Uber partners with Snapdeal this Children’s Day

by Shrutee K/DNS

Mumbai, 14^th November, 2016: Uber, the world's largest on-demand transportation company, has announced its nationwide campaign for Children’s Day, ‘Unbox Uber: Colour A Smile’.

Uber and Snapdeal have come together to paint the lives of children with happiness by facilitating donations of crayons color packs for underprivileged kidsRiders can purchase Camlin crayonsthrough the Snapdeal App and Uber and Snapdeal will help deliver the numerous donations to children in these NGOs. Donated crayons are directly delivered to NGOs - Teach for India, Oxfam India, Bhumi, Care India, Give India and more.

“Through Snapdeal Sunshine, our CSR arm, we continue to provide our users various options to support social causes through in-kind donation.  We are sure that this joint initiative with Uber will get a resounding response. Small gestures like these mean the world to young recipients and encourage our NGO partners in their noble pursuits,” said Rajnish Wahi, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Communications, Snapdeal.  

How It Works: Between 14th to 21st November, 2016, donate Camlin crayons on the Snapdeal app & website, Your products will directly be delivered to partner NGOs by Uber and Snapdeal

For more info click here 

Donate colour pencils directly through the Snapdeal website here

About Uber: Uber is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our app, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. From our founding in 2009 to our launches in hundreds of cities today, Uber's rapidly expanding global presence continues to bring people and their cities closer. Today Uber is available in 450+ cities across 73 countries. The service is available in 29 Indian cities -- more than any other country outside the United States www.uber.com

About Snapdeal: Snapdeal’s vision is to create India’s most reliable and frictionless commerce ecosystem that creates life-changing experiences for buyers and sellers. In February 2010, Kunal Bahl along with Rohit Bansal, started Snapdeal. Today Snapdeal is India’s largest online marketplace, with the widest assortment of 65 million plus products across 1000+ categories from over 125,000 regional, national, and international brands and retailers. With millions of users and more than 300,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping destination for Internet users across the country, delivering to 6000+ cities and towns in India. In its journey till now, Snapdeal has partnered with several global marquee investors and individuals such as SoftBank, BlackRock, Temasek, Foxconn, Alibaba, eBay Inc., Premji Invest, Intel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Ratan Tata, among others.