Newgen, in partnership with I Am wellbeing, a mental health organization, organized a personality development program for its NDDP students. The focus of this program is to make students resilient and help them develop an attitude to adapt and navigate through the changing environment. The program covers over 1,400 NDDP and NDDP alumni through monthly sessions.
Honing life skills and peer leadership development have been the themes of the program. The sessions were able to build physical, emotional, and social well-being for the students. To date, ten monthly sessions have been conducted on peer leadership development with students of classes 9 to 12.
Topics covered under this initiative include mental health, erratic behavior, the art of listening, effective communication, connection building, crisis management, coping skills, emotion tapping, and mastering art-based tools. Quarterly life skills development sessions on menstrual hygiene, nutrition, emotions and relationship building were also conducted for classes 7 to 12.
Impact
The initiatives had a positive influence on the students, thanks to the various aspects that were touched upon through the sessions such as enhanced mental health awareness, development of resilience skills, ability to understand emotions, adequate expression and better control of emotions. These factors supported in overall improvement of the students and helped them achieve success in their personal and academic life.
Awards
- Newgen CSR for its innovative initiatives in the sector of education has been recognized on national and international level with ‘Responsible Business Awards for Best CSR Practices in Digital Education’,
- ‘CMO Asia’s Best CSR Practices-Digital Education’ and ‘
- CSR Universe Social Impact Awards 2022-Education’.
- Mahatma Awards for providing quality education to the less privileged children
- National Awards for Excellence in CSR & Sustainability in the category – Best CSR Impact Initiative.
Engagement with Volunteers
Newgen employees from pan-India and external volunteers join various CSR activities, virtually and physically, to engage with the CSR beneficiaries and encourage them. They act as role models, judges, speakers, and audiences, throughout the year in various competitions, sessions, and special day celebrations.
The career- counseling sessions on different sectors are attended by professionals who join as role models and share their experience about the sector, the real-time work requirements, and other related information. Professionals like social workers, bankers, teachers, chartered accountants, secretaries, web designers, police and ex-army officers, company secretaries, admin managers, and human resource personnel have volunteered as role models for various career counselling sessions.