fulfilling aspirations
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Website: www.reliancefoundation.org
Reliance Corporate Park, Ground Floor Project Office, 5 TTC Industrial Area,
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
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