AMM Foundation, the CSR arm of the Rs 74,000-crore Murugappa Group, is extending its philanthropic efforts beyond its traditional focus areas of health and education into sports and environmental initiatives in its centenary year.
The foundation has set up the Murugappa Youth Football Academy in the north of Chennai to train children from underprivileged communities, especially from the fishermen community, as well as inaugurated a football field in Sivaganga district’s Pallathur village as well.
It has started a water rejuvenation project ‘Nanneer’ in the arid Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu. It has restored seven water bodies of varying sizes so far. Its goal is to restore 10 billion litres by 2026 from the current 1 billion litres restored so far.
“We set up the AMM Foundation and practised social responsibility before regulatory mandates around CSR came in,” Business Today quotes AMM Foundation managing trustee and former chairman of the Murugappa Group MA Alagappan as having said at a media interaction on Thursday, a few days after a function to mark the foundation’s centenary year.
Established in 1924 with the inauguration of the AMM Hospital in Pallathur, Sivaganga, the AMM Foundation now manages several institutions and projects across India. The Foundation manages five hospitals, mobile health vans and five educational institutions among other initiatives.
