National: Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of Honeywell in India, is celebrating the completion of ten transformative years of driving sustainable growth and community empowerment across the country. Since its inception in 2014, HHSIF has touched the lives of more than 66 lakh beneficiaries across 21 States—including Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, among others. Its initiatives focus on three core areas: education, skilling, and research; holistic and sustainable community development; and humanitarian relief.
Its clean energy initiatives highlight Honeywell’s commitment to accelerating sustainable development in rural geographies, and its focus on education and skills training is supporting the growth of India’s emerging engineering and technology talent. These initiatives underscore Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio to three compelling megatrends, including automation and the energy transition.
HHSIF’s tenth anniversary was celebrated through ‘Joy of Giving’—a month-long initiative of volunteering activities for Honeywell employees, communities, and partners that builds on Honeywell’s long-term volunteering commitment. In the last ten years, Honeywell employees in India have contributed more than 12,000 hours to activities such as plantation drives, maintenance work for rural housing, and STEM education mentoring.
Advancing Education, Supporting Communities, and Delivering Humanitarian Relief
HHSIF has made significant progress in promoting education, skill development, and research for over 1.3 million beneficiaries. Through various courses and programs, more than 800,000 students have benefited from STEM education initiatives. Additionally, over 22,000 young people have been trained in advanced technical skills. Notably, 456 girls from underprivileged backgrounds received high-quality education, and more than 40 STEM-based start-ups—primarily led by women and individuals from underrepresented communities—obtained seed funding.
In sustainable community development, the not-for-profit programme has helped more than 52 lakh individuals living in rural communities to gain access to better healthcare facilities, 96,000 to acquire more sustainable livelihoods, and more than 56,000 to adopt sustainable farming practices. Additionally, 1.99 lakh trees were planted under HHSIF’s ‘PlantTheFuture’ campaign, which was started in 2022 and aims to plant and nurture more than one million saplings across ten Indian cities over ten years.
The organisation has also left a mark in humanitarian relief and has played an integral role in providing essential supplies to more than 9,950 victims of the Himachal Pradesh floods and mitigating the COVID-19 crisis, where it established ten PSA plants, two critical and five COVID care centres, and distributed oxygen concentrators, PPE kits, N95 respirators, and ventilators across the facilities.
To deliver its programme across these core areas, Honeywell has partnered with nine prominent organisations as part of its HHSIF programme. These include Avasara Academy, ICT Academy, FSID-IISc, Swades Foundation, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), Communitree, Give Me Trees (GMT), Sewa International, and Americares India Foundation.
