DKSH India collaborated with The Society for Door Step Schools in Pune, India, to help them reach out to underprivileged children with teaching tools and support their academic progress.
Media release
Mumbai, India, March 16, 2020 – DKSH India's Human Resources team organized a day visit to The Society for Door Step Schools (DSS) in Pune, Maharashtra. The trip should help understand the organization's signature program “The School on Wheels”. With this program, the DSS team reaches out with study material and teaching aids to children in locations where there is a lack of proper learning environments.
DKSH India's team also visited the municipal primary school. The children received a variety of reading materials by the Door Step School's "Book Fairies" with the aim of enhancing their reading skills. Besides providing books, they conducted vocabulary games, narrated stories and sang in groups.
DSS surveys out-of-school children from various remote and underprivileged areas and helps pre-school children with reading and writing skills along with enrolling them into schools. They also provide children with free transportation to school to ensure that they can go to school regularly and do not drop out. These initiatives provide a supplementary educational support for the children who would otherwise be deprived of educational opportunities.
The collaboration with DSS is in line with DKSH's sustainability efforts. DKSH is deeply rooted in the communities it serves and strives to create positive impacts beyond business activities. Through different sustainability projects, the company creates opportunities for development and improvement across society.
Mrs. Rajani Paranjpe, Founder of The Society for Door Step Schools, stated: “Education is a fundamental right of every child. In our endeavor to facilitate education for children from marginalized communities, we are happy to have DKSH's support. Their help is going to support more than 1,000 children from the municipal school to achieve their expected learning levels.”
Atul Nagarkar, Managing Director, DKSH India, commented: “We are happy to donate towards this good cause. We hope our contribution will help The Society for Door Step Schools to develop innovative teaching tools and materials. The goal is to help children achieve their expected learning levels and be adequately prepared with the basic education before they enter primary school.”
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DKSH India Pvt. Ltd.
Olive Fernandes
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About The Society for Door Step Schools
The Society for Door Step Schools (DSS) was founded by Mrs. Rajani Paranjpe, her student Mrs. Bina Lakshari and other colleagues from Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work in Mumbai in 1989. Expanded to Pune in 1993, DSS, through its community and school intervention programs aims to address the three main issues of primary education of underprivileged children: Non-enrolment, wastage and stagnation. DSS also works with parents to raise their awareness and increase their participation in their children’s education in order to make the programs sustainable.
About DKSH
DKSH is the leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia. The Group helps companies to grow across the Business Units Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Performance Materials and Technology. The service portfolio covers sourcing, market insights, marketing and sales, eCommerce, distribution and logistics as well as after-sales services. Publicly listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, the Group operates in 36 markets with 33,350 specialists, generating net sales of CHF 11.6 billion in 2019. With its Swiss heritage, DKSH has been deeply rooted in Asia Pacific since 1865. The DKSH Business Unit Performance Materials distributes specialty chemicals and ingredients for food, pharmaceutical, personal care and various industrial applications. With 46 innovation centers and regulatory support worldwide, we create cutting-edge formulations that comply with local regulations. With around 1,100 specialists, the Business Unit generated net sales of CHF 1.0 billion in 2019.