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Women Workers in India being championed by American company

Gap Inc. : This is a proud fact for Indians and particularly for the ones who reside in America. The worldwide popular company, Gap Inc. is busy training women and in technical skills within the company’s supply chain and community settings. So far, over one million women and girls have received the training.

Gap Inc. : A practically secular state America encourages American businesses keeping employees around the globe to protect their workers’ rights along with making efforts to decrease their negative effects on the environment.

Proudly protecting human rights

Being the largest U.S. specialty retail company, Gap Inc. has heeded the call and dedicatedly implemented its policies to protect human rights, improve business performance and to reduce environmental impacts as well.

Gap’s Vice President Judy Adler says the company works towards building “a more sustainable future for our business, our communities, and also for the planet.”

Offering its skills-training program globally

Gap open heartedly offers its skills-training programs for millions of people who are employed in its supply chain. The company has launched over fifteen years ago, its Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (P.A.C.E.) program which has so far more than one million women folks in technical skills within the supply chain of Gap Inc. and its community settings.

Concerned about environment needs too

This is truly appreciable on the part of the company that it reduces its environmental impact, investing millions of dollars in a wastewater treatment facility in Gujarat. The Wastewater Treatment has been set up at a manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad. Saving 2.5 billion liters of water annually, this facility thus helps maintain the local community’s access to fresh water.

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Running Prevention and Response Program also

Another humane face of the the company is truly inspiring for others. Gap also fights gender-based violence (GBV) via its GBV Prevention and Response Program. The GBV program’s aims basically is towards increasing awareness along with strengthening supplier-factory policies for improving their response to the GBV. Since it began six years ago in 2016, the program has reached more than four lakh people employed in GAP’s supply chain.

(Courtesy: Quarterly SPAN magazine, Press Office, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi.)

Parijat Tripathi

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