 of our team members volunteered their time to improve teaching-learning experience in 56 schools. Our team members conducted engaging activities and reached out to over 10,500 children. Our volunteers held film screenings, conducted interactive games, initiated cleanliness drives, provided career counselling and sports coaching to engage with students in the communities we work in.

Our team members represent a diverse range of skills and perspectives. Through Brighter Giving, our structured skill-based volunteering programme, our team members can offer their time and skills to address specific needs of a non-profit organisation on a project basis. Brighter Giving also serves as a channel through which our team members can connect with and learn more about our sustainability initiatives. The programme has a long-term goal to drive meaningful impact for our non-profit partners and/or their beneficiaries. Volunteers accomplish this by using their professional skills and expertise to develop relevant, implementable, and sustainable solutions for the organisations with which they work. The projects range from mentoring an underprivileged child, to volunteering at a refugee camp, to building a non-profit organisation's marketing plans.

We are committed to building a greener India and have been celebrating World Environment Day on June 5 every year across all our locations around the world. Our team members drive the celebrations and spread awareness about the effects of our actions on the environment. Godrejites organise tree plantation drives around communities of our manufacturing plants, cleanliness drives in collaboration with local panchayat and municipal corporations, and awareness sessions in local schools among other activities. In 2017, over 450 of our team members participated and helped take us one step closer to achieving our sustainability goals.

During the Joy of Giving Week held from October 2 to 8 every year, we organise various volunteering activities. In 2016, our team members organised several food drives to raise funds and awareness about mid-day meals served in government schools for children from underprivileged backgrounds. We organise NGO exhibitions to raise awareness and funds for our non-profit partners, their work and their beneficiaries. We also organise drives to recycle and repurpose used clothes and waste paper. Every year we host NGOs at our head office to exhibit their work, raise awareness and fundraise for their programmes.

As part of our disaster relief efforts, we provide support to natural disasters that hit South Asia. With contributions made by our team members and matching grants from the Godrej group of companies, we provide recovery support and resettlement development. In 2017, we provided support for the Assam flood relief and the Gujarat flood relief efforts. In the past, we have contributed towards the Nepal earthquake relief, and the Chennai flood relief fund.

Our Workplace Giving programme enables our team members to directly donate a specific amount every month to our non-profit partners - Save the Children India, Teach for India, and World Wildlife Fund. The organisations have been selected after thorough research, keeping in mind the vast scope of their efforts towards improving education for underprivileged children, creating access to health facilities in rural areas, and protection of the environment.