Other Community Initiatives

Some of the Other Initiatives taken by PepsiCo:


PepsiCo India HIV/AIDS Initiative
PepsiCo India embarked on the HIV / AIDS journey in 2005, along with our Technical partner The International Labor Organization (ILO), with the purpose of spreading awareness amongst all our stakeholders. We have built the whole program in a manner to build capacity within and externally and have focused on the “Each one Teach one” approach to ensure sustainability. The program was kicked off by creating a pool of Master Trainers and Peer Educators who could cascade the program across all our work locations along with NGOs who were also trained along with PepsiCo employees. We started the program by cascading HIV / AIDS awareness amongst our employees. This was progressively enhanced to cover other stakeholders including spouses of employees, business partners, distributors, contractual workers, and our bottling partners. We further strengthened the impact of our efforts through community outreach programs where we leveraged our NGO partners across the country.

Today we have 58 Master Trainers and 175 Peer Educators across both businesses and our endeavor is to continue to create more and most Master Trainers and Peer Educators. PepsiCo India has been awarded TERI Corporate Award for Business Response to HIV/AIDS in 2009.


Making a Difference
A unique opportunity for our employees to make a difference to the lives of girl child is the newly formed association with Salaam Balak Trust, an NGO that runs a shelter for homeless girls in Gurgaon. The orientation program saw enthusiastic participation from employees and their families. Employees and the children of the trust had a lot of fun knowing each other over fun games and interactive sessions. The spark in the eyes of kids were worth the effort made by employees however small it may be. As part of further strengthening this association, employees and in some cases even the family members are currently visiting the shelter on pre-assigned slots to share their knowledge , skills and learnings about computers, art & craft, healthy foods and communication skills with the children to prepare them for better future.