Education is one of the most powerful tools to ensure sustainable development and thus it remains a mainstay for HDFC’s CSR initiatives. During the year, the Corporation has supported social organisations working on mainstreaming school dropouts in rural areas and programmes using low cost and innovative tools to improve the quality of education and learning outcomes. HDFC partnered with organisations building valuable learning resources which included a school for tribal children and an integrated centre for science education. Financial assistance was provided for the development of sustainable rural technologies to one of India’premier universities. HDFC also supported programmes imparting life skills training to children from rural and urban slum communities and provided financial assistance for training programmes for primary and secondary school teachers.