Unicef partners with IIM-L alumni to assist UN programmes

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has partnered with the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) Alumni Association to assist the United Nations (UN) children’s body in its programmes.

The partnership has been weaved around the IIM-L’s international alumni meet on May 7. The coordinated meet is being held at 10 locations across the globe viz. Singapore, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kuwait, London, New York and lastly San Francisco.

Unicef is keen to enlist the IIM-L community to help in their initiatives in India and globally. The association would develop a framework, by which IIM-L alumni could use their experience and skills to assist Unicef programmes.

The coordinated worldwide meet of IIM-L community would put heads together to develop meaningful activities to assist their alma mater and Unicef.

An IIM-L spokesperson said moving away from tradition, IIM-L had devised a novel alumni meet, which has been consolidated into a single worldwide meeting of the community.

Over 1,500 alumni are expected to participate along with IIM-L faculty and students.

“We are a community of successful individuals and we need to work together for common cause to make a difference, be it assisting the alma mater or working with Unicef,” Association president Vinit Chauhan said.

In the past, IIM-L alumni had participated in Kargil War Relief Efforts and Tsunami Relief Mobilisation.

Lakshminarayan Lan, (IIM-L class of 1991), Chief Endowment Officer of the $2- billion Azim Premji Trust said there was always an innate desire in all alumni to give back to the respective communities and such initiatives would help mobilise that into tangible results.

Krishna Gubili, Director, Wipro Technologies, based in New York (IIM-L class of 1993) said the alumni based in USA were looking forward to being a part of this team.