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Awards
This year five of our employees were chosen winners
of the prestigious global Monsanto Master Sales Award,
2005. The Monsanto Master Sales Award is based on
several key factors including exceptional performance
in the current year, superior sustained performance
over several years and the challenges faced and overcome
to achieve outstanding results.
Two employees were also chosen for the Pledge Awards,
which represent the highest honor that Monsanto can
give its people for exhibiting Pledge behaviors while
creating value for Monsanto, its stakeholders and
the environment.
CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
Monsanto has a long history of charitable
programs and corporate social responsibility. In India,
Monsanto India Limited and the Monsanto Fund support
a variety of projects in three primary areas: Nutrition
Improvement, Natural Disasters and Community Development.
Monsanto Fund
Monsanto Fund is the philanthropic arm
of the Monsanto Company, which was established in
1964. The philanthropic goal has been to bridge the
gap between people's needs and their available resources.
The International Health Organization's
(IHO) project on "Improving Nutritional Well-Being
Through Agriculture in Jharkhand" is a Monsanto Fund
approved project.
Monsanto Fund awarded
IHO a grant of USD 57,200 (Rs. 0.25 crores) to implement
agricultural programs to enhance the nutritional status
of women and children and to complement the ongoing
watershed management project in the rural city of
Ranchi in Jharkhand.
 ‘Shoes
for Hope', the 2nd project, received a Monsanto Fund
grant of USD 39,200 (Rs 0.17 Crores). The mission
of 'Shoes For Hope' is to involve USA and Indian businesses
to help eradicate leprosy and its related effects
in India and to make a positive contribution to people
afflicted with it.
'Shoes For Hope' is
currently working with 24 leper colonies in and around
Chennai, and almost 6,000 people afflicted with leprosy
and their families are receiving services from this
effort.
 In
2005, the Monsanto Fund entered into a project with
the Nandi Foundation called “Revitalising Education.”
This is a 'in school' initiative, which targets to
improve the school infrastructure and to run Creative
Learning Centers (CLCs) in the 10 villages of Mahabubnagar
district in Andhra Pradesh. Out of school children
in the age group of 10-14 years are first brought
to the CLCs before they are admitted into the regular
schooling system.
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