This document summarizes the corporate social responsibility initiatives of HDFC Life, an Indian life insurance company. It discusses several areas of focus for its CSR programs, including financial inclusion, education, livelihood generation, community development, and environmental sustainability. Some specific initiatives highlighted are providing housing and vocational training, supporting education for underprivileged children, partnering with organizations like Teach for India and Akshaya Patra, and encouraging employee volunteerism and donations.

1. Corporate Social Responsibility
Initiatives
By
Aparna Bansal
Archana Singh
Atul Kumar
Pramey Zode

2. Betterment and advancement of society
It is sector agnostic
Works across a range of social interventions
Numerous development initiatives across India

4. Financial
Assistance to
people from
weaker
sections of
the society
Financial
Products :
Credit
savings,
overdraft
facilities
Non Financial
Products:
Credit
counselling
and livelihood
development.
Sustainable Livelihood Initiative

5. Financial Inclusion
The bank believes in
empowering
individuals by making
them self reliant.
They have provided
funding for various
projects which help
people strive towards
economic
independence.

6. Education
The Bank recognises
its responsibility to
spread financial
literacy and supports
projects that aim at
inculcating the same
amongst members of
society.
Educational
Crisis
Scholarship
Support (ECSS)
Friends Union
for Emerging
Lives(FUEL)
Night School
education
Vidya For Every
Child
Light of Life –
Saath Charitable
Trust

7. Changing lives through training
Making youth employable
Unnati in 70 days
Skill based courses for the youth
Vocational training for the youth
Enabling special people towards a better lifestyle
Providing employability based training to students
Educational support for underprivileged children

8. Community initiatives

9. Environmental Sustainability and Go
Green!
Multi-channel
delivery
Paperless banking
Energy efficiency Green infrastructure

11. HDFC Life CSR framework
Educatio
n
Health
Rural
Developmen
t
Environmen
t
Sustainabilit
y
Liveliho
od

12. Uttarakhand Floods

13. June 2013,
devastating floods
struck Uttarakhand.
Partnered with
Habitat for Humanity
India and FICCI
Provided long term
sustainable shelters
to affected families
Rebuilding Uttarakhand: A Flood
Response
Project funded through the contribution made by
the employees & matching amount donated by the
company.
75 transitional shelter to address immediate needs
& 50 permanent houses were to be constructed.
The project was to rehabilitate total of 125
families.
As on 31st March, 2014, 60 transitional shelters
have been constructed & handed over to
beneficiaries.

14. SOS children’s village project
HDFC life believes that
education plays a
significant role in an
individual’s life. It helps
children living on the
margins of the society
to break away from the
cycle of poverty to a
secure future.
The project supports
the education of 300
vulnerable children in
four locations including
Kolkata, Guwahati,
Bhubaneshwar and
Rourkela.
This project also has a
holistic engagement
involving HDFC Life
employees and
customers. The
company also plans to
create awareness about
the cause with the
customers.
The gift of knowledge
and education is the
best we can give to our
children, which will
come back to us in the
form of a better next-
generation.

15. Teach for India
HDFC Life believes in every child’s right to quality education and believes that one of the long term
solutions to eradicate the ‘Education inequality’ is by creating ‘Change Leaders’.
HDFC Life has been partnering with Teach for India, a non-profit organization engaged in supporting
education for underprivileged children since 2010
HDFC sponsored two fellows for the 2010-12 fellowship program, these employees have been
reintegrated in the company and remain active change leaders within and outside the company.
The project provides the employees with the opportunity to have a secure career while following
their dream of giving back to society.

16. Payroll Giving
HDFC Life encourages its employees to contribute a small part of their salary to establish their own
charity account through the Payroll Giving programme.
This initiative has been implemented in partnership with GiveIndia, an organisation dedicated to help
individuals donate to credible NGOs.
This programme helps employees create a strong impact in the lives of the underprivileged through
small, yet effective contributions.
The employees are also able to follow up on the utilization of their contribution.
A number of enrolments since 2008 and till date, has effectively channelized more than INR 72 Lakhs
through GiveIndia across 10 causes- Children, Disabled, Education, Elderly, Employment, Environment,
Health, Women, and Youth.

17. Akshaya Patra
School lunch programs across India
Distributes freshly cooked, healthy meals daily
Funded a vehicle for Akshaya Patra, Hyderabad usable for delivering the midday meals at
different school locations with more efficiency and ensuring the freshness of food.
456 schools, 1.37 children across 11 mandals of Medak district in Andhra Pradesh

18. Swabhimaan Careers
Reaches out to the policyholder’s dependants post settlement of a claim and considers
them for an employment opportunity at HDFC Life based on their calibre and fitment.

19. Caring for environment
Prohibiting on use of paper cups completely
‘Printing on both sides’ as a default on printers
Desktops hibernating after 15 minutes
Setting usage hours for air conditioners
Initiating internal campaigns to save water, power and paper wastages
Environment friendly celebrations and festivities.

20. Tree plantation
Partnered with ‘Plant a Tree Today Foundation’ to plant 1,500 saplings in Mumbai in August 2013.
Regularly monitor the growth of the saplings
HDFC Life aims to plant 3000 saplings in the financial year 2014-15