In its annual Volunteer Excellence Awards, IBM is honouring three Indian teams for their unique effort in making education more accessible during the epidemic and for being inventive in their community volunteering during 2020

A ten-person team providing remote mentoring for females, a 43-member team recording audiobooks for visually challenged learners, and a 12-person team conducting webinars for technology students to sustain education projects during Covid-19 lockdowns are among some of the initiatives and people being recognised. The IBM teams recognised from India are part of a global group of 15 IBM volunteers or winning teams from 25 countries. Each of the winning organisations will receive a $10,000 grant from IBM to support the process started by the IBM volunteers.

“The Volunteer Excellence Awards honours people who have gone above and beyond in their roles as volunteers. I am honoured that three of our teams were chosen this year, which is a testimonial to our volunteers’ unselfish dedication to societal change. During the second wave, approximately 2000 IBM volunteers are working around the clock to assist IBM employees, their families, and the community. We’ve organised volunteer squads to handle requests for hospital beds, ICUs, oxygen, ambulances, and medications, among other things, and direct them to confirmed and accessible resources. Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam are among the winners this year.

Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM, stated that the company is using its voice and influence to rally global support to assist India in combating the second wave of Covid-19, and that the company has asked its global employees to channel donations through United Way of India to reach the ground level. “I joined a group of U.S. business leaders this weekend in asking the Biden administration to speed up help. We’re also collaborating with the US and Indian governments, as well as the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, the Business Roundtable, and the US-India Business Council, all of which are part of the US Chamber of Commerce, to speed up crucial help “Employees received an email from Krishna.

In India, IBM employs approximately 100,000 people who serve both local customers like Bharti Aitel and Vodafone India as well as providing worldwide services. According to him, IBM has provided funding for 2,500 oxygen concentrators and is collaborating with local partners to provide emergency hospital beds in the communities where its employees live and work. “As IBMers, we share a common set of values. Our thoughts are with the people of India and others around the world who are suffering the most as a result of this global health crisis. I am hopeful that the situation will improve. We will continue to take robust and concerted action to support IBMers in India and other regions of the world where Covid is booming “Krishna is a Hindu deity.

 

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