Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited

* Swachha Odisha Gram Vikas - Odisha, one of the country's poorest states, faces significant challenges in living standards due to low per capita income. This project focuses on enhancing access to clean water, safe sanitation, and promoting healthy sanitary practices through the use of toilets. Key initiatives include ensuring access to water for every household in the village and constructing overhead water tanks for water storage and supply to individual toilets, fostering a healthier and more hygienic living environment.

* Swachha Telangana Project - Phase VI - This initiative aims to provide purified drinking water to remote villages through the installation of Ultra Filtration (UF) plants, offering 'Any Time Water' (ATW) solutions to ensure consistent access to safe and clean drinking water for underserved communities.

* Arts in Education - This program creates a joyful and engaging learning environment for primary school children, strengthening their foundational skills and enhancing classroom participation. It fosters creativity, imagination, and provides a safe space for children to develop these essential abilities.

* My Dream Scholarship Program - A comprehensive poverty alleviation initiative focused on supporting children from the Commercial Vehicle Crew Members (CVCM) community. The program provides scholarships for college education, technical training, and higher studies, empowering underprivileged children with opportunities for a brighter future.

* AKKAM - STEM Education & Labs in Government Schools - This project establishes STEM facilities in five government schools in Chennai, aiming to enhance students' aptitude, academic performance, and self-confidence. It also promotes higher enrollment by providing improved educational resources.

* CNC Tutor Machine for Technical Training Centre - In collaboration with WORTH Trust, an NGO for differently-abled students (speech & hearing impaired and physically challenged), Chola has introduced a CNC Tutor Machine at the Technical Training Centre. This initiative equips students with advanced CNC machining skills, improving their employability and career prospects.

* Mini-Library for Anganwadis - Chola supports inclusive early childhood education by equipping 50 anganwadis with mini-library resource kits. These kits include 20 multi-sensory educational and play items along with storage cabinets. The initiative ensures the inclusion of children with disabilities (CWDs) and enhances pre-school education quality, supported by a six-month teacher training program.

* Financial Literacy Plus Allied Services - A program designed to educate Commercial Vehicle Crew Members (CVCMs) and their families, especially women, on financial planning, government schemes, banking, digital transactions, safety, insurance, investments, and saving practices. It aims to enhance financial awareness and self-reliance within these communities.

* Classrooms at Government Girls Higher Secondary School - Chola has contributed to constructing additional classrooms at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Mogappair, Chennai. This expansion facilitates higher education for girls from economically weaker sections, increasing enrollment and providing better educational opportunities in the region.

* Arts Education Programme Elements - This program integrates arts education into students’ holistic development, encouraging them to discover the joy of learning both within and beyond the curriculum. It empowers teachers to connect students’ lived experiences with their textbook syllabus by exploring local arts, cultural forms, and practices.

* The Dakshina Chitra Museum - Cholamandalam Arts & Museum Management Project - This initiative supports student internships to develop practical work skills in managing a living museum. It serves as a hub for knowledge creation and exchange, encompassing activities like collections, archiving, conservation, research, library management, arts and museum administration, and exposure programs for school students. The project also facilitates exhibitions, events, cultural tourism, a crafts shop, crafts bazaars, and financial and administrative training.

* Mangala Isai Vizha - Mangala Isai Vizha is a unique music initiative celebrating the Mangala vadyams of South India, particularly the Nadaswaram and Thavil. This platform highlights the exceptional talent of young musicians mastering these majestic instruments, preserving and promoting this rich musical heritage.

Chola empowers aspiring female golfers to dream big and achieve greater success. By providing essential support for their training, Chola enables them to compete confidently and excel on larger platforms.

The Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) initiative is dedicated to transforming the lives of Indian farmers by fostering prosperity, ensuring market access, and promoting sustainability. This is achieved through comprehensive technical, financial, and marketing support tailored to meet farmers' needs.

* High Altitude Program in Spiti - A village-level livestock security initiative offering compensation to villagers for livestock lost to snow leopards and wolves, fostering coexistence with wildlife.

* Oceans and Coasts Program: This program studies how fishers and fishing communities make harvesting decisions using socioeconomic, behavioral, and resource management theories. By comparing a well-established coastal fishery with a developing fishery in an oceanic atoll system, it examines how local and regional factors shape the sustainability or overharvest trajectories of tropical marine fisheries.

* Elephant Program in Valparai - Utilizing communication technology to enhance human-elephant coexistence in the plantation-forest landscape of Anaimalai, this program focuses on saving lives and reducing human-wildlife conflict.

* Conflicts to Coexistence: Employs mobile phone technology to enhance human safety and support elephant conservation in modified landscapes across South India.

* Marine Species Conservation: Studies and mediates the responses of marine species to local and global disturbances, supporting sustainable marine ecosystems.

* Season Watch: A citizen science initiative engaging the public in documenting seasonal changes in flowering, fruiting, and leafing of trees, fostering awareness of climate change.

* Eastern Himalayas Conservation: Focuses on the research and protection of threatened hornbills and mammals in the biodiverse Eastern Himalayan region.

Research and development on solar based energy and sustainable agricultural practice in rural areas for improving crop production.