Vocational Training Centre (VTC) Chubwa was set up with the objective of training the tea garden youth in various skill and income-generating activities, with a vision to build a skilled workforce within the community to ensure sustainable development. The Centre offers short-term courses for industrial Sewing Machine Operators (SMO) and Customer Care Executives (CCE).
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APPL Foundation in association with ASMI, organized a Cancer Care Camp for workers and staff at Kellyden Tea Hospital, in February 2016. Our endeavour is to create awareness, particularly among women on the topic of breast and cervical cancer.
Medical camps were organised with the support of Solidaridad, in the closed tea gardens of Dooars. The gardens on account of being closed for the last 13 years have led to the gross neglect and deplorable living conditions of the erstwhile plantation workers.
Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd has been a 100% cleft-free company since 2011. Since then consolidated efforts are being made to ensure that the communities around RHRC are also completely free of cleft defect.
Regular cleft surgery & screening camps in collaboration with Operation Smile India organized at RHRC, Chubwa.
With healthcare facilities in rural India being scarce and ill-equipped, APPL Foundation partnered with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to create a symbolic milestone in the arena of healthcare in Assam and North Bengal. HP and APPL Foundation together set out on our journey to deliver specialist medical aid to remote locations, where our tea estates are located.