Corporate companies partner with Magic Bus NGO

Ansell India is a global leader in safety solutions. Ansell has partnered with Magic Bus to support holistic development of 1200 adolescents in Nalasopara, Mumbai.

Arisaig is supporting Magic Bus programme in Mumbai. Every year they are supporting 700 children in BPT (Bombay Port Trust) area for their holistic development. The programme aims for awareness of parents on health, education and gender equality.

Avery Dennison is supporting Magic Bus adolescent education programme for 2000 adolescents of 06th to 10th standard in 10 schools of seven villages in Rangangoan block, Pune.

Bachi Shoes is partnering with Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Ranipet, Tamil Nadu, for 2000 children. The programme aims at promoting a child’s right to play, foster gender equity, encourage children to go to school regularly and promote healthy living habits.

Ensure access to job opportunities for 11250 young first time job seekers from underprivileged households, graduated from tier II and III colleges of Pune and place them in Grey collar, entry level jobs after 10-12 session of basic skilling and handhold them for 3 months for their continuous learning and to ensure continuity in job.

Bank of America is partnering with Magic Bus to conduct the ‘Holistic Education Programme’ that aims to engage and empower 11200 adolescents with Digital and Life Skills in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi and Hyderabad. The main objective is to enhance the probability of the first generation adolescent learners from underprivileged households to complete their formal education with high level digital skills and life skills so that they can transit seamlessly to world of sustainable work.

To support youth, Bank of America partnered with Magic Bus in FY 21-22 to roll out the 'Connect With Work Programme' for young first time job seekers belonging to underserved communities from Chennai and Hyderabad. 13,600 youth were empowered and placed in jobs

Barclays has been a strategic partner enabling Magic Bus to scale the relief efforts across the country in our fight against Covid 19 pandemic. With support from Barclays Magic Bus has been able to create awareness on the pandemic and distribute dry ration to provide 18000 distressed families with 1.08 crore meals for 2 months across 14 states and 17 districts. Barclays and Magic Bus have partnered in the past to create a scalable programme that promoted Street20cricket into Magic Bus sports for development programming across Delhi and Mumbai. Further Magic Bus and Barclays worked together to deliver an employability training programme to young people. Our partnership with Barclays has stood the test of time and we continue to work together for a better future.

BC Web Wise has been the digital partner for Magic Bus since 2019. We were instrumental in the SEO-optimization of the website and the YouTube channel. Additionally, we made the website user friendly and reduced the bounce rate for the same. We sincerely hope that more organizations and individuals come forward to help children and young people break out of the cycle of poverty by . We support Magic Bus’ mission of moving children and young people from a childhood full of challenges to a life with meaningful livelihoods.

For nearly a decade, The BioUrja Group and its founders, Amit and Arpita Bhandari, have been integral to the mission of Magic Bus. Through their investment of time, energy and resources, they have built an enduring network of support for Magic Bus throughout the United States. In 2019, BioUrja Group partnered with Magic Bus to establish and sustain the Childhood to Livelihood program in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, improving the lives of 2000 children as they progress through the full seven year course of programming. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the BioUrja Group spans the globe, with operations in India, China, Singapore, and Mexico, as well as twenty five locations across the United States. The BioUrja Group supplies and trades physical commodities, including biofuels, petroleum products, crude oil, natural gas, electric power, metal alloys, grains, and animal feed products.

Bloomberg is partnering with Magic Bus to support its livelihood programme in Maharashtra for 450 young people.

BMW has been supporting Magic Bus Livelihood programme since 2015 with an aim to provide disadvantaged young people with the right training and support to enable them to identify and achieve their personal and professional goals and successfully move into sustained employment, further education, or job-based training. The programme aims to reach out to 4500 youth from marginalised communities across six locations in a period of three years namely Chennai, Chengelpet & Hyderabad, Delhi (Chattarpur & Badli) & Navi Mumbai (Juinagar).

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solution Private Limited is supporting Magic Bus' holistic development programme for 1200 children in Central Bangalore for three years.

Castrol is partnering with Magic Bus to implement high impact CSR project economically to stabilize 775 underprivileged households located in Paharpur, Kolkata that have been severely impacted by Covid-19 and get them pre Covid-19 levels over 18 months through Magic Bus Covid-19 Rapid Urban Recovery Program.

