Education CSV: 39 programs reaching 29,000+ beneficiaries
Straive · 2025 · Education
Straive's education CSV programs (Digital and Language Lab, scholarships, Project Puthri pre-employment, nutrition for children, summer camps) ran 39 programs reaching 29,000+ beneficiaries with 3,756+ volunteer hours.
Education at the core of Straive's shared-value work
Education is the largest of the four pillars in Straive's "Creating Shared Value" (CSV) framework, and the company's ESG disclosures put hard numbers behind it. Straive reports running "39 Programs" that reached "29,000+ Beneficiaries," powered by "618+ Volunteers" and "3,756+ Volunteer hours."
The programs range from digital-skills training to scholarships and child nutrition, reflecting Straive's stated focus on "IT-enabled education" and youth welfare in the communities where it operates — the United States, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Nicaragua.
The program portfolio
Straive lists a wide slate of education initiatives under the CSV banner, including:
- Digital and Language Lab scholarships
- General educational support and an Engineering Language-Digital Training Program
- Project Puthri, a pre-employment initiative for underprivileged girls
- Nutrition programs for children
- Summer camps and a "Seeds of Change" initiative
The common thread is preparing young people from disadvantaged backgrounds for education and, ultimately, employment — a natural fit for a company whose own business runs on digital and language skills.
Project Puthri: the standout partnership
The most concrete of these is Project Puthri, an initiative of the Avtar Human Capital Trust (AHCT) in India. Puthri — the word means "daughter" — is described by AHCT as India's first movement dedicated to building "Career Intentionality" among underprivileged girls aged 13 to 18 studying in government and corporation schools, combining scholarships with mentorship. The wider Project Puthri movement reports a presence across 13 locations and more than 27,000 beneficiaries.
Straive has supported the program by funding scholarships for deserving students. Reports from the partnership describe Straive awarding 39 scholarships, with the checks handed over by senior Straive executives including CFO Kumar Subramaniam and VP of HR Manoj Menon. At scholarship events, beneficiaries have spoken about how the funding helps break the cycle of poverty — the kind of testimony that anchors the program's education-to-employment logic.
How it fits the wider ESG picture
Straive's education programs are the human-capital counterpart to its environmental and diversity work, all sitting under a CSV framework the company says is "driven primarily by employee volunteerism" and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The education strand maps most directly to SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 5 (gender equality, via girl-focused programs like Puthri) and SDG 2 (zero hunger, via child-nutrition efforts).
The company frames all of this within a broader ESG program that includes a Net Zero by 2040 commitment with SBTi-validated targets, a CDP "B" rating and ISO 14001 certification — the governance scaffolding that its community programs hang from.
Why it matters
Of Straive's four CSV pillars, education is where the company can claim the tightest link between its social mission and its commercial reality: it employs knowledge workers, and its programs build the digital, language and STEM skills that underpin that workforce. That alignment is the essence of "shared value" — social investment that also strengthens the talent pipeline.
The Project Puthri partnership with Avtar Human Capital Trust gives the education pillar a named, externally verifiable anchor, complete with a documented scholarship count and identified NGO partner. The broader totals — 39 programs, 29,000+ beneficiaries, 3,756+ volunteer hours — are self-reported figures from Straive's ESG page and should be read as the company's own account, but the Puthri tie-up stands on independent footing through AHCT's own public record of the program.