To encourage learning, Exotel partners with Diya Ghar to sponsor Montessori education and nutritious food for migrant laborers’ children.

Customer engagement platform Exotel announced their new CSR initiative under the ExoCares program in partnership with Diya Ghar NGO. Exotel sponsors Montessori education and nutritious food for an entire classroom of Diya Ghar’s 2nd center in Munekollal, Bengaluru. This is the NGO’s 17th center in Bengaluru.

Bengaluru is home to about 42 lakh migrant laborers living in squatters in remote locations surrounding the city. Diya Ghar focuses on empowering children in these slum communities with early childhood care when they’re most vulnerable with a lack of basic needs and supervision. The NGO, to date, supported 900 kids and aims to help 5000 kids with 100 centers. 

“A Sanskrit phrase “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" translates to thinking of the whole world as one family. We can’t leave behind a few people and continue with our progress. It’s about taking them along, and we want to carry along the entire village and not just us,” commented Shivakumar Ganesan, Co-founder and CEO of Exotel. “We chose Diya Ghar because of the great work they’re doing, and they also embody one of our own values, commitment, where they continue to be committed to uplifting all the children.”

Exotel believes in the concept of giving back to society. Their partnership with Diya Ghar is the 2nd initiative under the ExoCares program. Exotel will soon celebrate the 3rd anniversary of their 1st partnership with Parkirma Foundation sponsoring a kindergarten class with quality food and education. 

Commenting on working with Exotel, Saraswathi Padmanabhan, Director at Diya Ghar commented, “Diya Ghar’s focus is providing early childhood care and education for children of migrant laborers. These children are the most vulnerable and do not have access to Government run preschools. We thank Exotel for supporting our Munnekollal Centre with 40 children! We are grateful to partner with an organization that believes in the importance of early education and believes in taking the joy of learning to every child.”

About Exotel

Exotel is the emerging market’s leading full stack customer engagement platform and business-focused virtual telecom operator. Incorporated in 2011, Exotel’s cloud-based product suite powers 50 million daily engagements across voice, video, and messaging channels. Exotel powers customer engagement to over 7000 companies in 60+ countries, including India, SE Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Today, some of the fastest-growing companies in the emerging markets (Ola, Swiggy, Flipkart, GoJek, Byju’s, Urban Company, HDFC Bank, Zomato, Oyo, etc.) manage their customer engagement with Exotel’s suite of a communication APIs, Ameyo’s omnichannel contact centre (merger), and Cogno AI‘s conversational AI platform (acquisition) over the cloud. They’re a $100 million Series D funded company with $60 million in ARR.

About Diya Ghar

For the last four years, Diya Ghar has been changing the lives of the migrant community in Bangalore by providing pre-school education for children of laborers in a nurturing environment. Along with this foundational Montessori education, our children are given two wholesome meals daily and safe transport from their settlements to school and back. So far, over 400 little ones have “graduated” from Diya Ghar and joined elementary schools in Bangalore or back in their villages.