Corporate Social Responsibility in India

Commitment to Social Responsibility

In India, we are committed to improving the world we live in by creating, supporting, and nurturing corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and initiatives that make a sustainable and measurable impact on communities that we serve.

The Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF) is a not-for-profit organization that deploys efforts in five critical areas:

Science and math education
Family safety and security
Housing and shelter
Sustainability
Humanitarian relief

Read our CSR policy here.

Watch this video to learn more about our CSR programs.

PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Over the years, we have brought many of our iconic, and highly-recognized global programs to India.

Working within the government’s guidelines and our framework, we have launched several initiatives in partnership with leading non-profit institutions of global repute. By applying the same rigor and business tools we use in the workplace, we build programs that deliver results we can quantify: one community, one home, one teacher, and one student at a time.

If you would like to partner with Honeywell, please write to India.CSR@honeywell.com

Honeywell Safe Schools

Creating a safe environment for children

This program empowers children to become change agents for building resilience in their communities. Implemented by SEEDS India, Honeywell Safe Schools takes a comprehensive approach to school safety. It seeks to ensure that children go to school without fear, remain safe in school, and return home safely. This is a pioneering school safety program that brings a tailor-made approach to address the unique issues of each school or location involving structural assessment of each school by engineers and architects; evaluation of risk perception; and examination of preparedness in the face of any natural or manmade disaster.

Between 2017 and 2022, the program will reach 83,000 children, 90,000 parents, and 2,900 teachers in 150 government schools across Delhi and Uttarakhand states.

Watch this video to learn more about Honeywell Safe Schools.

Safe Kids at Home

Spreading fire safety awareness

This research-based home safety program helps prevent and reduce burns and scalds among children under 14 years old in Pune, Maharashtra.

Implemented by Safe Kids Foundation India, the program uses cutting-edge, experiential, and fun educational tools to spread fire safety awareness. The impact does not stop at training children, but becomes a pivot for bringing citizens and civic agencies together to drive a safety culture.

Between 2015 to 2021, this program will impact 555,000 students and 450,000 parents.

Watch this video to learn more about Safe Kids at Home.

Honeywell Safe Water Network Initiative

Clean water for a better future

In collaboration with Safe Water Network, we are building 180 safe water stations in areas that suffer groundwater contamination, including from fluorides.

These water systems are owned, operated, and maintained by local communities; use world-class multi-stage reverse osmosis treatment system to remove contaminants and dissolved solids; deploy cutting-edge remote monitoring systems and process rigor to minimize downtime to less than two percent; and ensure engagement at all levels of the targeted community for social, financial, and environmental sustainability.

Cumulatively, these water stations will provide safe water access to more than 540,000 people in Telangana and Maharashtra.

Watch this video to learn more about this initiative.

Honeywell Science Experience

Promoting science education

Implemented by Agastya International Foundation, Honeywell Science Experience is a hands-on science education program for economically disadvantaged children and teachers.

Designed to cultivate curiosity, creativity, and leadership among students, the program includes innovative pedagogy and learning techniques for students and teachers. Through its uniquely scalable, hands-on teaching-learning methods, the program aims to develop creative-thinking and problem-solving abilities in children, foster child and teacher participation in experiential learning, and boost science education.

Through 25 unique experiential science centers, 35 mobile labs, and 4,600 student mentors in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Madurai, Hyderabad, Mysore and Delhi-NCR, the program will benefits 142,000 students and 783 teachers.

Watch this video to learn more about Honeywell Science Experience.

Honeywell Centre for Advancing Girls in Science

Promoting STEM education and building future women leaders

Implemented by Avasara Leadership Institute, Honeywell Centre for Advancing Girls in Science is a transformative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program for bright, young girls in middle and high school in Pune.

The program will empower 500 Avasara students with an experiential, project-based science curriculum. The program seeks to inculcate critical thinking and problem-solving mindsets among girls 11-18 years of age. Additionally, the center will support 12,000 students from government and low-budget schools across Pune through Young Scientist STEM camps.

The school block features classrooms, laboratories, and dormitories. It is built on sustainability principles such as passive heating and cooling, solar panels for off-grid power supply, waste and water recycling, and extensive use of fly ash bricks and recycled material.

The program aims to set the bar for girls’ education in the country through a rigorous academic curriculum combined with a strong emphasis on leadership that will empower students to lead lives of distinction and impact.

Watch this video to learn more about Honeywell Centre for Advancing Girls in Science.

Honeywell SID-IISc partner to incubate deep science projects

Promoting startups with outcomes for social impact

Honeywell has partnered with the Society of Innovation and Development (SID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. This partnership with SID takes our Honeywell’s focus on STEM one step further into deep science.

Honeywell supports allows us to support technology incubation in areas that are non-core to Honeywell, but critical for the world. The partnership with SID is not based on commercial interests. It is driven by a vision to help create technologies that will solve large, societal problems. Honeywell funds are pivoted to solve for COVID-19, including building a new class of eco-friendly specialty fluorescent dyes and rapid point of care diagnostics test for use in low resource settings.