Supporting the Society in Emergency | Tech Mahindra Foundation

1. Supporting the Society in Emergency | Tech Mahindra Foundation Tech Mahindra Foundation sensed that the COVID-19 pandemic made the social disparities more evident as people from the vulnerable communities suffer from hunger and have little access to safety gear. Within two weeks of the lockdown in March 2020, we had gauged the enormity of what we could be staring at, and had articulated our goal for COVID Relief with the statement: “To direct the support towards the most vulnerable population segments in the quickest possible time.” This statement has guided us towards taking quick decisions and staying focused during these wickedly unpredictable times. To combat the consequences of the pandemic, we are relentlessly working to direct the support towards the most vulnerable population including Healthcare workers, Security Personnel, Sanitation Workers, Migrant Workers, Farmers, Transgenders Community, Elderly People, Daily Wagers, Persons with Disabilities and more. Just when we thought that the end of the COVID pandemic was on the horizon, the second wave came upon us stronger than ever. In the Second Wave of the Pandemic, focus has shifted to supporting hospitals with critical medical infrastructure, including oxygen cylinders, concentrators,

2. beds, cardiac monitors and other supplies. We ramped up our training programs to upskill healthcare professionals and frontline workers. Our Immediate Relief Work Our COVID Relief Work continues to impact lives through 549 COVID Relief Programs across 17 states in the country, in the following focus areas (as of 10 July 2021): ● 9,05,292 benefitted from Dry Ration Kits which were distributed to support families suffering from the financial crisis. 4,87,641 Cooked Meals were served to migrant workers, daily-wage earners and others. 305,000 people were benefitted from sanitized Community Toilets in slums of Mumbai and Pune through Flush the Virus, a project in association with UNICEF India and Triratna Prerana Mandal (TPM). 61,810 PPE Kits were distributed to the frontline workers to enhance the capacity to respond to the crisis. 55 Hospitals were supported with Medical Equipment and Consumable including ventilators and Supplies to augment the healthcare efforts of the government. 8,34,443 Masks were distributed to control the spread of infection. 1,162 Laptops & Tablets were distributed to help students continue learning and make online classes available to all students. ● ● ● ● ● ●

3. The Foundation acknowledges that the response to this pandemic will not be effective unless it is also equitable and thus, we are working at an exceptional scale and speed to mitigate the risk and impact of this unprecedented crisis. Geographies covered: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi NCR, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. COVID Rehabilitation Initiatives The Foundation anticipated the lasting impact of this unprecedented crisis and hence decided to start long-term sustainable initiatives. The following are the COVID rehabilitation initiatives of TMF:

4. In response to the global pandemic, a course titled Hospital Hygiene Assistants has been started with the Health Sector Skill Council to train youth as part of the SMART Academies for Healthcare. The Foundation is also engaged at training frontline workers like sanitization workers, social workers, and Aanganwadi workers on COVID Swayam Suraksha during the year. We are inviting NGOs to become a part of the COVID Swayam Suraksha front-line training available in Hindi, English, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, and Telugu. Register here. To ensure that learning never stops and bridge the digital divide, TMF has distributed digital tablets, laptops and desktops to youth across our project locations. TMF also focused on the capacity building of government school teachers to identify and evaluate psychological difficulties faced by children and the early signs of abuses and how to raise awareness to keep them safe. Tech Mahindra Foundation is building the capacity of government school teachers in digital literacy and pedagogy and cybersecurity to create happier and safer classrooms and curb the increase in cybercrime and child abuse during the pandemic.

5. TMF also upskilled Nurses through Simulation-based training on Ventilators for critical management of COVID-19 patients with comorbidities. "Mind@Ease" platform launched for Counselling Services, with a focus on Mental Health & Wellbeing, in association with Tech M’s Makers’ Lab. Source: https://techmahindrafoundation.org/covid-relief-program/