Credit Suisse is supporting Magic Bus Get into youth skilling programme for 700 young people from underprivileged community in Mumbai for three years.

Magic Bus has been undertaking Covid-19 humanitarian interventions in Bharuch district of Gujarat. One of the key initiatives is COVID-19 vaccination awareness roll out program in the 19 targeted villages of Bharuch district, Gujarat.

Our Roads Our Lives” programme is implemented by Magic Bus in partnership with Dewas Bhopal Corridor Private Limited. This programme is designed by Highway Concessions 1 that focuses on building road safe practices among population at risk of road accidents. Dewas Bhopal Corridor Private Limited works on this programme collaboratively with Magic Bus to leverage the community and life skills based approach to promote awareness, attitude and behaviour change. This programme is supporting 1200 children who are spread out in 15 villages along Dewas-Bhopal Corridor.

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, supports the implementation of Magic Bus’ programmes across India, helping teach children and their communities, on the importance of education, healthy living, and gender equality.

EXL chose Magic bus as a partner to build and implement a flagship initiative 'Education at Scale'. The initiative, which was launched in 2020, has been designed for students in grade 7-10 to learn the necessary skills that will position them as leaders in a digital world. The initiative has a sharp focus on life and employability skills, language capability, numerical ability, scientific acumen and innovation. Starting with Noida and Bangalore first, we expanded the reach to Pune, Chennai, Kochi, and Gurgaon covering 7,500 students.

Since 2009, the Felsted School, UK, has been supporting Magic Bus in Mumbai and the Magic Bus Centre for Learning & Development, near Karjat. The programme has become a strong element in their education and provides actual experience and understanding for their considerable fundraising efforts for Magic Bus. Felsted School is a major contributor to the continuing development of facilities at the Centre.

Football for Hope is partnering with Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Karnataka for 1712 children. The programme imparts valuable insights to children and their communities on the importance of education and hygiene.

Franklin Templeton is in partnership with Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Telangana for 1500 children. The programme teaches children the importance of education, healthy living and gender equity.

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. is partnering with Magic Bus to roll out 'implement high impact CSR project economically stabilize 750 underprivileged households located span across slums of N, S & ME ward of Mumbai who have been severely impacted by Covid-19 and get them pre Covid-19 levels over 18 months through Magic Bus Covid-19 Rapid Urban Recovery Programme.

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd is partnering with Magic Bus to roll out 'implement high impact CSR project economically stabilize 3000 underprivileged households located in Baddi, Pune, Jammu, Lucknow who have been severely impacted by Covid-19 and get them pre Covid-19 levels over 18 months through Magic Bus Covid-19 Rapid Urban Recovery Program.

The primary objective of this project is to "ensure access to job opportunities for 1500 young first time job seekers from underprivileged households, graduated from tier II and III colleges Chennai and place them in Grey collar, entry level jobs after 15-20 session of last mile employability skill, MS Excel and handhold them for 3 months for their continuous learning and to ensure continuity in job"

HDFC Bank is partnering with Magic Bus to support Disha, a 3 year integrated and collaborative education project covering 20000 adolescents in 188 Government schools across 158 villages of 22 districts in the states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra with the goal of enabling first generation adolescents from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and belonging to remote villages of India to complete formal education.. The project is a collaboration with the State Governments and our education partners to jointly address the twin domains of academic and holistic learning along with creating an enabling environment.

The project is building resilience, aspiration and improving the perceived self-efficacy of adolescents through an activity-based life skills programme across 188 Government schools. In the classroom, we focus on enhancing the learning outcomes in basic literacy and numeracy through improved teaching effectiveness. Experiential learning has been introduced through an innovative science Lab which helps develop critical thinking skills, scientific attitude, and improved science learning. The project also aims to bridge the gap between what we learn in school and what the world of work demands by equipping these young learners with ILO recommended employability skills. A key focus area for the project is on improving parental support and participation in school education through activating and strengthening of School Management Committees (SMCs).

