Nice Foundation wins TSS Social Enterprise award

Hyderabad WITH a mission of saving lives, Nice Foundation, which has been generously working for two decades to serve the society in the areas of Maternal, Newborn and Child care, has got global recognition. It has been chosen by just concluded TiE Sustainability Summit (TSS) among 30,000 social enterprises from about 64 countries registered for the summit. Nice has won TSS Social Enterprise award for saving lives for so many years.

Over 42,000 lives impacted through direct primary health care delivery. Around 2,75,000 children have been covered by providing preventive care. The novel initiative Not Well, Come to School! it rolled out helped perform more than 120 Cardiac surgeries and around 470 other surgeries and also been accepted for the ILO countries of the world. The foundation has received Philanthropic support to more than 200 crore to date

"The mission of the organisation is saving lives and we have been doing so through designing and implementing practical solutions to need-based issues in various regions of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, This award is a reward for excellence, which we will cherish," said Dr Padmanabh Reddy, CEO, Nice Foundation.

"One of the key focus area is solving a critical social problem – Maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) through an innovative midwife-led program since 2004 in remote, hard to reach terrains to save precious lives of mother/child, We are delighted to have chosen as the TSS Emerging Social Enterprise of the Year Award. We are both honored and humbled and this recognition will go a long way in motivating our teams at the roots to work harder," he added