Providing education and health care to children from poor families has been at the heart of the social intervention programme followed by ICICI Securities (I-SEC) for several years.

I-Sec has partnered with many CSOs in Mumbai. An association with city-based CSO, Door Step, which works to provide education specifically to children living in slums, has been the oldest. I-SEC has adopted the Colaba Municipal School in association with Door Step in 2004 and provide funds for hiring teachers, books and other educational needs. I-Sec also encourages its employees to volunteer their time to join activities at the school.

In the last year, I-SEC also partnered with the K C Mahindra Trust which sponsors the Nanhi Kali project and adopted a municipal school located at Charkop, Kandivli. The school attracts children from the nearby slums and the programme aims to improve the educational standards of the students by giving them extra tuitions. In an adoption programme driven by employees 123 Nanhi Kalis were adopted and helped by employees who volunteered with their time and efforts for making the programme a success.

I-SEC has also worked closely with another city-based CSO, Akansha, which has a focus on supplying quality education to slum children. Last year, two young slum dwellers were trained as a part of a Teacher Training programme. Today these two children have become teachers and are a part of the drive to educate slum children in Mumbai

In the current year I-SEC has adopted the pre-primary section of a municipal school in Lower Parel run by the Paragon Charitable Trust through their CSO called Muktagan. It has also decided to back Support, a CSO working for the rehabilitation of street children who are drug addicts.