The Hero MotoCorp funded Hamari Pari progamme was initiated to raise awareness of gender equality, the Right to Education (RTE) Act, nutrition and health, and to promote physical activity among children. Magic Bus’ innovative and effective approach and activity-based curriculum coupled with the reach of Hero MotoCorp Ltd. has led to the strengthening of the partnership considerably over the last two years. Between 2017 and 2018, the programme was further scaled up and is now reaching out to 5500 children and 1500 youth across the East and the North districts of Delhi.

Hexaware is a leading IT company working with the three pronged strategy of Automate everything, cloudify everything and transform customer experiences to fast track enterprises into the digital era. Hexaware has joined hands with Magic Bus in 2019 to support skilling of 550 youth in Mumbai, Chennai and Lonavala.

Hinduja Global Solutions is in partnership with Magic Bus to support 1800 young people in Mysore, Siliguri, and Guntur and 5000 children under its holistic development programme at Siliguri and Guntur.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. is supporting Magic Bus Livelihoods programme that will enable 800 young people from marginalised communities of four cities of Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, acquire the skills that will get them jobs with better career paths. The programme's goal is envisaged to create an ecosystem of empowerment by skilling young people to promote employment to ensure sustainable livelihoods. The technical skills, as well as soft skills imparted to the young people by NIIT Foundation, will enable them to pitch in for jobs in IT/ITES companies.

JSW Foundation is supporting ASPIRE adolescent education programme for 17,050 adolescents studying in 06th to 8th standard across 157 schools and 97 CLCs from underprivileged community in Kalmeshwar, Vasind, Dolvi, Palghar and Salav in Maharashtra, Vijaynagar in Karnataka, Salem in Tamil Nadu and Keonjhar in Odisha.

Magic Bus Sports for Excellence Programme is being implemented in Palghar District of Maharashtra in partnership with Larsen & Toubro Public Charitable Trust (LTPCT). Using a mentorship model and a Sport-based curriculum as innovative tool, the organisation engages at several levels- with children, young people, parents, community and the entire ecosystem at large - to ensure change that is sustained and owned. L&T is supporting Magic Bus since 2016 and this programme is supporting around 450 children in Talasari Block of Palghar District in Maharashtra.

Legrand joined hands with Magic Bus in its fight against Covid 19. Aligning with Legrand’s Migrant Support Mission we organized distribution of dry ration kits for 774 families and created awareness in the communities in Chennai and Bhiwandi.

Macquarie India supports Magic Bus’ Adolescent to Livelihood programme in Bhiwandi district of Maharashtra. The objective of the programme is to develop and enhance life skills, work-readiness, and employability skills of young people. Currently, in its third year, the programme aims to impact the lives of 2,650 adolescent and young people living in poverty.

Marchesa supports the implementation of Magic Bus’ holistic development programme for 2,400 children in Mankhurd, Mumbai. The programme aims at promoting education, gender equity and good health practices among children and the community.

Magic Bus with the support of Mettler Toledo is conducting an Adolescent Programme in Mumbai to engage and empower 2000 adolescents with Life Skills. Together we will enable adolescents from underserved households to complete their formal education. By equipping them with life skills, we can enable them to transition to the world of sustainable work seamlessly.

The Magic Bus Sports for Girls – GOODLUCKGIRLS program launched in collaboration with Mondelez-Cadbury Dairy Milk to target adolescent girls from underprivileged households and nurture their talent in sports primarily like Football, Kabaddi, Cricket, Volley ball etc. The programme has aimed to encourage and nurture sporting talent amongst the adolescent girls between 11 to 18 years.
The first phase of the program was launched in Dec 2021 targeted 15000 adolescent girls from Baddi (HP), Chandrapur (MH), Chennai (TN) and Kolkata (WB). After the success of the phase-1 program, second phase launched in Sep 2022 in same locations with the increased target outreach of 40000 adolescent girls.

In India, Magic Bus' partnership with Mondelez International started in the year 2014 under their community initiative Shubh Aarambh. The initiative is to address the development needs of children by promoting healthy and active lives. Magic Bus also partnered with Mondelez India Foods Private Limited on a youth skill development and livelihood project in Induri, Maharashtra and a holistic development project in Isnapur & Sricity. Magic Bus partnered with Cocoa Life as well for adolescent/children programme in Adimalli and West Godavari. Magic Bus partnered for Adolescent programmes in Mumbai and SCALE programme with Sports for Excellence in Chandrapur.

