Nestle? India Limited, a leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company has been in India for about 100 years. The company, since its inception, has projected a responsible behaviour by ensuring the welfare and upliftment of communities around which it operates. The company believes that creating better livelihood opportunities for the communities residing around its operations, is its responsibility.

Through its Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, Nestle focuses on areas in which it can create maximum value. These areas include:

– Nutrition: India bears the double burden of malnutrition for a large part of her population. Nestle’s CSR initiatives aim at improving nutrition awareness of communities with a special focus on school children.

– Water and Sanitation: India is among the world’s most water-stressed countries. Many citizens of India do not have access to safe drinking water. The CSR initiatives of Nestle India aims to help farmers with techniques to reduce water usage in agriculture, raise awareness on water conservation and provide access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

– Rural Development: Nestle CSR has chosen to focus on rural development in order to support the sustainable development of farmers, which would allow them to grow as the company grows.

Some key initiatives that your Company has been engaged in are as follows:

CSR at Nestle 2017-18

Healthy Kids Programme has been developed with a focus to raise nutrition health andwellness awareness among adolescents. The programme contributes towards overalldevelopment of adolescents as well as encourages healthier lifestyle by arming them withknowledge that impacts them in a meaningful way. The programme is being conducted since2009 and is helping raise awareness regarding good nutritional and cooking practices goodhygiene and promoting physical fitness. The programme is implemented through two modesone is in partnership with six regional universities and the second is with NGO Magic BusIndia Foundation. The programme celebrated its 10^th year of implementation andhas expanded significantly since its inception incorporating pertinent elements likeplastic waste management etc. in the existing curriculum as well as including parents andteachers as direct beneficiaries in the programme.

Till year 2019 over 300000 adolescents across 23 states have been encouraged to livehealthier lives through Nestle Healthy Kids Programme.

Project Jagriti: As part of the commitment to inspiring people to lead healthier livesand providing educational programmes your Company in partnership with MAMTA HealthInstitute for Mother and Child implemented Project Jagriti. The project focuses ondeveloping community support for improved health and nutrition outcomes among adolescentsyoung couples and caregivers while improving the uptake of public health services. In2019 your Company moved to a system-led approach with a focus on counseling anddevelopment of front- line workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) andAnganwadi Workers etc. This approach is useful in populations that are deficient inknowledge and unaware of their health needs and rights. Till year 2019 the programme hasreached out to 5 million beneficiaries - 1.7 million direct and impacting 3.3 millionbeneficiaries indirectly across 8 States/Union Territories.

Project SERVE SAFE FOOD: Recognizing the potential of street food vending as animportant source of livelihood your Company joined hands with NGO Nidan and NationalAssociation of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) to develop programmes to train street foodvendors on subjects such as health hygiene food handling food safety personal hygienecart hygiene and garbage disposal. Till 2019 this programme has been implemented across17 states/Union Territories reaching over to 20000 street food vendors.

Project Vriddhi: Strengthening your Company's commitment towards building a healthiersociety and positively impacting the lives of people in marginalised communities yourCompany in collaboration with S M Sehgal Foundation launched Project 'Vriddhi' aninitiative towards village adoption. The three-year project is aimed at improving thelivelihoods of 1500 people in the village of Rohira in Nuh district Haryana forbringing a positive change in the lives of the locals.

The project focuses on improving access to clean drinking water for communitiespromoting water-saving irrigation practices increasing awareness on nutrition enhancingfarm productivity and providing healthy learning environment in schools by improvinghygiene and sanitation practices.

CSR at Nestle 2018-19

Nestle firmly believes in the purpose of ‘Enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future’. The company operates around this mantra and is mindful of the needs of the communities around it. It not only strives to be sustainable with the community but also works to make a positive difference and create maximum value for the society.

Nestle India focuses its efforts in society on the three pivotal ambitions of enabling healthier and happier lives for individuals and families, on helping develop thriving and resilient communities, and on stewarding the planet’s natural resources for future generations, with particular care for water.

Nestle believes in creating partnerships with stakeholders including communities, academia, civil society, expert organisations and so on. It chooses to take up such CSR activities that have been aligned with national priorities such as public health, education, livelihood, water and sanitation etc. These areas are mapped with the activities as prescribed in Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013.

Nestle India Limited spent more than the prescribed 2% in corporate social responsibility programs in the financial year 2018-19. While the prescribed CSR expenditure as per Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 was 38.07 crore rupees, actual CSR spend during the year amounted to INR 38.31 crores.

Some of the Nestle's CSR projects :

• Nestle Healthy Kids Programme – CSR in Nutrition – Project Jagriti
• Project Jagriti – A unique partnership to create healthier communities
• Nestle Healthy Kids Programme – 10 years of promoting adolescent’s nutrition, health and wellbeing
• Water Conservation
• Nestle CSR – Project Serve Safe Food
• Sanitation Initiatives
• Nestle CSR Rural Development – Project Vriddhi
• Plastic Waste Management Awareness
• Project HILLDAARI

CSR at Nestle 2019-2020

Some key initiatives that your Company has been engaged in are as follows:

NESTLÉ HEALTHY KIDS Programme: The NestléHealthy Kids Programme has been developed with a focus to raise nutrition, health and wellness awareness among adolescents. The programme contributes towards overall development of adolescents as well as encourages healthier lifestyle, by arming them with knowledge that impacts them in a meaningful way. The programme is being conducted since 2009 and is helping raise awareness regarding good nutritional and cooking practices, good hygiene and promoting physical fitness. The programme is implemented through two modes, one is in partnership with six regional universities and the second is with NGO Magic Bus India Foundation. The programme celebrated its 10th year of implementation and has expanded significantly since its inception, incorporating pertinent elements like plastic waste management etc. in the existing curriculum as well as including parents and teachers as direct beneficiaries in the programme. Till year 2019, over 300,000 adolescents across 23 states have been encouraged to live healthier lives through Nestlé Healthy Kids Programme.

Project Jagriti: As part of the commitment to inspiring people to lead healthier lives and providing educational programmes, your Company, in partnership with MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child, implemented

Project Jagriti. The project focuses on developing community support for improved health and nutrition outcomes among adolescents, young couples and caregivers while improving the uptake of public health services. In 2019, your Company moved to a system-led approach with a focus on counseling and development of front- line workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Anganwadi Workers etc. This approach is useful in populations that are deficient in knowledge and unaware of their health needs and rights. Till year 2019, the programme has reached out to 5 million beneficiaries - 1.7 million direct and impacting 3.3 million beneficiaries indirectly across 8 States/Union Territories.

Project SERVE SAFE FOOD: Recognizing the potential of street food vending as an important source of livelihood, your Company joined hands with NGO Nidan and National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), to develop programmes to train street food vendors on subjects such as health, hygiene, food handling, food safety, personal hygiene, cart hygiene and garbage disposal. Till 2019, this programme has been implemented across 17 states/Union Territories reaching over to 20,000 street food vendors.

Project Vriddhi: Strengthening your Company’s commitment towards building a healthier society and positively impacting the lives of people in marginalised communities, your Company in collaboration with S M Sehgal Foundation, launched Project ‘Vriddhi’, an initiative towards village adoption. The three-year project is aimed at improving the livelihoods of 1,500 people in the village of Rohira in Nuh district, Haryana, for bringing a positive change in the lives of the locals. The project focuses on improving access to clean drinking water for communities, promoting water-saving irrigation practices, increasing awareness on nutrition, enhancing farm productivity and providing healthy learning environment in schools by improving hygiene and sanitation practices.