The KP Sanghvi Group’s Trusts have been at the forefront of humanitarian efforts whatever the emergency, be it the Kargil War, the Kutch earthquake or the Orissa Floods. Jointly with local civil administrations they have built hospitals, roads, damns, bridges. They have also generously donated towards various hospitals, ambulances, mobile medical clinics visiting rural villages and public drinking water facilities to name a few.

The Trusts have also built Shree Pavapuri Tirth Dham in the Rajasthan State, North India. The development comprises a Jain Tirth (Temple complex) occupying 3,100,00 sq ft and the Jeev Raksha Kendra (Animal Welfare Centre) which provides shelter to over 5,000 stray cattle. Visiting Shree Pavapuri Tirth Dham helps thousands of devotees who come seeking divine intervention in their lives, and gives them the opportunity to find peace with themselves.

At Jeev Raksha Kendra mostly injured, old, retired and rescued cows and buffaloes, live in a peaceful and loving atmosphere. They are well fed and looked after with the help of local people who are employed by the Trust. Veterinary doctors residing at the campus, treat not only the cattle on the premises but also from the nearby villages. Water tanks and dams have also been constructed to ensure an ample supply of water during dry spells and fruit bearing trees have been planted for birds. As the Trust believes in reverence for all life it also helps in setting up new animal shelters and generously donates to animals welfare in times of natural calamity.

We are known for creating products that add a sparkle to people’s lives, but we are also dedicated to bringing a smile to those in need. Our philanthropic efforts are extended to helping communities, supporting people affected by natural catastrophes and disasters, helping disadvantaged children and actively encouraging education-all on a global platform.

For many years now, Gold Star Diamond (formally known as RT Diamond) has invested in programs for good quality education that help to build a strong and diverse workforce and community in India & aboard. In India, we have built and financed three institutions: Tribhovandas Pethabhai pr-primary and secondary schools and Ratilal Tribhovandas Sha Jain Women’s School all located in Malan Palanpur, Gujarat. (see photos)

In the US, we reach out to support children whose lives been devastated by life-threatening illness and/or abuse and neglect through the initiative ‘Jewelers for Children’.

We donate generously to people affected by natural disasters- as we did to earthquake victims in Latur, deluge victims in Mumbai and Surat and the bomb-blast victims in Mumbai.

Apart from the above, we also believe in the idiom Charity begins at home & we encourage our employees to participate in activities such as health fair(Swashtya Mela); Blood Donation Camp, Consumer Fair (Grahak MEla- where the white collar employees are encouraged to get into cottage industry for better life style & independence to their other family members). We have created the Gold Star Trust that helps employees, society & other needy at large with financial aids.

Shari Laljibhai Patel the Chairman of Dharmanandan Diamonds Pvt Ltd. Has donated a very costly and big plot of land to Swaminarayan Gurukul, Surat, during 1992 for Religious and Educational activities. The students from the middle and poor class families are admitted in the high school at very nominal fees. At the same time the religions priest preach the people and the young generation for maintaining a good character and quality of life.

Dharmanandan Clinic Surat

Dharmanandan charitable trust has started the clinic at front-end of factory from the day factory started. This clinic serves free medical checkups both employee & his family with free medicines and treatments. Clinic also serves to public with only Rs 5 as checkup fees, and medicine, treatments; special requirement for hospitalized is free even today. The Dharmanandan will spend this entire cost. There is also special medical camp also carried by Dharmanandan both public & employees.

Voluntary Blood Donation Camp

A voluntary Blood Donation Camp was organized by Dharmanandan Diamonds Private Ltd. At Gotalawadi, Katargam Surat on 25^th July 2007 from 9:00am to 2:00pm. A Team of Medical and Para-Medical Staff from LOKSAMARPAN BLOOD BANK, Varachha, Surat was invited to collect the blood. Our Chairman Mr. Laljibhai Patel was the first donor to donate his blood after lighting the lamp and giving his inaugural speech.

The employees were very enthusiastic to donate the blood voluntary; hence within short span of 4 hours 710 employees donated the blood. Many more employees were willing to donate the blood, but the Blood Bank had limitations of storage facilities.

The employees are well aware about the Blood Donation Activities and they are ever ready to donate the blood as and when required.

