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Thane-Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400701, India.

Email: contactus@reliancefoundation.org Phone: +91 22 44770000

Fulfilling Aspirations. Transforming India...

“The Reliance growth story is intricately tied enormous challenges it faces on the social

to India’s social and economic development. development front.”

I firmly believe that the purpose of any business

cannot be driven by profit alone. Each one of

Shri Mukesh D. Ambanius has to commit to building a better world. Chairman & Managing Director

India has to find its unique solutions to the Reliance Industries Ltd.

OUR INSPIRATION

“Reliance Foundation is the manifestation of an power of education and pays utmost attention to

audacious dream: to inspire and facilitate the health of its citizens; and an India that celebrates

its values, culture and traditions, while preserving transformative change and build an inclusive India -

its heritage.”an India that empowers its youth to harness their

potential; an India that builds bridges between its

rural hinterland and the urban economy; an India

Smt. Nita M. Ambanithat provides a better quality of life for all in the

Chairperson

Reliance Foundationurban areas; an India that leverages the phenomenal

“LET US BUILD AN INCLUSIVE INDIA”

THE LAND OF A BILLION DREAMSIndia is a nation of a billion dreams, a billion Reliance Foundation directly engages with

aspirations and above all great opportunities. communities through a team of trained

To turn these dreams into reality and help transform professionals in five core areas of Rural

the lives of India’s underprivileged, Reliance Foundation Transformation, Education, Health, Urban

is working with communities across various states. Renewal and Arts, Culture & Heritage.

RURAL TRANSFORMATIONReliance Foundation helps improve livelihood RF-BIJ helps marginal farmers build self-reliant

opportunities by empowering rural communities institutions, follow sustainable agricultural

through organisational and technology-based practices and empower communities.

interventions through its Bharat-India Jodo (RF-Institution Building

BIJ) and Information Services (RF-IS) initiatives.

The team helps create Village Farmers Associations Reliance Foundation BIJ

(VFAs) and Producer Companies (PCs). While the

RF-BIJ is working towards bridging the developmental VFAs are collectives of small and marginal farmers

gap between rural Bharat and urban India by in a village to help transform semi-productive or

supporting small and marginal farmers along the

uncultivated farm lands into productive assets, the value chain through input provision, technical, post-

PCs serve as interfaces to optimise returns from harvest and marketing support. The programme

is spread across 16 agro-ecological zones of India. their farm produce.

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Sustainable Agricultural Practices Reliance Nutrition Gardens (RNGs) are low cost,

organic and scientifically developed kitchen garden RF BIJ helps address food security for rural

models that use a multi-tier cropping system to households. It also helps create sustainable

produce a variety of vegetables. RNGs enhance the livelihoods and protects the environment through

nutritional intake of rural households.initiatives such as Dharti Farms, Rain Water

Harvesting, Seed Banks, Nurseries, Bio Gas and Rain water harvesting: The initiative helps

Reliance Nutrition Gardens.marginal farmers conserve water through various

soil and moisture conservation measures, Dharti farms help de-risk marginal farmers by

including construction of mini-dams and other enhancing farm land productivity by deploying

useful structures.mixed cropping and enhance soil fertility.

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institutions, extension departments, individual Reliance Foundation Information

experts, policy makers, innovative practitioners, Services (RF-IS)

traders and financial institutions. RF IS uses various communication and

Apart from direct interventions, RF-IS provides technological channels to provide information

mobile-based vernacular audio/text advisories;relating to rural development, livelihood security

live phone-in-programmes; audio conferencing issues and preventive health to rural population,

between two or multiple locations; cable as a neutral service provider. The team delivers

TV-based live phone-in-programmes; wireless-timely, context-specific advisories in local

based public address system; SMS-based languages in a sustained manner.

electronic display boards; posters; and makes RF-IS collects information on rural community

announcements through mobile units and needs and builds value-added content through

fortnightly vernacular journals.partnerships with universities, research

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EDUCATIONReliance Foundation uses multi pronged country. RF complements these initiatives with

initiatives to provide access to quality primary i t s Dhi rubha i Ambani Underg raduate

and secondary education to thousands of students Scholarships, including many for differently

through a network of schools across the abled students.

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To alleviate health related challenges arising from cloud-based software. These also have biometric

the lack of preventive and primary care, RF’s recording facilities to identify patients to ensure

Health Outreach Programme reaches out to the seamless continuity of care.

vulnerable sections of society, creates awareness of RF has launched a Menstrual Hygiene Programme

common health problems and offers remedial to address low awareness levels on menstrual

measures to help reduce the load on tertiary care. hygiene and makes affordable sanitary napkins

RF’s dedicated team targets below-poverty-line easily accessible to women in villages.

(BPL) families and goes to the catchment areas to

enrol them for basic and preventive care. RF’s fully-

equipped Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) and Static

Medical Units (SMUs) provide free medical services

and use state-of-the-art technology, including

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HEALTH

technology across core specialties, as well as Reliance Foundation Drishti

imaging and diagnostics. The new hospital is being Reliance Foundation’s Drishti programme is an

built to deliver world-class tertiary health care.initiative to improve the quality of life of the

visually-impaired and has supported thousands of

cornea transplants across India. RF also launched

a registered, national fortnightly Hindi newspaper

in braille and circulates it free of cost to the visually

impaired. The Foundation also publishes a braille

calendar in Hindi.

Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital

& Research Centre

Reliance Foundation is transforming Sir H N

Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre

into a state-of-the-art facility. The 1-million square

feet area hospital will have the latest of clinical

To make India’s rapidly growing urban areas positive changes in some of India’s largest cities.

amenable to higher quality of life for all, including RF is partnering with various municipal bodies to

for those in low-income groups, Reliance undertake development efforts in urban planning,

Foundation is working on initiatives that engineer public spaces, environment and security of citizens.

URBAN RENEWAL

Reliance Foundation is re imagining ways to

protect and promote India’s priceless heritage to

not only sustain but also make art and culture

relevant to the younger generation.

To this end, RF supports legendary artists in many

of their creative endeavours, besides supporting

internationally acclaimed exhibitions for

educational purposes.

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ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE

Reliance Foundation has in built skills, such to make available general and specialised medical

as healthcare and technological expertise, as support. RF’s rehabilitation work involved building

well as the experience of closely working with livelihood opportunities for the affected families,

the communities, to ably reach out to the needy rebuilding educational institutions and constructing

in the unforeseen event of natural disasters. new homes for the homeless.

Resultantly, RF can quickly mobilize relief and

rehabilitation operations.

RF team was among the first to provide relief to

the people affected by disastrous floods in

Uttarakhand in June 2013, by reaching the

unreached areas against all odds. RF team members

were directly engaged in relief work round-the-clock

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DISASTER RESPONSE

RF Farm Research Centre

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