This year, our outreach has covered 2.7 million lives in 552 villages in 20 districts of India and Zambia. Our community investment for the year was INR 1,791 million (USD 38 million).

Community Matrix
The Community Matrix, a scenario review tool, has been developed internally for planning and self-assessing our performance on the key elements of community development. It acts as a compass in defining the direction of our work with communities, in line with the social philosophy of the group and provides uniformity and alignment within the company.

A multi-pronged approach has been adopted to deliver preventive and curative Health services in villages supported by a well-knit strategy addressing issues from the household to the community. We reached out to more than 730,000 people through our 18 company-run hospitals, health centres, health posts, mobile health units and health and hygiene camps coupled with programs towards inculcation of positive health seeking behaviour.

Work is in progress both at the Vedanta Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Raipur and the Vedanta Heart Care Centre (VHCC) at Udaipur. The two mobile cancer detection vans run as an outreach of the Vedanta Cancer Hospital and Research Centre to screen suspected patients in remote villages. In the 26 camps conducted in 423 villages covering 23,589 people, 2,319 suspected patients were registered, of which 129 were diagnosed as positive and were treated at BALCO Hospital and the Raipur Government Medical Hospital.

Our 360 degree approach to Education aspires to nurture talent. From 83 preschool centres, to 36 bridge schools, to six formal company-run schools, to 37 adult education centres and skills-based training, we worked with over 1,40,000 children, youths and adults. Improving enrollment and retention, our involvement in 2,546 Anganwadi Centres under the Vedanta Bal Chetna Project augmented nutritional levels of 132,000 children through supplementary feeding and health care initiatives. Eight Midday Meal kitchens served hygienic and nutritious food to 250,000 children in 2,952 schools bringing uniformity in their health conditions. For the company run formal schools, we have a technical tie-up with Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) and Kendriya Vidyalaya, apex national level educational bodies.