Yoga Camp for the General Public

Our Chairman Mr. Laljibhai Patel is taking active part for the activities concerned with the General Health and Welfare of the Society. Hence A YOGA Camp was organized from March 1^st 2008 to March 10^th 2008 at Swaminarayan Ground at Surat from 5:00am to 8:30am. The well Trained Yoga Teachers from BABA RAMDEVJI’S organization are invited to train the General Public irrespective of caste and religion. More than 5000 people from city and surrounding areas took active part in the camp.

BAL NIROGI YEAR CELEBRATION (HEALTHY CHILD YEAR) (2008-09)

The Chief Minister of Gujarat State declared the year 2008-09 as the BAL NIROGI YEAR (Healthy Child Year). Hence the Director of Industrial Health and Safety, Government of Gujarat, declared that the industries in Surat must organize 213 Health Check up Programmes.

Our Chairman Mr. Laljibhai agreed voluntarily to organize the First Health Check up camp in Surat city. Hence on June 20^th 2008, from 10:00am to 2:00pm a HEALTH CHECK UP Camp (For Children below 5 years and Pregnant Females) was organized at our Factory Premises at Gotalawadi, Katargam Road, Surat More than 150 Children and more than 300 Pregnant Females were Checked up by the Medical Experts and Specialists. The Medicines were also distributed free charges.

Donation to hometown for the development of School

Shir LaljiBhai has donated to “Ravigo Vidhya Mandir, Ugamedi, Gujarat” a building and other educational needs like benches, books & notebooks. His vision was that his hometown children should shine and get well educated from his hometown instead of moving to different township near to his village. This is an especially student for higher education who need no migrate to other township.

Shairu Gems is a forerunner for Corporate Social Investment. Bringing about sustainable and meaningful change is pivotal to the stakeholder of this organization. The many activities that this Shairu Gems is involved with, ranging from long-term projects like cardiac hospital to short-term activities like tree plantation, is testimony to there dedication to bring positive change to people’s lives.

Bachubhai Dayabhai Mehta Mahavir Cardiac Hospital

Their largest initiative is the Bachubhai Dayabhai Mehta Mahavir Cardiac Hospital in Surat, which is chaired by a member of the Mehta family. Under their guidance the hospital has recently opened an MRI centre, with all the technology being donated by the family. The hospital has also been able to open a new trauma wing.

This hospital meets the needs of the common man who pay highly subsidized rates vis-à-vis private hospitals in the country.

So high is the quality of healthcare here, that this state-of-the-art hospital also attracts the elite of Surat. Fees paid by the more well to do clientele are put back into the running of the hospital, and also to subsidize treatment to poorer classes.

The Shree Mahavir Health and Medical Relief Centre

This is a new wing that has recently been built at the Bachubhai Dayabhai Mehta Mahavir Cardiac Hospital. Adding 150 patient rooms more, this centre also known as the Trauma Unit, it provides emergency care and operations to hundreds of patients every month, all at minimal costs. For Shairu Gems employees and their families, treatment at both the hospital and trauma unit is free of cost.

The Ambaji Girls High School

Illiteracy is still wide spread in India. And when it comes to the child, this issue is even more serious. The stakeholders of Shairu Gems, therefore founded and self-funded a school dedicated only for girls. In many towns of rural India, girls are segregated from boys at a very young age. By building an all girl’s school, the chances that a girl will be allowed to come to school, improved dramatically.

Other local projects

The staff and board members of Shairu Gems also undertake short-term localized projects to bring sustainable change in the living environment of the city. Some of the projects recently undertake include;

• Liaising with the administration of a neighborhood government run school. In India these schools are typically under funded, understaffed and with very poor amenities. Shairu Gems has improved the amenities of this school and brought up the infrastructure to schools run by private, profit-oriented organizations.
• Paper bag making workshops are held at regular intervals in various rural locations. Usually women participate in there workshops and use the skill to generate additional income for the household. The paper bags they make are brought by Shairu gems, and then distributed free-of-cost to local shops. This also helps in conserving the environment, as shopkeepers are encouraged to circulate paper bags instead of the plastic bags they would otherwise use.

This company organizes tree plantain drives on a regular basis. In 2008-09 along. Shairu Gems has been responsible for planting 15,250 trees.

