KPMG in India

1) Preparing study material for high school students: Over 65 of our volunteers extended their support to teachers at the NGO schools we support, by helping them develop study material for students of grade 12. Based on the teachers’ requirements, the volunteers prepared either short video tutorials or PowerPoint presentations with audio notes, covering several topics across subjects such as Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics, Physics and Chemistry. These interventions will ensure that our students at the NGO schools are not left behind due to delay in reopening of schools. 2) Preparing study material for students at rural government schools Over 90 employees volunteered to develop academic as well as non-academic digital study material for students of grades five to eight supported by eVidyaloka. It is a not-for-profit organisation that focuses on transforming the educational landscape of rural India by creating digital classrooms for children in remote villages. Content created will benefit around 18,000+ children of 236 schools across 10 states that eVidyaloka operates in. 3) Reading stories to students Reading is fundamental to building life-long success, so we believe it is critical to ensure childhood literacy. This helps students express themselves more confidently and improves their English comprehension. Under normal circumstances, our volunteers and their families would conduct recurring reading and learning sessions through the year to ensure the progress of students in primary grades is monitored regularly. Keeping in mind that this would not be possible during the nation-wide lockdown, over 40 employees volunteered to create short presentations and video clips of stories for students of the schools we work with. The underlying objective of creating these stories is to help parents keep their children engaged at home and also keep the mo

Our partners and directors continue to mentor Enactus teams from over 75 colleges across five cities. During the current nation-wide lockdown, mentoring sessions are being conducted through online collaboration platforms.  These sessions are proving to be very helpful as they allow the teams to reflect on their current processes, discuss improvements and work on potential problems. The teams will be able to implement their solutions when circumstances improve and they are able to resume their social projects.

Our HR teams from Mumbai and Bengaluru organised fun-filled visits to Funky Monkeys for students from our partner schools where the children played games, and enjoyed rock and rope climbing.