AppLabs Charitable Trust

AppLabs recognises and strongly supports corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives towards the underprivileged sections of our society. Under the AppLabs Charitable Trust (ACT), the philanthropic wing of AppLabs was started with a special focus on Education and Healthcare.

With the commitment of over 2000 global AppLabsees, since its inception, ACT has made a visible impact towards the social causes it supports. All the initiatives of the Trust are targeted towards the disadvantaged population in all the countries where AppLabs has a significant presence.

ACT was borne out of the following beliefs:

  • Have a responsibility to serve the underprivileged

  • Serving the needy gives unparalleled inner satisfaction

  • Care, Innovation and Passion are the core values which drive all its CSR activities

Each country that AppLabs has presence in, the company has an ACT Chapter. The local chapters decide the programs they would like to implement, and the ACT leadership team plan, mobilize volunteers, develop partnerships with local NGOs and implement the services. The ACT headquarters in Hyderabad act as a facilitator for a majority of the programs.

The objectives of ACT are defined quarterly by a team of employees who form the decision-making committee. Membership in this committee rotates quarterly so that many different people will get an opportunity to lead the initiative.

Currently, ACT has over 300 registered volunteers working on various initiatives.


AppLabs UK Office CSR Activities

Royal Bank of Scotland partners AppLabs on a Community Project – Employees from Royal Bank of Scotland and AppLabs have been working together in a bid to help the local community. Recently, a team of over 20 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and AppLabsees worked together with the Forestry Commission of Scotland, and volunteered their time to build footpaths in Selm Muir forest, Scotland, to help improve accessibility to the woodland site.

This initiative has helped to make Selm Muir Forest more enjoyable and more accessible for local children from Cedarbank and Pinewoods Special Needs Schools, Livingston.

At present there are no formal footpaths in Selm Muir wood, only sections of Forest Road and some informal tracks through the wood. Any paths that do exist are rough, uneven and there are open ditches meaning it’s currently unsuitable for children with physical disabilities to be able to enjoy.


AppLabs US Office CSR Activities

Operation Christmas Stocking – The AppLabs US office initiatives included ‘Operation Christmas Stocking’, wherein the employees extended support to the US troops in the Middle East, by collecting useful items to send to them for Christmas. ‘Operation Christmas Stocking’ has been shipping donated items to troops in the Middle East for the last few years.

Food Bank – The AppLabs Lindon office employees also regularly donate gifts for families that are unable to afford them, as well collect canned food from the employees to help fill up the local food bank.

‘Sub for Santa’ – The Lindon office employees also regularly play ‘Santa’ for poor families with children that live in their local areas, who are unable to provide their children with gifts due to hardship.


AppLabs India Office CSR Activities

Education:

Education has been a major area of activity in CSR for AppLabs. In primary education, the company works with four schools in Hyderabad, India – one government primary school, the GPS Ambedkar School and 3 privately run schools under ‘Sharada Vidya Niketan’, which are situated in the high tech city area and in the outskirts of Hyderabad.

ACT has implemented many welfare programs at the GPS Ambedkar School which include:

  • Donating uniforms, footwear, text books and other stationary items to the school children
  • Distributing fruits, sweets, fire crackers and organizing games for the children on festive holidays such as ‘Diwali’ (Festival of Lights) and on special occasions like the Indian Independence day

The GPS Ambedkar School has a student population of 130 boys and girls, studying from Class 1 to Class 5.

Sharada Vidya Niketan runs 3 schools in the outskirts of Hyderabad for over 200 students, most of them orphans and aged between 3 and 11. ACT works closely with Sharada Vidya Niketan and has:

  • Donated text books, stationary items, clothes and essential foodstuffs like rice, cooking oil, etc.

  • ACT members have also volunteered to teach the students Math, Science and English

ACT has also collaborated with the MV Foundation, an NGO based in Hyderabad and run by Magsaysay award winner Shantha Sinha, to teach spoken English at Government schools in Hyderabad

The ACT team regularly visits the Radha Krishna Orphanage, which houses more than 180 children aged between 4 and 12. In addition to interacting with the children, the volunteers regularly screen movies for their entertainment, which include ‘The Lion King’, 'Baby’s Day Out', 'Spiderman', amongst others.


