Corporate Social Responsibility: The House of Dempo

The Dempo Sustainable Development record is as varied as its initiatives are large-scale. Its thrust areas, as before, are Higher Education, Sporting Excellence, Goan Culture Enrichment, Affirmative Action, Environment Conservation, and Underprivileged Student Scholarships

Among the noteworthy programmes run by Group Businesses or its not-for profit undertakings:-

Under the aegis of the Vasantrao Dempo Education & Research Foundation

	The Dempo Research Fellowships-Supporting researchers into Goa-centric socio-economic studies to submit scholarly works later published to enable wider readership. Two books published - an encyclopaedia of Goan art and culture, Kaleidoscope Goa, and The Goan Village Communes, a work on the ancient system of local self - government, ‘communidades’ - with a third in progress
	An ethnographic research project directed by an internationally known anthropologist aimed at uncovering issues of concern to the Goan rural populace with particular relevance to women, children, health and civil governance, as a prelude to further worthy, targeted CSR initiatives.

Under the aegis of the Dempo Charities Trust

	A range of scholarships to needy students, including special such schemes for children and students hailing from Santa Cruz Village, the seat of the Dempo ancestral home
	Extensive infrastructure up-gradation and injection of new resources into Dhempe College of Arts & Science, S S Dempo College of Commerce & Economics, Vasantrao Dempo Higher Secondary School of Arts & Science, and Vaikunthrao Dempo Higher Secondary School of Commerce, the four Dempo institutions for pre-university, undergraduate and post-graduate learning in Panaji (among the earliest such academic institutes to be established in post-Liberation Goa) affiliated to Goa University, including launch of innovative academic and learning programmes
	The Vasudeva V Dempo Memorial Lecture Series whose celebrity guest orators have been the country’s former prime minister, the head of its largest private bank, and the head of its largest private steel company

Under the aegis of V S Dempo Holdings Pvt Ltd

	Promoting sporting excellence by supporting three young Goan girls as the Dempo Goodwill Brand Ambassadors, each a globally benchmarked achiever in lawn tennis, chess and swimming
	The Vasudeva V Dempo Programme for Climate Change Awareness, in partnership with globally renowned NGO, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) aimed at awareness-raising and capacity building among 1000 middle-school Goan students to face global warming
	Partnering industry association, Confederation of Indian Industry, in affirmative action programmes supporting professional study learners from among India’s underprivileged communities, aimed at improving their employability.

A class in progress at one of our
Educational Institutions

One of the young Dempo-promoted
Sports Achievers

Corporate Social Responsibility