Integrated into the very fabric of JB Diamond’s business model is a sound policy of Corporate Social Investment, which offers their community a strong corporate support and helps bring positive change by making things happen.

Spearheading these changes is the patriarch and founder of the company, Jivrajbhai Surani. He is found on the boards of several welfare, business and educational institutions including the Shree Saurashtra Patidar Social Trust, Omveda Advisory Committee and Surat Diamond Association.

JB Diamonds has also founded and funds the JB Dhanukawalla College and JB Diamonds People’s Charitable Trust, which helps subsidize education and medical treatment for those who cant, affords it.

The various shareholders of JB Diamonds have leveraged their position in society to gather and move people to a common cause. Some highlights of JB’s corporate social investments include:

• Creating, funding and implementing crisis management plans. JB Diamonds have actively worked on the ground after the Kargil war to help rehabilitate wounded soldiers and their families.

• The Gujrat earthquake, with its epicenter in Kutch resulted in 17,000 fatalities, 15,000 injured and left more than 500,000 homeless. JB Diamonds, along with their senior stakeholders and staff went to the site to help with food and medical supplies. They also provided temporary shelter and helped rehabilitate the people of the area.

• Blood donation drives are carried out at JB Diamonds’ factory annually.

• Planted 15,250 trees in and around Surat.

• Bhavani Gems organized a Medical Camp in Lathi where more than 10,000 people attended from neighboring villages and they were given free medical treatment as well as free medicines. Around 100 specialist doctors had been called from all over Gujara

• Trustee in various Education Trust and also built schools at various places such as Sartdar Patel Education Trust- Bhavnagar- Computer Room, Sardar Patel Vidyabhavan-Ahmedebad, Kaplapi Vinay Mandir High School-Lathi, Youth Hostel Association of India- Lathi, Omkar English Medium Secondary School-Ranghola Village, Swaminarrayan GuruKul- Damnagar, Bhavani Bal Mandir- Lathi.

• Developed A Public Garden in Lathi for Children’s and Old age people who come every evening to spend quality time.

• Developed a Joggers Track, which is use by people for morning and evening walk for public.

Mahendra Brothers Exports Pvt. Ltd. And its supported Trusts Parikh Foundation has promoted and supported a variety of activities in the field of education, health care, social and philanthropic.

Main activities in the field of Education:

• Large donation in setting up the Indian Institute for Gem and Jewellery- sponsored by Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council.
• C.L. Parikh Commerce college in Palanpur.
• Vidyamandir Trust- Palanpur- B.L. Parikh Institute of English Language.
• Manav Kalyan Trust- Mamta- Institute for Deaf and Mute- Navsari.
• Sanskar Bharati School- Navsari.
• Akhil Hind Mahila Parishad Primary School- Navasari.
• Central Library of world class ideally suited to school children of Vidya Mandir Trust, Palanpur

Main activities in the field of Health Care:

• Shri Laxmichand Lallubhai Parikh and Shri Chimanlal Laxmichand Parikh Hospital.
• Bhagwan Mahavir Seva Samiti- Palanpur- Blood Bank.
• Upgrading & renovating, reoding of Pediatric ward at KEM Hospital- Mumbai.
• Upgrading & expanding I.C.U. ward at B.Y.L Nair Hospital.
• I.C.C.U at K.D.N Gohil Hospital- Navsari.
• Vision Research Foundation- Eye Research Centre at Chennai- Eye Hospital
• I.C.C.U. to Mahavir Heart Hospital, Surat
• Regular major donor to the cataract operation camp in Bihar.
• Navsari Cancer Care Foundation “Ba” (Lilavati Chimanlal Parikh Cancer Centre).

Humanitarian relief & rehabilitation- projects/ Natural Calamities:

Donor to rehabilitation activity for earthquake affected people of Gujarat.

• Ramnagar- near Morbi in Gujarat- The whole village having 52 houses was reconstructed and allotted to earthquake affected people, free of charge.
• Lilagram near Morbi having 81 houses, and school was reconstructed and donated to beneficiaries.
• At Anjar in Kutchh, donated a handsome amount towards the establishment of a residential complex having over 120 houses.

There are several institutions and activities where Mahendra Brothers Exports Pvt. Ltd and Parikh Foundation have been active participant in providing assistance to Thalessemic, heart and dialysis patients, educational scholarships to students in various fields, libraries in rural areas, grants to Association which sponsor free distribution of food to the needy and weaker section.

