CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Building a better tomorrow
We’re a 20-person technology firm from Bengaluru. The work we’ve supported has touched over 2,000 lives.
We have no ‘CSR’ department, just a habit of finding people doing honest, unglamorous work in places most organisations don’t look.
ETHOS
In their words
Our process starts with a phone call or a mention from someone we trust. We go see for ourselves, say, the classroom that needs fixing, the forest with a specific local issue that needs help, the hospital corridor that could do with a facelift, or whatever else it is. We ask hard questions, and if what we see moves us, we show up with whatever support we can offer.
We have no application form. The organisations we back are often unknown outside the communities they serve; that’s usually what draws us to them.
- We find partners through people we trust
- We visit before we commit
- We ask hard questions
- We show up with money, time, skills, or connections, depending on what’s needed
AREAS OF IMPACT
Where we show up
Education
A child who can’t afford a uniform stays home. A school without a working toilet loses its girls after a certain age. These are causes we’ve taken up because we knew the people doing the work and trusted what they were building.
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School uniforms & teacher salaries:
Supporting Gnanavi Rural Development Trust (GRDT) so that the basics of showing up to school are never a barrier
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Restrooms for girls:
Funded girls’ restroom construction at GRDT schools. Dignity and safety come before learning can happen
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Mid-day meals:
Partnering with Akshaya Patra, Lovedale Foundation, Aadhamya Chetana, and Ragigudda School to keep children fed, present, and able to concentrate
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Engineering scholarships:
Every year, we sponsor tuition for merit students at UVCE who would otherwise have to walk away from a seat they earned
Healthcare
The people we support through healthcare have waited years for surgeries they couldn’t afford: tribal elders, people managing leprosy without consistent treatment, someone driving hours for dialysis.
Through Rotary Foundation, Sivananda Math Hospital, and Rikhiapeeth in Jharkhand, we’ve been a small part of making care reach people it otherwise wouldn’t.
Some of the projects we worked on include:
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Leprosy treatment
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Haemodialysis support
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Cataract operations and eye care
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Surgeries for tribal elders
Specially Abled Persons
Over 100 wheelchairs donated through Provision Asia and Margadarshi. For most recipients, mobility was the one thing standing between their home and the rest of their life.
Environment
In and around the Bandipur and Lakkere Reserve forests, we support Junglescapes, an organisation working at the intersection of ecology and community. The work takes years and it’s tied to place: specific land, specific communities.
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Rainwater harvesting:
Restoring water access in areas where it had disappeared entirely
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Natural beekeeping:
Supporting tribal communities in honey harvesting using traditional, non-invasive methods
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Removing invasive lantana:
Paid tribal employment to clear lantana and restore native forest cover. The right people being paid to do work that needed doing
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Kaveri river otters:
Sponsored an independent documentary on otter populations in the Kaveri. Most people don’t know this species is there. Now there’s a record of it
Heritage
India’s textual and spiritual heritage, its Vedas, its Bhagavata traditions, its Sanskrit corpus, lives in manuscripts, oral lineages, and the hands of scholars working without fanfare to keep it alive.
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Published books on Vedas, Bhagavata, and Yoga with Ramakrishna Mission and Bharati Samskruta Pratishthana
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Funded translation of six books from Sanskrit to Kannada
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Partially restored two temples in Dakshina Kannada
GET INVOLVED
We might be able to help
If you’re doing something meaningful, tell us. We want to hear from people with their hands in the work, who could do more with a little support behind them.
If you don’t know anyone who knows us, globetek.in is where to start.