Employee led CSR initiatives

CSR ESOP Initiatives

Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd encourages employees to participate in various interventions with focus area as Education and Livelihood, Healthcare, Environment, Disaster Management or any other category as mentioned under Schedule VII directly or in collaboration with implementing partners to drive positive change amongst the communities.

COVID-19 Related Community Relief Efforts

In response to the unprecedented health crisis due to COVID-19, Mahindra Holidays has been supporting communities across most resort locations. This includes distribution of dry ration and essential hygiene kits to the needy and poor, daily wagers, migrant labour and other groups recommended by the local authorities. Through these relief efforts, we have reached out to over 13,000 individuals. In addition, the Company has been assisting frontline health workers and medical staff through provisioning of sanitizers and protective equipment such as masks, personal protective equipment (PPE) kits and face shields.

Building homes for the homeless

Employees from our Mumbai and Chennai corporate office volunteered for Habitat for Humanity’s ‘Volunteer Build’ activity at a village near Karjat and a village near Pavunjur, Chennai. Employees helped the local masons with brick-laying and painting.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

In support of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan initiative of the Government of India, we help in the cleanliness of public places around our resorts and branches. Over 1400 MHRIL employees put in over 3,400 hours in cleanliness initiatives that were organized around our resorts, neighboring schools, beaches, highways, etc.

Disaster Relief

Our employees at Kerala & Kodagu went out of their way to provide end-to-end support to those individuals affected by the floods in 2018. We can proudly say that 139 employees put in 20,498 hours of volunteering over 2,504 days towards the disaster relief initiatives across our resorts.

Mission S.M.I.L.E.S

Club Mahindra launched an annual initiative - Mission S.M.I.L.E.S. (Social Movement to Improve Life Experiences) under its Employee Social Options Program (ESOP). Under this program, employees will devote their time and skills towards various initiatives focusing on education, health and environment, in order to drive a positive change in across all sections of the community. To begin with, 180 employees & Club Mahindra members devoted a full working day to support the development of infrastructure at Shree Ganesh Vidya Mandir School in Dharavi, Mumbai. Employees participated in activities like wall painting, mural painting, beautifying the school premises, bench refurbishing and making creative visual learning charts for the school.