Ensuring sanitation for 10, 000 students

As part of the Microsoft’s ‘Giving Campaign’ employees handed over sanitation facilities to 42 schools in Telangana, Haryana and Karnataka on Tuesday.

This also marked the culmination of a six-month long awareness campaign about sanitation and hygiene for 10,746 students in these 42 schools. The campaign was run with help from Charities Aid Foundation.

The employees handed over the sanitation facilities to school authorities, teachers and students at GGHS, Mustaidpura Government School in the presence of Ravi Kumar Deputy District Education Officer, Government of Telangana and Amit Sircar, General Manager, Managing Director, Microsoft Services Global Delivery.

Speaking on the campaign, Amit Sircar said, “Every October, our employees come together to re-energise our community connections.”

Lauding the efforts of Microsoft, Meenakshi Batra, CEO, Charities Aid Foundation India, ‘’The Sanitation for Education project is a perfect example in which Microsoft India has shown the way for other corporate houses to follow by integrating sanitation issues with education of children,

especially girl child and addresses the problem holistically, which emphasises on the construction of toilets, not as an end to the problem but as a means to address the larger issues of education, health, hygiene, dignity and gender equality.”

Over the last five years, the campaign has helped educate 4,48,187 children, enabled 27,359 youth from underprivileged communities to undergo vocational training,

so they can pursue employment opportunities and chase their dreams, provided 2,410 children with disabilities with access to education and aided the provision of nutritious mid-day meals for 9,973 students.