United Way of Chennai – an ALERT Being Organization
United Way of Chennai, a non-profit organization focuses on working towards addressing the issues pertaining to education, health, livelihood environment with a focus on social inclusion. Through its initiative, ‘The Covid Express’, it supported 118 individuals along with their families during their most distressed moments after losing their sole breadwinners to COVID 19. The Covid […]
From Rolling Beedis to Weaving Eco-Friendly Products using Banana Fibre
United Way of Chennai, a non-profit organization focuses on working towards addressing the issues pertaining to livelihood, environment, education, health, and much more. To enhance the livelihood of women in Tirunelveli, we partnered with 360ONE and provided basket weaving training using banana fibre thereby enabling them to set up a self-sufficient enterprise through their CSR […]
Bridgestone India’s Mobility Social Impact Award 2023
United Way of Chennai, a non-profit organization focuses on working towards addressing the issues pertaining to education, health, livelihood environment with a focus on social inclusion. Through Project Nalam, we partnered with Chola MS to support the Nellai Cancer Care Center in Tirunelveli with a fully equipped ambulance through their CSR initiative. This initiative by […]
From Neglected to Nurtured: The Restoration of Nalla Thanni Kulam
United Way of Chennai, a non-profit organization focuses on working towards addressing the issues pertaining to environment, education, health, livelihood and much more. We partnered with Symrise India Private Limited to restore the Nalla Thanni Kulam pond with a capacity of 6 million litres located in Sithalapakkam Panchayat, Kanchipuram district through their CSR initiative. The […]
Markets & Economy 2023: 360 Degree Awards
United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have our annual fundraising event, Markets & Economy. In the 12th edition of our annual fundraiser, we […]
Empowering Transgender Communities in Chennai: Our Journey and Impact
United Way of Chennai upholds the values of social inclusion and diversity. In the journey that we have embarked with our CSR partners, we have been actively working with the transgender communities across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Pondicherry on various Transgender Livelihood Programs. Our focus lies in ensuring livelihood enhancement for the […]
Why This Is India’s Decade
Why This Is India’s Decade | Speech by Ridham Desai | Markets & Economy 2023 United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have our […]
India: A Reformed Agenda for 2047
India: A Reformed Agenda for 2047 | Speech by Sanjeev Sanyal | Markets & Economy 2023 United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have […]
Setting up a E-Sevai centre at Kanyakumari
The COVID Express, an initiative of United Way of Chennai, assists the families who have lost their breadwinner to COVID -19. We have helped 118 families to regain strength and livelihood through their struggle and this journey has been quite emotional for us. As part of this initiative, we assisted two women entrepreneurs from Kanyakumari […]
Bringing Children Back to School after COVID19
When the pandemic hit, we made our homes a workplace, the living rooms became classrooms and somewhere between the pandemic’s chaos we lost the sense of place. Today we get back to work, we return to school. Along with our partner HSBC over a span of one-month UWC distributed 6457 school kits that consist of […]
