Making timely and quality eye care services accessible and affordable to underserved infants

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Promoting equity, merit and inclusion by helping beneficiaries acquire knowledge

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Tech4All - Empowering persons with disabilities and women for tech careers

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LATEST

Yearbook

Announcing the launch of our Yearbook 2021/22 – Together, Better.

Award

Cognizant Foundation’s ‘Preventing Childhood Blindness’ initiative selected as the winner in the ‘Healthcare (Large)’ category of the 7th CSR Impact Awards.

Press

Sharing the Foundation’s work and journey so far

Technology solution in healthcare

Post-discharge care of new-born

Technology solution for temperature monitoring of high-risk new-born babies post-discharge for a continuum of care to avert postnatal complications.

Digital learning and STEM

Building teachers capacity in STEM

Building capacity of teachers to integrate digital methods and resources in education and leverage technology to increase student engagement.

Skilling persons with disabilities

“I feel confident now, and I’m able to financially support my family.”

Manohar
Trainee, Cheshire Disability Trust

Areas Of Work

Our core focus is inclusion to promote equity. Our interventions have a strong focus on child and women welfare, gender equality, prevention of disability and supporting persons with disability.

HEALTHCARE

On a mission to bring quality healthcare services within reach

Preventing Avoidable Blindness

10 States
Promoting Women And Child Health

7 States
Capacity Building in Healthcare

6 States

EDUCATION

On a mission to enable equal access to quality education

Scholarships For Higher Education

PAN India
Capacity Building In School Education

8 States
Promoting Vocational Technical Education

7 States

LIVELIHOOD

On a mission to skill the underserved

Skilling Undeserved Youth

7 States
Skilling Persons With Disabilities

4 States
Skilling Women

4 States

"The strong belief that success is a function of the value an enterprise creates for its stakeholders, including the communities in which it operates, has been the driving force behind the Foundation’s commitment to fostering a sustainable future and improving lives."

- Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman, Cognizant Foundation & Chairman & Managing Director, Cognizant India

"The timely and efficient implementation of programmes … is not a little due to the robust partner ecosystem so carefully developed and maintained by the Foundation’s hard-working secretariat."

- K. Balaji, Director, Cognizant Foundation

"Cognizant Foundation has started making its presence felt in high-visibility locales like the National Capital Region."

- N. R. Krishnan, IAS (Retd.), Director, Cognizant Foundation

"Nature has its inimical way of teaching us lessons for the future. We are challenged to rise to the occasion, and we will."

- Dr. Nandini Rangaswamy, Director, Cognizant Foundation

Our Journey

From its humble beginnings in 2005, Cognizant Foundation has come a long way in the last 15 years

10 States

300+ NGO partners

500+ Projects