Community Impact
We look to leverage our scale for good and use our ability to innovate quickly to strengthen communities around the world where our employees live and work. We address immediate needs—such as reducing family hunger and homelessness and serving communities in need following natural disasters. The common thread through all of our work is a focus on ensuring that underserved and underrepresented youth in India have an opportunity to thrive.
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Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) India is a comprehensive STEM education program designed to increase access to high-quality AI and computer science education for underserved government school students across India. Between 2021 and 2025, the program impacted 4.8 million students across 50,000+ government schools in India. In 2025, AFE India announced its commitment to provide AI literacy and career exploration opportunities to 4 million underserved students by 2030. -
Amazon India's employee welfare initiative, the Pratidhi Scholarship, is transforming lives of associates' children across India through education support and mentorship programmes. Initially focused on children of delivery associates, the scholarship now extends to families of associates working throughout Amazon's operations network. -
Amazon India has set up a network of rest points for delivery associates across major cities such as Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. These centres serve as dedicated rest stops for delivery associates, providing essential amenities such as air-conditioned seating areas, clean drinking water, mobile charging points, washrooms, and first-aid kits. What makes Project Ashray truly distinctive is its inclusive approach. The facilities welcome all delivery associates, regardless of which company they deliver for, completely free of cost.
Creating new grounds for equitable education
Reinforcing its commitment to India's skill development vision and expanding equitable access to AI education, Amazon launched two AI Skills vans as part of its Think Big initiative. These vans are mobile learning labs designed to bring foundational cloud computing and AI education directly to government school students and communities with limited access to emerging technology resources.
