Reliance Foundation works in rural transformation, education, health, urban renewal, arts and culture, and disaster response in India. It aims to build an inclusive India through various initiatives like supporting small farmers, providing education and healthcare, improving rural livelihoods and urban areas, and responding to natural disasters. The Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Reliance Industries and carries out its work through dedicated teams and partnerships across India.
2. “The Reliance growth story is intricately tied enormous challenges it faces on the social
to India’s social and economic development. developmentfront.”
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
3. “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 preservingtransformative change and build an inclusive India -
itsheritage.”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. Ambani
that 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”
4. THE LAND OF
A BILLION DREAMS
India 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
thelivesofIndia’sunderprivileged,RelianceFoundation Transformation, Education, Health, Urban
is working with communities across various states. RenewalandArts,Culture&Heritage.
5. RURAL
TRANSFORMATION
Reliance 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 practicesandempowercommunities.
interventions through its Bharat-India Jodo (RF-
InstitutionBuilding
BIJ)andInformationServices(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
valuechainthroughinputprovision,technical,post-
PCs serve as interfaces to optimise returns fromharvest and marketing support. The programme
isspreadacross16agro-ecologicalzonesofIndia. theirfarmproduce.
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6. 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
nutritionalintakeofruralhouseholds.
initiatives such as Dharti Farms, Rain Water
Harvesting, Seed Banks, Nurseries, Bio Gas and
Rain water harvesting: The initiative helps
RelianceNutritionGardens.
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 otherenhancing farm land productivity by deploying
usefulstructures.mixedcroppingandenhancesoilfertility.
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7. institutions, extension departments, individualReliance Foundation Information
experts, policy makers, innovative practitioners,Services (RF-IS)
tradersandfinancialinstitutions.
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 conferencingissues and preventive health to rural population,
between two or multiple locations; cableas 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-basedlanguagesinasustainedmanner.
electronic display boards; posters; and makesRF-IS collects information on rural community
announcements through mobile units andneeds and builds value-added content through
fortnightlyvernacularjournals.partnerships with universities, research
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8. EDUCATION
Reliance Foundation uses multi pronged country. RF complements these initiatives with
initiatives to provide access to quality primary its Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate
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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9. 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 seamlesscontinuityofcare.
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
measurestohelpreducetheloadontertiarycare. hygiene and makes affordable sanitary napkins
RF’s dedicated team targets below-poverty-line easilyaccessibletowomeninvillages.
(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
10. technology across core specialties, as well asReliance Foundation Drishti
imaging and diagnostics. The new hospital is being
Reliance Foundation’s Drishti programme is an
builttodeliverworld-classtertiaryhealthcare.
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
calendarinHindi.
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
11. 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
12. Reliance Foundation is re imagining ways to
protect and promote India’s priceless heritage to
not only sustain but also make art and culture
relevanttotheyoungergeneration.
To this end, RF supports legendary artists in many
of their creative endeavours, besides supporting
internationally acclaimed exhibitions for
educationalpurposes.
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ARTS, CULTURE
& HERITAGE
13. 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. newhomesforthehomeless.
Resultantly, RF can quickly mobilize relief and
rehabilitationoperations.
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