Reaching out to the larger community around us ...................

The Samtel Group was founded with a vision of building an institution which would achieve business excellence while contributing to nation building by caring for the society and environment. In its desire to play a significant role beyond the boundaries of its factories in the communities that reside around its plants, the Group founded the Samtel Achrumal Medical Aid Trust (SAMA) in 1988.

Apart from health services, Samtel has been playing an active role in times of calamity in the country. Rs. Twenty lakh was donated to the Gujarat Relief Fund after the major earthquake in the Kutch Region. Medicines worth thousands of rupees were sent to Orissa when that state was hit by a cyclone. SAMA also supports 'Vijaya', an NGO in Orissa, that is involved in health care in the tribal belts of the state besides providing safe drinking water to these areas under the name of 'Project Jeevan Dhara'.

Through SAMA, Samtel has provided three mobile medical vans, with trained medical staff, which are dedicated to providing health care services to the communities around its plants in Ghaziabad, Kota and Parwanoo.

SAMA has held a number of medical camps on maternal and child health, immunization, blood donation and eye care in the last three years because of which over 30,000 people have benefited.

In collaboration with I Care Hospital, NOIDA and Lion's Eye Hospital, Ghaziabad, the trust has been conducting eye camps for the detection and surgery of cataracts in patients. In these camps, patients were also given IOL implants free of cost. In addition to this, SAMA has also arranged First Aid Camps for Kavad Yatris since 2001.

Our work continues and we plan to focus our efforts further in the areas of maternal and child health as well as launch vocational training and income generation programs in the areas in which we operate in the coming days.