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As a part of its CSR initiative, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited launched Caring Hands in 2011. Caring Hands is one of its kind programme as the whole initiative is implemented by ICICI Lombard employees as a part of their employee volunteering activities. The Caring Hands initiative involves setting up eye check-up camps for students at municipal schools. Cross functional teams at various locations are formed by employees to handle the entire exercise. In order to ensure correct vision screening, the employees engage with ophthalmologists. As an initiative, familiarisation workshops are conducted with participating employees to help them understand the basics of eye screening. The employees take up the onus of the entire exercise, right from seeking permission from schools, engaging with ophthalmologists and managing the workshops on the day of the program. The employees also take up the responsibility of collating the vision data, working with the central coordinating team to obtain spectacles from the tied up spectacle provider and finally handing over the spectacles to the children through the school authorities. Apart from facilitating camaraderie, this program provides an opportunity for the employees to hone their leadership skills as they take up the onus of executing the entire project. The eye check-up camps though planned over two months are conducted across schools all over the country on a single day.

More than 110 camps were conducted and 3000+ employees volunteered for the activity. More than 35,000 students were screened during the camp and 6,500+ specs were distributed to the kids who were diagnosed with poor vision. Since 2011, the initiative has benefited over 3,50,000 children with more than 40,000 spectacles distributed.

Key Initiatives in FY2023

110

Camps were conducted across 100 schools in 40+ cities

35,000+

Students screened for eye check-up

3,000+

Employees participated

6,500+

Spectacles distributed

Cumulative impact since inception in FY2011

400,000+

Children screened

40,000+

Spectacles distributed

3.83

SRoI in FY2022

Alignment with Schedule VII activities: The Schedule VII (Section 135) of the Companies ACT 2013 specifies the list of activities that can be included by the company in its CSR policy. The below-mentioned table shows the alignments of the intervention with the approved activities by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Sub Section	Activities as per Schedule VII	Alignment
1	Eradicating hunger, poverty, and malnutrition, promoting health care including preventive health care and sanitation including contribution to the Swachh Bharat Kosh set up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking water.	Partially
2	Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocational skills, especially among children, women, the elderly, and the differently-abled, and livelihood enhancement projects	Partially

Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals:

Sustainable Development Goals	Sustainable Development Goals targets	Alignment with the SDGs
	Sustainable Development Goals targets 1.a Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmemes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.	Alignment with the SDGs The programmeme helps in reducing the cost spent on eye care treatment with the provision of cost-free treatment to adults as well as children.
	Sustainable Development Goals targets 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential healthcare services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all	Alignment with the SDGs Eye care health camps were set up in the community to provide quality eye care along with spectacles. These camps ensured the good health and well-being of the beneficiaries. which improved the overall efficiency of children as well as adults.
	Sustainable Development Goals targets 4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.	Alignment with the SDGs The provision of glasses to children with vision loss helped them have better access to quality education.

Alignment with National priorities:

Policy/Scheme/Mission	Priority	Alignment
National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment. (NPCB&VI)	Reduce the backlog of avoidable blindness through the identification and treatment of curable blindness at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, based on an assessment of the overall burden of visual impairment in the country. Develop and strengthen the strategy of NPCB for “Eye Health for All” and prevention of visual impairment; through the provision of comprehensive universal eye- care services and quality service delivery. To enhance community awareness of eye care and lay stress on preventive measures. Increase and expand research for the prevention of blindness and visual impairment. To secure the participation of Voluntary Organizations/Private Practitioners in delivering eye care.	In addition to children, this year the project included adult beneficiaries to provide eye care for all. NGOs played a major role in community mobilization and spreading awareness. Early check-ups of eye problems proved beneficial to stakeholders