SAP brings social sabbatical programme to India

PUNE: Enterprise software company SAP has announced the completion of the third round of its social sabbatical programme in India. Under this programme, a group of 12 SAP employees from China, USA, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Japan, Argentina and Dubai worked for one month on-site with four non-profit organizations and social ventures in Mumbai to help solve their pressing organizational challenges and set them up for sustainable growth. 

SAP said its social sabbatical is one of the most cutting-edge initiatives for social engagement and leadership development for its top talents. As of 2014, the programme has activated 304,800 pro-bono service hours by 127 employees from 31 nations, serving 40 organizations worldwide. 

A good 98% of client NGOs and social enterprises were satisfied or highly satisfied with the performance and results of the SAP social sabbatical teams; 97% would recommend SAP; and 70% implemented at least 80% of the recommendations delivered by the social sabbatical teams, the company said. 

While in Mumbai, the SAP social sabbatical team has been working with Edubridge Learning, Mumbai Mobile Creches, Paaduks and UnLtd India to help them solve business challenges in the areas of expansion, administration, sales, marketing and controlling. 

"Through the social sabbatical programme, SAP focuses on helping NGOs and social entrepreneurs to unlock their potential to create sustainable economic growth and social impact, and emerge as nation's growth engines" said Alicia Lenze, SAP global head of CSR.

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