Markets & Economy 2023: 360 Degree Awards
United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have our annual fundraising event, Markets & Economy. In the 12th edition of our annual fundraiser, we […]
Empowering Transgender Communities in Chennai: Our Journey and Impact
United Way of Chennai upholds the values of social inclusion and diversity. In the journey that we have embarked with our CSR partners, we have been actively working with the transgender communities across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala & Pondicherry on various Transgender Livelihood Programs. Our focus lies in ensuring livelihood enhancement for the […]
Why This Is India’s Decade
Why This Is India’s Decade | Speech by Ridham Desai | Markets & Economy 2023 United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have our […]
India: A Reformed Agenda for 2047
India: A Reformed Agenda for 2047 | Speech by Sanjeev Sanyal | Markets & Economy 2023 United Way of Chennai is a non-profit entity working in the verticals of education, health, environment, livelihood, and sustainable energy. We join hands with CSR partners in working for various causes. Apart from our engagement with corporates, we have […]
India’s Techade – Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth | Markets & Economy 2023
The 12th edition of Markets & Economy 2023, an annual fundraising event of United Way of Chennai, a non-profit, focused on discussing ‘India’s Techade – Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth’ with eminent speakers from the fields of investment, banking, digital education, healthcare, and technology. It was organized on 17th February 2023 at ITC Grand Chola, […]
Setting up a E-Sevai centre at Kanyakumari
The COVID Express, an initiative of United Way of Chennai, assists the families who have lost their breadwinner to COVID -19. We have helped 118 families to regain strength and livelihood through their struggle and this journey has been quite emotional for us. As part of this initiative, we assisted two women entrepreneurs from Kanyakumari […]
Bringing Children Back to School after COVID19
When the pandemic hit, we made our homes a workplace, the living rooms became classrooms and somewhere between the pandemic’s chaos we lost the sense of place. Today we get back to work, we return to school. Along with our partner HSBC over a span of one-month UWC distributed 6457 school kits that consist of […]
Menstrual Hygiene and Awareness
As part of our Acsys Rural health initiative, UWC partnered with Iniya Udiayam Trust to reach the rural pockets of Kanchipuram to initiate conversations around menstruation and break the stigma and taboos around it. In our recent visit, 110 enthusiastic women of Perunagar, Kanchipuram district participated in a #MenstrualHealth awareness program. The session covered various […]
Markets and Economy 2022
Each year for our annual Markets and Economy, we try to bring in eminent speakers from different verticals across the country. While budgets are being discussed, markets are explored, a path for the way forward is laid, this year we had the opportunity to host Mr. N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons. Despite his busy […]
Volunteering For The Soul
“There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” John Holmes A Decade of Change Through the years, United Way Chennai has turned itself synonymous with direct impact, ground-level interventions, and lasting measures to sustain it. However, these are mere by-products that have emerged from our undivided focus on creating […]
