CSR Activities

What is CSR?
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a business
approach that contributes to sustainable development
by delivering economic, social, and environmental
benefits for all stakeholders.
• * In India, Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013

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mandates every company having a net worth of Rs. 500
crores or more, or a turnover of Rs. 1000 crore or more,
or a net profit of Rs. 5 crores or more during the
immediately preceding financial year to undertake
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.
• * Have to spend 2% of the company's average net profit
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 About Hindustan Unilever
 HUL was founded in the year 1933.
 Headquartered in Mumbai, India.
 Industry – FMCG( fast-moving consumer goods)
 Purpose: to make sustainable living
commonplace.
 HUL is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company,
one of the world's leading suppliers of Food,
Home Care, Personal Care, and Refreshment
products with sales in over 190 countries.
 50+ brands that are household names.

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 HUL – CSR Plan
Improve the
health of the
planet Major Areas they focus on are:
1. Education and Scholarships
Improve
2. Healthcare
people’s
health, 3. Rural Development
confidence and
wellbeing 4. Sanitation
5. Women Empowerment
6. Water Management
Contribute to a
fairer, more
socially
7. Disaster Management
inclusive world
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HUL Major CSR Projects -

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 COVID 19 Relief Activities
Project Sector: Preventive Healthcare, Water and Sanitation
Project Location: Pan India
• Company was one of the first corporates to commit INR 100
crores towards societal work to complement the
Government’s work on dealing with COVID-19.
• As a responsible Company, they took the following actions:
1. Product Donations
2. Public Awareness Campaigns
3. Healthcare Infrastructure
4. Food Donation Drive & Supporting Migrant Workers

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 Happy Homes: Asha Daan & Ankur
Project Sector: Preventive Healthcare, Water and Sanitation
o Asha Daan: The initiative began in 1976, when HUL supported
Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to set up Asha Daan,
a home in Mumbai for abandoned, challenged children, the HIV-
positive,e and the destitute. Since the inception of Asha Daan in
1976, HUL has been looking after the maintenance of the premises.
At any point of time, HUL takes care of over 400 infants, destitute
men and women and HIV-positive patients at Asha Daan.
o Ankur: Ankur is a centre for special education for specially-abled
children at the Doom Dooma in Assam. It was set up in 1993 by
HUL’s Plantations Division at Doom Dooma. Ankur provides
educational, vocational, and recreational activities to specially-
abled children.

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 Project Sanjeevani
• Project Sector: Preventive Healthcare, Water and
Sanitation
• Project Location: Tinsukia-Assam
• HUL runs a free mobile medical service camp --
Sanjeevani -- near its Doom Dooma Factory in
Assam. The aim is to provide free mobile medical
facility in the interior villages of Assam. There are two
mobile vans dedicated to the project, each vehicle has
one male and one female doctor, two nurses, a
medical attendant (helper) and a driver. The vans are
equipped with basic kits such as diagnostic kit, blood
pressure measuring unit, medicines and a mobile
stretcher. 8
 Promoting Nutrition and Hygiene
• Project Sector : Eradication Hunger, Poverty, Malnutrition
• Project Location: Pan India
• Community centric initiatives focusing on importance of
nutrition, health & hygiene. HUL supported COVID-19
relief response, distribution of meals and ration kits to
COVID-19 effected people, addressing nutrition needs of
migrant communities and initiatives around Company’s
manufacturing facilities. To generate awareness and
behaviour change to address the issues of malnutrition and
micronutrient deficiency.
• About 93,000 meals kits containing staples, pulses, cooking
oil and spices were distributed for use by the families.
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 Project Shakti
• Project Sector: Education, Employability, and Livelihoods Enhancement
• Project Shakti is an initiative to financially empower rural women and
create livelihood opportunities for them. Through this project, the
Company endeavors to enhance the livelihoods of rural women. Around
70% of Shakti Ammas are working in low Human Development Index
(HDI < 0.51) districts.
• HUL has a team of Rural Sales Promoters (RSPs) who coach and help
Shakti Entrepreneurs in managing their business. Across 18 States,
Project Shakti has nearly 1,36,000 Shakti Entrepreneurs whom they call
‘Shakti Ammas’. This programme has helped these women gain selling
skills, become self-confident, improve their self-esteem and learn
communication skills. Most importantly, our interventions have helped
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 Plastic Waste Management
• Project Sector: Environmental Sustainability
• Committed to make 100% of its plastic packaging reusable,
recyclable or compostable by 2025. Further, 25% of all the plastic
we use is expected to come from recycled sources by 2025.
Unilever has committed to halve the use of virgin plastic, by
reducing their absolute use of plastic packaging by more than
1,00,000 tonnes and accelerate the use of recycled plastic.
Unilever will also help collect and process more plastic packaging
than it sells.
• Company is also working closely with the Government and other
partners such as United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) for end-to-end pilot projects for plastic waste
management.
• Company has developed a curriculum ‘Waste No More’ to create
awareness and drive behaviour change on waste segregation and
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recycling among school children and people in housing societies.
 Prabhat
• Project Sector: Rural Development
• HUL aims to build ‘’sustainable and inclusive communities’’
by contributing to a fairer, more socially and
environmentally inclusive world, while using its scale for
good through its community development initiative called
“Prabhat”. This is done through focused pillars of economic
empowerment (skills, livelihood and entrepreneurship),
environmental sustainability (water, waste and carbon
neutrality), health (WASH & nutrition) and education (basic
infrastructure) across HUL factory locations in India. Our
projects around the manufacturing units for Nutrition
products are primarily focussed on addressing nutrition
related challenges for women and children.
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 Swachh Aadat Swachh Bharat
• Project Sector: Preventive Healthcare, Water and Sanitation
• The project is in line with Government of India’s Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan to promote good health and hygiene practices
and aims to achieve the Swachh Bharat goals. The goal is to
popularise the adoption of 3 clean habits: (i)wash hands
before meals and after defecation, (ii)adopt safe drinking
water practices and (iii)stop open defecation. Continue to
build partnerships to identify, advocate, create awareness of
existing solutions and to create new ones in the areas of
Waste Management and Sanitation. The Community Hygiene
Centre – ‘Suvidha’ is another important project by the
Company that contributes to SASB. ‘Suvidha’ is a first-of-its-
kind urban water, hygiene and sanitation community centre.
We will continue to create more Suvidha Centers in
partnership to give people access to clean water, sanitation
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and laundry facilities.
 Water Conservation Projects
• Project Sector: Environmental Sustainability
• Implementing Partners: Hindustan Unilever Foundation
• Company through the Foundation (HUF) will continue to partner on mutli-year
programmes with reputed NGOs in the country to scale up solutions that can
help address India’s water challenges - specifically for rural communities that
intersect with agriculture.
• HUF established its ‘Water for Public Good’ programme anchored in the belief
that water is a common good and must be governed by citizen communities.
The aim was to catalyse effective solutions to India’s water challenges involving
government, communities, experts, and mission-based organisations. Across
diverse river basins and hydrogeological zones, three core pillars define HUF’s
work with rural communities:
 Know More: Build water numeracy to help quantify availability, budget, and allocate
water use
 Save More: Promote scientific citizen-led water conservation and governance efforts
 Use Less: Drive behavior change for responsible water use in agriculture 14