Education:

Asian Star Co. Ltd has invested USD 175,000 in 2002 to set up schools in Sagrosana and Takarwada in Gujarat, in its efforts to impart Primary and Higher Secondary Education to the children of Gujarat, especially the girl child.

Over the years, Asian Star Co. Ltd has provided continuing support to upgrade educational facilities at these schools through the provision of hi-tech computer labs and reading libraries equipped with over 3000 books on varied subjects.

Healthcare:

Asian Star Co. Ltd is actively involved in supporting healthcare programs by non-profit institutions. This year we extended support to the “2009 Palitana Camp for the disabled” with a contribution of USD 45,000. This camp is being held from Dec 23, 2009 to Jan 9, 2010, and will provide aid to the physically and visually impaired from all communities.

Direct aid is also being provided to individual patients of Cancer, Heart and Kidney problems, for eye operations and aid to the physically impaired in the form of Jaipur Foot and Wheel chairs.

We at the Jasani group define ourselves based on a set of core values that are intrinsic to the way we work. These values include the awareness of the need to work beyond financial considerations and recognize the growing importance of good corporate citizenship. We believe it is important to be alert to environmental, social and ethical issues and endeavor to put in that little extra to ensure the good of society and to improve the quality of life of the communities we serve. Towards this we have set up the Jasni trust through

Tribal Integrated Development & Education Trust: Working towards opium de-addiction, Health, literacy, education, women’s education and income generating schemes in the villages and backward areas of Gujrat and Rajasthan.

Holy Spirit Hospital, Mumbai: Sponsorship of the pediatric ward. Inspired by the life giving Spirit of God, the mission at Holy Spirit Hospital is to respect life, through person-oriented quality Health-care for all in loving service.

Diamond Education: We have sponsored and helped set up the Jasani Department of jewellery Design and manufacture at the S.N.D.T Women’s University where we offer a Diploma in Jewellery Design and manufacture course to young women interested in the jewellery business.

Our factory at SEEPZ: The Jasani group has taken on the responsibility of the upkeep and maintenance of the lake within the SEEPZ zone. A walking track is also being constructed around the lake and we are creating and maintaining the greenery around this track is also being constructed around the lake and we are creating and maintaining the greenery around this track. We have also been given permission to develop a barren patch of land into a public garden as soon as the patch is handed over to us by SEEPZ.

We have also planned to plant 2 trees per employee of our company over the next 3 years. Of which 300 trees have already been planted around the lake.

Our principles function as an autonomous mechanism, whereby business observes adherence to law, ethical standards and international norms. KARP proactively promotes the public interest and honors a triple bottom line- People, Planet, and Profit. At KARP Corporate Social Responsibility is derived from the personal experiences of the Founder/Promoter family and often exceeds what would be expected of just a good corporate citizen. We have over 5000 workers and we take them very seriously. It is for reasons like this that we are the employers of choice and over 15% of our workers are third generation employees.

Other initiatives:

• Animal Welfare- Shree Gholera Animal Asylum Trust
• Humanitarian- SUPPORT (Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for Rehabilitation, Bhavnagar women’s Education Mandal, Blood Donation Camps, Narayan Seva Trust- supporting handicaps and polio affected individuals

Education:

• Sdar Patel Education Trust
• Leuva Patel Girl’s School
• B. N. Virani School, Bhavnagar
• B. N. Virani School, Ranghols
• B. N. Virani School, Amreli
• Girl’s School, Atkot, Rajkot
• S. B. Virani Primary School, Surat
• J.B. Diamond & KARP Impex Vidhya Sanku
• Ekal Vidyalay Movement- for the tribal children in Ind

Medical

• Shree Leuva Patel Education & Medical Charitable Trust
• Mahavir Cardiax, Surat
• Mahavir General Hospital, Surat
• Ashakta Ashram and Prannath Hospital, Surat

Sports

• National level Basketball Championship
• Sponsoring individual in International Chess Tournaments
• Sponsoring matches for D.S. Cricket Tours (P) Ltd.
• Sponsoring matches for D.S. Cricket Tours (P) Ltd
• Jointly Sponsoring “Hong Kong Cricket Sixes 2009” with Unirich Jewellery