Exploring the Community Engagement Journey: Juniper Networks India Excellence Centre

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0:05 Juniper started the CSR initiatives in

0:07 2015 16 here and what we start in the

0:10 small way today we have 12 projects

0:12 across the various parts of Karnataka

0:14 tamad and Maharashtra spanning four

0:17 different

0:18 themes uh namely the education Community

0:21 Health environment livelihood and skill

0:25 development and we touch more than

0:27 10,000 lives across the various ini it

0:30 is in

0:34 currently Hope Foundation began its work

0:36 in 1991 the approach we take is a cradle

0:39 to Career

0:41 approach it is designed to help children

0:43 complete School join College acquire an

0:46 employable skill and then find a

0:50 job the asak kir project is not just a

0:54 project run by one or more

0:56 NOS it's a project where the senior

0:59 leadership of juniper the employees of

1:02 juniper and all the implementing

1:04 partners are working together

1:06 consistently throughout the

1:08 year and so best practices keep getting

1:11 strengthened and our experiences teach

1:14 us you know what we can do even better

1:17 in the future so the constant engagement

1:20 with the community with the CSR team and

1:22 Juniper and so many people at multiple

1:24 levels is what strengthens the program

1:27 and allows the vision to come to life

1:31 and so that's something that's really

1:33 exciting because it's not just a plan

1:35 that was uh meaningful on paper but it's

1:38 a plan that has come to life on the

1:40 ground and is changing lives of children

1:44 men and women as it must be

1:50 done the whole idea and the vision with

1:52 which we started Jagr was that uh uh we

1:55 should work with people and be part of

1:58 their struggle to improve their life

2:00 lives jagriti and

2:02 Juniper have developed a very good

2:05 partnership and uh because of this

2:08 support from jiper uh Jag's work at

2:12 grassroot level has really shown much

2:14 better Improvement and also the

2:16 participation of the women because of

2:19 this Juniper support jagriti has been

2:21 has been doing very good work and many

2:24 women have now uh come out of the uh

2:28 clutches of poverty and able to read a

2:30 much more independent life especially

2:33 those who have taken up cows and those

2:35 who have taken up goats as their

2:36 economic program and in addition through

2:40 Juniper support uh jagriti has also

2:43 identified places where it can improve

2:46 its quality of goods and thus seek a

2:49 better market and Jag are also involved

2:51 in other uh production one of them is uh

2:55 Jagger production and other uh needed

2:58 condiments which are of so all these are

3:01 being used jiper resources are being

3:03 used for the work of jagti team members

3:06 sahas is a 22y old NGO founded in 2001

3:09 in Bangalore uh we work on issues around

3:12 solid base Management on the principles

3:14 of circular

3:16 economies Juniper through CSR support

3:18 had been working in orali panchayat in

3:21 Karnataka from 2016 as part of their

3:24 Asha kirina project uh they were

3:26 focusing largely on health and education

3:29 uh but but in 2018 they realized that

3:31 they also need to add Solid Waste

3:33 Management to their interventions and

3:36 this is when uh Juniper reached out to

3:38 sahas because they knew about our work

3:41 in bellari and uh we jointly started

3:44 working from August 2018 to set up

3:47 sustainable and holistic Solid Waste

3:49 Management Systems in the orali gr

3:52 panchayat Juniper has been uh one of our

3:55 most understanding and supportive uh CSR

3:58 partners the team was always there for

4:01 us when we uh face challenges and the

4:04 best part about this partnership has

4:06 been the flexibility that the Juniper

4:08 team has been able to give us uh because

4:11 working on Waste Management on

4:13 behavioral change and uh Wicked social

4:17 issues is not easy and that is where the

4:20 support uh from Partners like Juniper

4:22 Networks is really appreciated the

4:25 association of people with a disability

4:26 is an NGO started in the year 195 59

4:30 over the last 64 years our mission has

4:33 never wavered to give every person with

4:35 a disability the right to live a life

4:37 with dignity and

4:40 respect leaving no one behind is the

4:44 theme of APD we actually wanted to

4:46 ensure that people from the rural

4:48 geographies coming from the poorest of

4:49 the poor need to be served is a vision

4:52 and mission of APD Juniper actually

4:55 shares and aligns to the vision mission

4:57 of APD and we both together join hands

5:00 together to transform the lives of

5:02 people from the rural geographies to get

5:05 them transformative changes in terms of

5:08 enabling equiping and empowering people

5:10 with disabilities in the rural L

5:14 mile Swami Vivekananda youth movement

5:17 started in 1984 by a group of medical

5:22 which is led by Dr R balas

5:25 suban SV ym along with juniper will

5:28 facilitate in realizing localization of

5:31 sustainable development goals in the

5:33 Thematic area of poverty-free and

5:36 enhanced lihood panchayat healthy

5:39 Villages and water sufficient Village in

5:42 uro har as well as J

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5:49 panchayat sambba Foundation was started

5:52 about 17 years ago in 2006 jifa has been

5:56 a strong uh supporter for us and has

5:59 helped us to achieve our goals towards

6:01 making youth uh independent and for us

6:05 independence is both Financial

6:07 Independence economic independence and

6:09 digital Independence so with juniper we

6:11 work with the electrician as a job

6:14 category but also other job categories

6:17 that we are looking to expand into we

6:19 also have a strong relationship with

6:21 juniper in the sense that uh we do

6:23 discuss our problems as an organization

6:27 and what are the issues that not for

6:29 profits have and how can we actually

6:31 marry that with the goals of uh a

6:34 corporate like

6:37 Juniper for us Juniper more than being a

6:39 donor is a partner uh to ensure that we

6:43 have improved outcomes for young people

6:46 and their families as well as the

6:47 neighborhood and communities in which

6:49 they live I think that's the uh

6:52 long-term partnership we foresee uh with

6:55 junipa as we uh go forward so we are

6:58 covering 8 SG calls of United Nations 28

7:02 sdg calls so we'll be going in deep in

7:05 those areas we will not take up new

7:06 things we'll expand to new regions to

7:09 cover more people that's our plan

7:11 wherever possible we are engaging the

7:13 employees effectively to see how

7:15 effectively they can get involved in

7:16 their CSR

7:22 activities