Healthcare:

Under Health initiatives, AppLabs works closely with Nirmal Hriday, an NGO run by the Mother Teresa Charitable Trust which supports 17 old age homes in Andhra Pradesh and 14 in Orissa, and provides shelter to destitute patients suffering from tuberculosis and diabetes, as well as HIV positive patients. AppLabs makes quarterly donations of life saving medicines to the organization.

Other initiatives include organizing quarterly Blood Donation camps organized in association with the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust in Hyderabad. Over 300 employees support the cause at every camp.

ACT conducted its fifth Blood Donation Camp on April 18th, 2008. We saw participation from employees of all the three facilities in Hyderabad, as the Administration team made the necessary transportation arrangements. To motivate AppLabsees, ACT had conducted email and poster campaigns.

Many employees had donated for the third time in a row which showed their concern to the needy. All the donors have been given a ‘Donor Card’ from CCT with which the donor can obtain one unit of blood without replacement whenever needed over a period of one year.

Donation of blood can be termed heroic as it would serve the purpose of protecting an ailing person, a fellow being, or an accident victim or those who want to survive, as well as blood banks to control the quality and the declining stocks.

AppLabs is very proud to be associated with this noble cause.

The healthcare initiatives of ACT include:

  • Periodic donations of medicines to ‘Little Sisters of the Poor-Home for the Aged’. In March 2008, the ACT team once again visited this home and distributed toiletries and food items.

    By participating in this initiative ACT has been able to extend support and quality of life of the poor senior citizens.

  • Quarterly donation of old clothes to the ‘Aleti Home’ for the mentally challenged, which houses over 40 inmates, as well as to the patients in the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad.

  • Financial contribution to support the brain tumor operation of an 11 year old boy, Kiran Kumar at the Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad.

  • Donating super speciality beds to Andhra Mahila Sabha an organization, which provides medical assistance to the poor and free education to mentally challenged boys and girls.

AppLabs also participated as one of the main sponsors in the ‘Wockathon 2007’, a marathon walk organized by Wockhardt Group, a premier healthcare group in India, to celebrate ‘World’s Heart Day’ and to spread the message of ‘healthy hearts’.

The ACT team also regularly visits Rakshana Deepam, a home for HIV patients situated outside the main city of Hyderabad, wherein they interact and spend some quality time with the inmates. Recently, the volunteers donated clothes (men, women and children), shoes and toys for the patients.


Social Causes:

ACT regularly organizes Voluntary Donation Camps called ‘SAMARPAN’ (which in Hindi means ‘committing to a cause’), which provides the perfect platform for AppLabsees to demonstrate their compassionate nature for making generous donations of clothes, footwear, books, foodstuffs, household and personal care items for the poor and the needy. The proceeds are further distributed in all the schools and homes adopted by ACT, as well as in the slum areas in and around Hyderabad. Due to the overwhelming response and support for this initiative, the AppLabs Voluntary Donation camps have become yet another success story in their CSR initiatives.

ACT has also collaborated with Family Services, a voluntary organization based out of Bangalore that seeks to help the underprivileged and runs multiple projects and schools for the physically and mentally challenged children.

The organization has also been able to focus on some of the concerns of the corporate sector management. These concerns range from the need for de-stressing materials and activities, input that would help people bond, the need for a family like atmosphere, inter personal relationships etc. Internationally, Family services has been able to successfully create products (VCD’s, Audio CD’s for adults and children, Story books, Desktop calendar 'Mottos For Success’) and print materials that could help fulfil some of these needs.

AppLabs and its employees have extended support to the organization’s multiple causes by regularly buying their products. The money raised from this activity will be used to support various projects this NGO is currently undertaking at various parts of the country, there by helping millions of people who are beneficiaries of their noble initiatives.

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