MANGALORE: Child Rights and You (CRY) and city-based Prajna Counselling Centre emerged major beneficiaries of corporate social responsibility (CSR)programmes of PNB MetLife with support from city-based Karnataka Bank Ltd on Tuesday. The programme will focus on education and growth of underprivileged children in the state and expected to touch lives of 12,000 such children in Raichur (through CRY) and Dakshina Kannada (Prajna) districts.
P Jayarama Bhat, MD, Karnataka Bank, Christopher Townsend, president (Asia), MetLife, Mahabaleshwara M S, CGM, Karnataka Bank and Tarun Chugh, managing director and chief executive officer, PNBMet Life launched the CSR programme in the presence of Suma Ravi, regional director (South), CRY, and Hilda Rayappan, director, Prajna Counselling Centre here.
Bhat said the launch of the CSR programme in Karnataka where the bank has 60% of its presence, is significant. "We appreciate and support their endeavor to educate and develop underprivileged children in Karnataka. We both aim to work together to make a difference in the lives of communities we operate in," he added.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/NGOs-get-funding-to-extends-their-activities/articleshow/39798106.cms
P Jayarama Bhat, MD, Karnataka Bank, Christopher Townsend, president (Asia), MetLife, Mahabaleshwara M S, CGM, Karnataka Bank and Tarun Chugh, managing director and chief executive officer, PNBMet Life launched the CSR programme in the presence of Suma Ravi, regional director (South), CRY, and Hilda Rayappan, director, Prajna Counselling Centre here.
Bhat said the launch of the CSR programme in Karnataka where the bank has 60% of its presence, is significant. "We appreciate and support their endeavor to educate and develop underprivileged children in Karnataka. We both aim to work together to make a difference in the lives of communities we operate in," he added.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/NGOs-get-funding-to-extends-their-activities/articleshow/39798106.cms
