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Healthcare
Tata Motors actively promotes healthcare both at the
national and plant levels. A partnership with Smile
Train empowers surgeons to provide free corrective
surgery for children with cleft lip and palette
deformities. Further, AIDS awareness campaigns were
conducted for truck drivers. Preventive and curative
healthcare facilities are provided through small
Mobile Health Clinics, awareness camps, hospitals
and clinics. Besides, rural health workers are trained
to act as foot doctors to cure minor ailments in their
allocated areas.
The collaboration between Land Rover UK and the
British Red Cross is part of themajor global partnership
between Land Rover and the International Federation
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It
involves
Land Rover supporting national Red
Cross societies in 15 countries,
with each country
adopting a priority programme. To celebrate the
production of the one millionth Discovery, Land Rover
began a charitable 50-day journey from Birmingham
to Beijing, aiming to raise £1,000,000 for the IFRC.
This effort is Land Rover's most ambitious fundraising
project to date and supports a much-needed water
and sanitation project in Uganda.
Tata Motors Thailand also extended vehicular
support to raise funds for helping the Tsunami
and Earthquake victims of Japan.
Tata Motors
Thailand provided its Nano, Super Ace City Giant and
Xenon vehicles to carry supplies for runners in the
“Emporium & Punky Runners: Run for Japan” charity
activity to raise funds to help people stricken by the
recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Employee volunteers of Tata Daewoo have extended
their support to children shelters. Volunteers are
mainly engaged in free inspection of computers in
children shelters, helped in soup kitchens, restored
work in flooded areas, and organised blood donation
camps.
The Land Rover ‘Go Beyond’ Bursary, run by the Royal
Geographical Society on behalf of Land Rover, offers
funding and the use of a 110 Defender vehicle. The
award is aimed at those who want to take a journey
beyond their limits and boundaries, that offers
challenges for the team and for which a Land Rover
Defender 110 is an integral part of the expedition.
Journey of Discovery benefiting Ugandan women
‘Go Beyond’ Bursary
Partnering with the community
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