Corporate Social Responsibility
GRP’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) division is established to create lasting value through responsible business and activities. Our programmes underpin the core issue of creating a better society and building individual capability.
GRP’s sustainable business activities to our based on scientific research that promise to add value to the society, while reducing the impact on the Earth’s resources.
GRP’s CSR division aims to contribute towards social and economic development of the communities; build a sustainable way of life for all sections of society; focus on providing education, health care, sustainable livelihood and empowerment of women. The ethos of our organisation is to minimise damage to human health and the environment, both locally and globally.
A better society
Since the launch of its CSR division, GRP has successfully mobilised resources for relief and rehabilitation in the event of natural calamities. The company strongly supports projects aimed at women's education and vocational training.
GRP has also actively worked towards providing education for needy students, encouraging women empowerment, providing sustainable livelihood for the needy section and conservation of environment in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
GRP has built a strong association with institutes like: Tata Institute of Social Science, Pravara Medical Trust, Ankleshwar Rotary Welfare Trust, Parivartan Mahila Sanstha, K C Mahindra Education Trust, Nanhi Kali Foundation, Ankleshwar Industrial Development Society and Bhavnagar Stree Kelvani Mandal.
We invite each and everyone of you to partner with us in making the the world a happier, healthier place. Here is a glimpse of some of the initiatives:
- Balwadis/Mobile vans for elementary education
- Vocational training for adult education
- Merit based scholarship to support University Education
- Strengthen/support existing institutes engaged in providing primary, secondary and higher level education
- Vocational training aimed at employability
- Supporting initiatives around Yoga, meditation, other self-help
- Awareness programs for clean living/housing facilities (5S, etc.)
- Awareness programs on hygiene, safe water
- Encouraging plantation of trees through self-help groups of women
- Primary health care centres
- Mobile health care projects
- Preventive health through awareness programs
The Water wheel is designed keeping everybody in mind. It's easy for women to roll it from a distance, is hygienic as it has a wide mouth opening which facilitates easy pouring and easy cleaning. It also has a unique cap-in-cap design that keeps water clean.
GRP 's Goal is to reduce the drudgery of water collection for marginalised families.
Support 100 marginalised families with water wheel which will improve the health and hygiene of families with clean and portable water.
Outputs & Outcomes:
- Reduces suffering caused by carrying heavy load
- Improves hygiene and health condition
- Empowers women and children
- Improves morale and personal dignity
- More time for economic activities
- More time for education
A clean planet
Recover, Recycle, Reuse’ is GRP’s raison d’etre as well as mantra for creating a clean planet. Our entire operation is guided by this mantra, starting from product designing to materials selection, process development, solutions offered & possible effluent disposal
GRP is amongst the first companies in the rubber recycling industry to design and commission an air pollution control system. The company has been promoting use of solar at all its plants. Water used in the process is treated before discharge. The team at GRP constantly works towards creating new business and products through cost-effective and environmentally sound recycling activities.
GRP aims to serve the rubber recycling industry by advocating its significance to the public, government and associated stakeholders by promoting the use of recycled rubber across multiple consumer and industrial products. The products of GRP are leading the society to less consumption of virgin polymer. The team at GRP has derived ways and means of contributing towards a cleaner, greener planet through various business offerings.
GRP is committed to providing sustainable solutions. The Research and Development wing at GRP strives to discover bigger and better solutions to drive home an improved materials waste management system. Over the past four decades, through constant innovative reengineering initiatives, significant savings in terms of new materials, power and equipment substitution is seen.
GRP, alongside these, actively supports various initiatives related to environmental preservation and awareness generation through its philanthropic grants.
GRP Visits
Visit to Tiwala orphange home
May 2018
‘The Refrigerator’ was one of the gifts, GRP team gifted to Orphange home at Titwala, along with other necessary items for the girls out there. It was a great gesture by GRP to express humanity, love and kindness towards these students and extending support for their livelihood.
Visit to ‘Anchorage’ – school for Mentally Retarded
Mumbai, August 2019
Anchorage – a home school for adults with special needs at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai. It engages students (adults) with life skills development, various activity based and behavioural workshops as well as indulges them in different simple but interesting job work contracts and train them upskill them to improve on their abilities to perform/complete those, etc. The money earned out of these contracts is equally distributed amongst all as their stipend each month to uphold their self esteem and dignity. GRP contributed to this fabulous institution by gifting a laptop as well as a bluetooth speaker which will certainly encourage them to become independent as well as spend valuatime time with each other. GRP this way, also tried to empower all the staff and teachers out there. We also enjoyed cutting a cake with them and shared few choclates!
Visit to SKMDSB
GRP donated hand made paper for completing the school projects to these girls in 2018 and a printer as recently as in 2020 to Kamlaben Mehta Dadar School for the Blind (SKMDSB). Founded in 1900 by the American Marathi Mission 107 years ago, this is the country’s premier primary-cum-secondary widely acknowledged school for visually challenged girl children. It is a kindergarten-class X school which offers education to 170 girl children from underprivileged families. On & average, 3Lacs is the no for students out of the estimated no of 15 million people who are visually challenged individuals in India. Hence, this has been a unique initiative by GRP under women empowerment goal to strengthen girl education and encourage as well as support one of the neglected but significant section of the society.
Visit to Shartul Gurukul Centre
Ghatkopar, Mumbai, November 2019
Shartul Gurukul Centre for Special Children is a unique rehabilitation and educational centre for special children. The centre caters to the special needs of the children affected with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and learning disabilities with excellent therapeutic management education programs. The centre aims at the holistic development of special children and provides supporting structure to them by creating positive, loving & caring environment. GRP celebrated children’s day and shared a chocolate cake made by these special children and had a fun blast with a small dance party! As a part of their academic requirements and project requirements, we donated a laptop on this occasion.
Case studies/Human interest stories:
Lakshmibai lives in Porgaon village of Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, with her husband 2 daughters and 1 son for the past twenty years. Since her marriage she has been fetching water from a well situated about 1.5 Kms from her village. This had becomeher daily chore. She used to carry two steel pots one on her head andanother on her waist. It took about 5-6 hours a day to fetch water for her household of seven members. She is now 42 years old and with increasing age she could not fetch water due to severe back and neck aches. This also affected her income source as she was not in a position to support her husband in agriculture work.
Lakshmibai got waterwheel support from Habitat for Humanity India to fetch water from the water source 1.5km from her village. This initiative saved her 5-6 hours of fetching water to an hour; children also help her to fetch water through water wheel. The role of fetching water has transferred from women to men in her village.
The water wheel support has saved Lakshmibai’s time to mobilize communities for theircommon welfare activities. With the support of partners organization she organize meetings of the farmers, promotes savings groups, helps establish small and micro-enterprises, and organizes workshops related to organic farming and water conservation/ management. Due to her continued role in fetching water for the household through conventional steel pots, she was unable to attend any of the meetings. Now, she has more valuable time in hand to work for the development of the village. She believes that due to this initiative social transformation is taking place. Water wheel has therefore become a vehicle for development.