About ING Vysya Foundation

World over, the ING Group is strengthening its reputation as a socially responsible company. In line with this, the business units of ING in India, - ING Bank, ING Life and ING Investment Management set up the

ING Vysya Foundation in 2004 with the mission being, to promote its community development initiatives in India.

“The goal of the Foundation is to promote primary education for underprivileged children.”
 
About ING Vysya Foundation & ING Chances for Children
The Chances for Children program – an ING global initiative in partnership with UNICEF is also implemented under the ING Vysya Foundation in India. This program aims to improve the well being of children, aged between 4 – 12 years, by giving them access to free, compulsory, basic schooling. This will help develop each child's ability to the fullest. The program aspires to contribute towards this goal by supporting educational organizations with the necessary skills and investments.

know more about ING Vysya Foundation’s activities - ING Chances for Children
 
Our Trustees

ING Vysya Foundation is governed by a board of Trustees from all the business units to govern and monitor all activities of the Foundation.

ING Vysya Foundation Trustees

  • Mr. Kshitij Jain (CEO&MD ING Vysya Life Insurance)
  • Mr. Jayant Mehrotra (CFO, ING Vysya Bank)
  • Mr. Appa Rao (VP Compliance)
  • Mr. J M Prasad (Chief HR, ING Vysya Bank)

CFC Ambassador

  • Mr. Vaughn Richtor (CEO & MD ING Vysya Bank)
 
About the Director
Joyatri has worked with children and women for the last 14 years. She has served in United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), South Asia Regional Office for several years, focusing on the rights of children, particularly on the educational rights that prepare less privileged children for a brighter future. Her work with Equitable Tourism Options, Bangalore and Lutheran World Service (India) required her to work with children in difficult circumstances where along with promoting comprehensive child education programmes, she was also responsible for life-skill development, career counseling and creative space development of less privileged children. Her role as the Director of the Foundation would be to facilitate alignment and implementation of CSR activities across associated ING entities in India.
 
Background


UNICEF

ING Vysya Foundation was set up in 2005 by the business units of ING Vysya (ING Vysya Bank, ING Vysya Life Insurance, ING Vysya Mutual Fund and Optimix) to promote its Corporate Social Responsibility. The mandate for the Foundation is to promote primary education for under privileged children. This fits in well with ING Group’s global vision of empowering children through education and ING’s partnership with UNICEF.

ING Vysya Foundation’s commitment to empower children through primary education has been the focus in the last three years. In a country with an estimated 50 million children deprived of basic primary education and health care enormous support, dedication and firm belief is necessary to make a difference and to change the scenario. This effort has been very successful in reaching out to underprivileged children and providing them with a platform to learn, grow and achieve through partnerships with five non profit organizations located in India.
 
Partners and Projects

Akshara (Location – Bangalore)

Akshara is part of the Pratham network that works in 13 states across India to protect every child’s right to primary education. With this larger objective in mind Akshara Foundation launched the library programme in 2004 and in just 2 years the library programme has become an essential part of Akshara’s in school approach. The library programme complemented Akshara’s “Accelerated Reading Programme” it provided the much needed reinforcement of reading skills learnt in a short period of time. In two years, Akshara has provided for 60 such libraries each equipped with a trained librarian and thousands of books.

ING Vysya Foundation is funding 10 community libraries through Akshara Foundation, providing much needed reading support to over 2,500 children in Bangalore.

Pratham (Location – Mumbai)

Pratham is the parent organization to Bangalore based Akshara. Pratham is committed to educating street children through non formal education Pratham’s goal is to impact 50,000 children through primary education in the next 3 years.

ING Vysya Foundation is partnering with Pratham to provide financial support for 100 working children on Mumbai’s train platforms. The children are seen working as shoe shine boys/ girls and are young as 10-12 years old. The Pratham /ING Vysya Train/ Platform programme will have two components viz. full time residential shelter for 50 children and 4 month temporary residential programme for 50 children when parents are away. The programme will have the following objectives:

  • Taking them out of working conditions
  • Housing 50 children in a residential shelter for a whole year
  • Housing 50 children on a need basis during the time their family is not in Mumbai.
  • Providing support educational classes
  • Providing vocational skill training
  • Mainstreaming them into school.

GIDF (Location – Delhi)

The philosophy of GIDF is based on the belief that each child deserves an opportunity for total development. Through the pre- school programme they aim to expand and reinforce the child’s innate strengths. GIDF aims to spend the early years of children in learning and gaining a good foundation in the basic skills required throughout life.

Underprivileged children who have no hope of education, let alone quality education will be given an opportunity to learn, grow and achieve through GIDF’s pre –school programme and then be sent to mainstream schools.

Sukrupa (Location – Bangalore)

Sukrupa is working to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance among the slum communities through the following three programs:

  1. Pre School Programme: A day care programme for children between 2- 5 years of age. The children are provided with a nutritious meal and basic education while their mothers are at work (mostly domestic workers or daily wage workers) Without Sukrupa these children are mostly left to fend for themselves wandering around.
  2. After School programme: Operates from 5pm to 8pm. Monday to Saturday for the age group 5 to 16 years. It is a school support programme where the children get to improve their reading and writing skills along with various creative activities in arts and crafts.
  3. Resident Programme: Selected few children around 5 years are mentored in all walks of like under personal care and guidance.

ING Vysya Foundation supports 10 resident children at the Sukrupa facility.

SOS Village - Tsunami (Location – Cuddalore - Chennai)

ING Vysya Foundation is providing financial aid for 100 Tsunami affected children through SOS Village, providing them with shelter, education and health care.

ARDAR

ING Vysya Foundation partnered with ARDAR in 2007 and is providing financial support for two school buildings in the slum of Chandra Babu Nagar in Secunderabad and Jubilee Hills. The schools will provide a clean and safe environment to over 400 children in these areas.

IIMPACT, Lucknow

The main focus of IIMPACT is to educate the girl child and bring about much needed change in their future. ING Vysya Foundation supports IIMPACT an organization working in rural India.
The goal of this project is to bring all girls not going to any school between the age group of 6-14 years under the fold of primary education within a period of four years.

The Foundation supports 15 Learning centers in rural Lucknow. The cost for one year being Rs. 10, 00,00.