Wipro empowers companies to leverage technology in navigating disruption and building enterprise resiliency. Through this work, we help people realize their ideas, develop solutions, and achieve their goals, both individually and collectively.
Our dedication to the collective good is inspired by our corporate values -- known as the Spirit of Wipro -- which includes being passionate about clients’ success, treating each person with respect, being global and responsible, and displaying unyielding integrity in everything we do.
At Wipro, we firmly believe that business fuels our purpose and purpose fuels our business. In other words, Wipro believes that corporations are socioeconomic citizens, and their objectives must be congruent with society’s goals. This understanding manifests itself in thoughtful and deliberate initiatives that reflect the same level of rigor and strategic thinking as our business goals.
Commitment to social good
Wipro strives to help make our society more just, equitable, and sustainable. A great example of this commitment took place in 2000 when Azim Premji, Wipro’s founder, started the Azim Premji Foundation to improve primary education in India. The Foundation's work has since expanded to more than 40 districts across India, touching thousands of schools, teachers, and students.
In March 2019, Mr. Premji increased his donation of Wipro stock to the Foundation, bringing his total gift to $21 billion or 67% of Wipro’s outstanding stock, making it the sixth largest charitable foundation in the world.
In addition to our work in India, Wipro participates in social good programs in the US. Wipro’s initiatives for underprivileged communities in the US are channeled through Wipro Cares, a nonprofit trust that engages its employees on the issues of education, health, ecology, and disaster relief.
Since 2015, Wipro and First Book have partnered to distribute more than 300,000 books throughout the US and Canada. Book ownership and a print-rich environment are leading contributors to a child’s educational success, but for the 32 million children growing up in low-income families in the US, books are scarce. A recent study found that in one low-income neighborhood, there was only one book for more than 800 children, whereas in moderate income neighborhoods, there are 13 books for every child.
First Book, which has operations in both the US and Canada, works with formal and informal educators, serving children in need aged between 0 and 18 years in a wide range of settings – from schools, classrooms, summer school, parks, and recreational programs to health clinics, homeless shelters, faith-based programs, libraries, museums, summer food sites, and more. The organization supports more than one in four of the 1.3 million classrooms and programs that are serving children in need in the US alone.
In the words of Ms. Kyle Zimmer, President, Co-founder, and CEO of First Book, “Wipro and its employees have gone above and beyond to help bring First Book’s resources into the communities where they work and live. Thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of Wipro’s employees at reading events and at book distributions, along with Wipro’s financial support, tens of thousands of children will experience the transformative power of books, to fuel learning and unlock their futures. We are enormously grateful.”
In addition to First Book, Wipro has invested more than $10 million to create the Science Education Fellowship. This program partners with leading universities to train educators to build leadership skills and teaching excellence within STEM disciplines by leveraging research-validated expertise from selected universities and designing transformative instructional experiences for underfunded K-12 school districts in the surrounding areas.
The Wipro Science Education Fellowship began in 2012, and to date, Wipro has collaborated with eight universities and worked with more than 500 educators throughout more than 35 targeted school districts .Through partnerships with universities including Stanford, Missouri, South Florida, UNT Dallas, Mercy College, Montclair, Michigan State, and UMass Boston, Wipro SEF has collaborated with more than 30 public school districts to provide multi-year fellowships for more than 500 educators to develop their teaching and advocacy skills by 2020.
Response to COVID-19
In addition to the programs mentioned previously, Wipro is dedicated to meeting the moment in times of great need. The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a tremendous toll on our society, devastating lives and our global economy. Wipro and the Azim Premji Foundation have a long tradition of giving back and are using that experience to help lead the response to COVID-19 around the world.
As India went into lockdown at the end of March 2020, Wipro and the Azim Premji Foundation committed $148 million to provide immediate humanitarian aid, including medical equipment and the scaling up of medical facilities. In addition to deploying Wipro cafeterias to serve more than 1,000,000 meals to migrant workers and others in need, Wipro is using its technology skills and ecosystem to effect systemic change. After Wipro converted its Pune campus into a COVID-19 hospital, it found that vital information from various medical stakeholders was disorganized and hard to access. This led Wipro to build the Global Coalition for COVID-19 Medical Care (“GCCMC”), a knowledge-sharing platform created for doctors, dedicated to education, efficiency, and improved outcomes.
At Wipro, we embrace our unwavering commitment to our customers, adapting and developing new technologies and processes that people want, need, and may not even know about yet. We unleash our industrious and inventive talent base to provide outcome-driven solutions that not only meet but also exceed our customers’ expectations. We’re able to deliver all of this, thanks to our purpose-driven culture and commitment to social good, which gives more meaning to the work that we do and the success we can share.
