IDBI Bank, UNICEF for safe water

UNICEF and IDBI Bank have entered into a partnership to provide safe drinking water and sanitation to 80,000 children in 400 schools and Anganwadi centres in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Rs 2.7 crore partnerships entered into by the bank is part of its corporate social responsibility programme. The partnership was signed by IDBI Bank Chief General Manager R.V. Iyer and UNICEF India Representative Louis-Georges Arsenault.

The programme will provide improved access to safe- drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for school-going children under the 'Model WASH in Schools' initiative in the two states," said a release issued by the bank and UNICEF.

UNICEF

• The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations Program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
• UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
• Its present head is Anthony Lake