{"id":12291,"date":"2020-04-01T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2020-04-01T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:24:21","slug":"wipro-azim-premji-foundation-commit-rs-1125-crore-to-tackle-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/wipro-azim-premji-foundation-commit-rs-1125-crore-to-tackle-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wipro, Azim Premji Foundation commit Rs 1125 crore to tackle COVID-19 Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wipro Ltd, Wipro Enterprises Ltd and Azim Premji\u00a0Foundation, have together committed Rs 1125 crore towards tackling the unprecedented\u00a0health and humanitarian crisis arising from the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. These\u00a0resources will help enable the dedicated medical and service fraternity in the frontline of the\u00a0battle against the pandemic and in mitigating its wide-ranging human impact, particularly on\u00a0the most disadvantaged of our society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Integrated action will be taken for a comprehensive on-the-ground response in specific\u00a0geographies, focused on immediate humanitarian aid, and augmentation of healthcare\u00a0capacity, including containing the COVID-19 outbreak and treating those affected by it.\u00a0These responses will be carefully coordinated with relevant government institutions and\u00a0would be executed by the Azim Premji Foundation\u2019s 1600-person team, in collaboration with\u00a0many of its over 350 strong civil society partners, who have a deep presence across the\u00a0country. These efforts will fully leverage the technology expertise, sourcing systems,\u00a0infrastructure, and distribution reach of Wipro.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-754\" src=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wipro-Campus-Image-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Wipro - Campus - Image\" width=\"715\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wipro-Campus-Image-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wipro-Campus-Image-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wipro-Campus-Image-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wipro-Campus-Image.jpg 1596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the Rs 1125 crore, Wipro Ltd\u2019s commitment is Rs 100 crore, Wipro Enterprises Ltd\u2019s is Rs\u00a025 crore, and that of the Azim Premji Foundation is Rs 1000 crore. These sums are in\u00a0addition to the annual CSR activities of Wipro, and the usual philanthropic spends of the\u00a0Azim Premji Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modern global society has not confronted a crisis of this magnitude and type. The Azim\u00a0Premji Foundation and Wipro believe that we must all work together to not only deal with this\u00a0crisis and minimize its human impact, particularly on the disadvantaged, but also learn from\u00a0these extraordinary times, to develop a more resilient global community, based on justice,\u00a0equity, humaneness, and ecological sustainability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are completely committed to this quest and wish everyone all safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wipro Ltd, Wipro Enterprises Ltd and Azim Premji\u00a0Foundation, have together committed Rs 1125 crore towards tackling the unprecedented\u00a0health and humanitarian crisis arising from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[16471,15664,16473,16474,16472,585],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-business-political-national-realestate","tag-azim-premji-foundation","tag-covid19","tag-crisis","tag-humanitarian","tag-inr1125-crore","tag-wipro"],"views":1069,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Azim-Premji-Foundation-Logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}