Nestlé India is partnering with Magic Bus in line with the Nestlé Healthy Kids Global Programme. The project reaches out to 2.06 lakh students, aged 10-17 years through government schools and communities across 19 states in India. The project intends to enhance the quality of life by creating awareness regarding nutrition, health and active living. Nestlé India began its journey with Magic Bus through its Employee Volunteering Programme (EVP) in 2014. Regular EVPs are conducted across India enabling Nestlé's Staff to develop a strong community connect with the communities it is supporting. Read more about Nestlé's Healthy Kids Programme.

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Oracle Corporation has partnered with Magic Bus India to support 5000 children in the holistic development programme across three locations – Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad (Ranga Reddy District).

Prudential is in partnership with Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Dahanu and Palgarh districts of Maharashtra. The programme benefits 1300 children.

Magic Bus is partnering with Qualcomm to implement its holistic development programme for 11800 children in Kalyan and Murbad Taluka, Mumbai and 7000 children in Bawana and Nerula Resettlement Colonies, Delhi.

Studiosus Foundation e.V is supporting Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The programme benefits 500 children in the Jalmahal community in Jaipur. The program is in the 8th year of implementation and one of the oldest programs.

Magic Bus India Foundation collaborated with Tata AIG to implement high impact CSR project for the young fresh graduates passed out from Tier II and III colleges by providing employability education and placement in grey collar entry level jobs in service sector base organization.

Tata is partnering with Magic Bus to implement its holistic development programme in Palgarh and Thane districts of Maharashtra. The programme benefits 1500 children in Palgarh and 3300 children in Thane.

Magic Bus is partnering to implement its holistic development programme in Bhandara district of Maharashtra & Joynagar. The programme benefits 3000 adolescent girls.

Tata Projects supports Sustainable Livelihood Program and Holistic School Education Program across 4 districts (Keonjhar, Gadchiroli, Rangareddy and Vzag) in 4 states (Odisha, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh). Sustainable Livelihood Program will help 1600 households recover their livelihood lost due to COVID19. Also, the Holistic School Education Program will ensure that 4800 adolescents (studying in 06th to 10th standard in Gov/gov aided schools) continue their education, reduce their chances of dropout and increase their interest in academics through experiential learning. The project is building resilience, aspiration and improving the perceived self-efficacy of adolescents through an activity-based life skills program.

Magic Bus and TESCO have joined forces to ensure livelihood for 900 young people from Bangalore, Karnataka. Our "Get Into" Youth Skilling Program builds ILO recommended 21st Century Life and Employability Skills using the platform of experiential learning and mentoring. We place these young people in aspiring jobs and as a result, they can double their family income and come out of poverty.

TOMS shares a special partnership with Magic Bus. For every shoe that TOMS sells, it donates a pair to Magic Bus children. TOMS has been a giving partner with us since 2013.

Vestas Wind India, a global leader in sustainable energy solutions, has partnered with Magic Bus for an Integrated Education Programme in Chennai, Tamil Nadu with the goal of enabling 2000 first generation adolescent learners from underprivileged households to complete their formal educationwith high level of life and employability skills.

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Magic Bus and Western Digital Corporation have joined forces to ensure livelihood for 200 young women from Bangalore. Our Young Women Skilling Program builds ILO recommended 21st Century Life and Employability Skills using the platform of experiential leaning and mentoring . We place young women in aspiring jobs and as a result they are able to double their family income. Young women go on to not just become financially independent but also become better positioned to ensure their children make right choices related to their education and livelihood, thus pulling an entire generation out of poverty.

The WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation (WPP India Foundation) is supporting Magic Bus, Hope For Children, and the Genesis Foundation, to help approximately 20,000 children and young people in Mumbai and Delhi achieve their full potential through holistic child development with a focus on education, livelihood, and health. The Hope Foundation focuses on improving the teaching-learning environment in schools through the use of innovative technology, while any child identified as suffering from critical health condition will be referred to the Genesis Foundation for medical support.