Pune, India
Current Social Work
Yardi, with 45 offices worldwide, has its largest branch in Pune, India—a city deeply connected to the company’s roots through its founder, Anant Yardi. Pune, a metropolitan hub of over seven million people, faces significant challenges, with nearly 40% of its residents living in slums, locally known as vastis.
Recognizing this need, Yardi’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit in Pune launched the Yardi Vasti Vikas Prakalp (YVVP) in 2014, translating to the "Yardi Urban Community Development Program." This initiative drives impactful change by supporting six core programs aimed at reducing hardships and increasing opportunities for vasti residents. The six core programs are: Sanitation & Solid Waste Management, Health, Education, Livelihood, Youth Empowerment, and Community Mobilization. In addition to its programs, YVVP collaborates with numerous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to further its mission.
Additional information about this impactful work will be available soon.
Sanitation & Solid Waste Management
- Facilitate maintenance of community toilets in vastis
- Coordinate cleaning and improve condition of community toilets
- Encourage responsible garbage disposal habits
- Organize composting of kitchen waste in vastis in collaboration with other stakeholders
Health
- Provide parent education focused on child nutrition and health
- Identify and reduce cases of malnutrition in children
- Provide life skills education for adolescent girls and women on topics of menstrual health, reproductive health, and gender equality
- Identify and address issues of reproductive health and anemia in adolescent girls
Education
- Ensure each child in the vastis regularly attends school
- Improve school environment so that every child is given the opportunity to learn
- Increase parent and community participation in local government school
Vocational Training (VT)
- Identify vasti youth and women who are looking for livelihood opportunities
- Connect women and youth to verified/registered VT institutes and trainers
- Subsidize 75-100% of the vocational course fees
- Support participants with job placement or
home-based income-generating activities
Youth Development Program (YDP)
- Inculcate values of critical thinking, scientific enquiry, democracy, social justice and gender justice among youth in vastis
- Identify and address issues related to behavior or lifestyle among youth
- Encourage youth to become peer leaders and catalysts for change
Vasti Sahbhag Prakalp (VSP)aka Community Mobilizer (CM) Project
- Expand outreach and effectiveness across all focus areas by collaborating with other organizations/NGOs who will identify and train CMs
- Actively engage CMs who will in turn help identify beneficiaries and involve community members to participate in initiatives across all focus areas