Thank you Pune staff - Pune Steria staff raised Rs.37445 for Rajshree

Pune Steria staff raised Rs.37445 for corrective eye surgery for Rajshree, the daughter of Shantabai Wagh, who works in our Steria cafeteria. She has a serious eye problem - 'refractive error', on account of a fire accident. On 16 Apr'09, Rajashree successfully underwent eye surgery in one of her eyes. Her second eye will be operated in June. Thank you Pune staff....

Summer Camps 2009 - Chennai School

We are pleased to inform you that the summer camps for children of Steria supported schools, held across the month of April 2009, have been successfully completed last week.
Apart from our sincere thanks to our staff volunteers who joined in whenever they could, with a helping hand, we would also like to place on record our sincere thanks to the Facilities Team (Anand, Bharath and Ramnath) for their continued support, specially for transport and lunch arrangements.
This year, we had a number of activity based learning sessions at the summer camps for the students. First of all, we split the summer camps into four categories.

1. Primary Schools - Three days each in the three schools
2. High Schools - Five days on Steria Chennai campus for five schools
3. Self Defense Training for Girls - Five days training for 50 girls
4. Tailoring and Zardosi work for girls - 25 days course for 45 students (will be completed in May)

90 students from three Primary Schools, learnt to make hand crafted items like puppets, bookmarks, dolls, gift boxes, apart from participating in various games of skill. The camp was conducted in partnership with Chrysalis Events and Crafts.
120 students from five High Schools, learnt to make greeting cards, jewel boxes, puppets, recycling paper and creating pens stands, etc with this paper, face masks apart from learning dance and participating in various games of skill, etc. The camp was conducted in partnership with SPW India. All the students were given certificates of participation after the concluding session held on 30 April.
Self Defense Training for girls was conducted in partnership with Krav Maga - an Israeli form of martial arts, where girls learnt the art of self defense. These classes were held at Padma Adarsh High School, everyday from 7.30am to 9am from 27 April to 4 May.
Tailoring and Zardosi work for girls is being conducted in Padma Adarsh High School for 25 children and Medavakkam High School for 10 children in the month of April and May 2009.

Summer Camp - Pune Schools

A five day Summer Camp was held between 16 April and 20 April for 170 children from seven Steria supported schools in Pune. The venue this year was the Nigdi Girls School, for the day long activities every day for the five days - 9am to 5 pm. The purpose of this exercise was to let the children have fun after year long serious studies, but at the same time learn some useful creative skills in art and craft, choreography and fashion modelling. They also spent considerable time in improving their English language skills with the help of the well known organization Kshitij. They were encouraged to write stories, compose poems and even tried their hand at editing a magazine.
The children were all excited to know and learn about - how to walk the ramp and be a fashion model - a course handled by professional trainers. Along with this they were also exposed to the fundamentals of choreography and how to sync dance steps to music, create totally new dance movements and express stories, emotions, feelings and thoughts with the help of these movements.
At the grand finale on 21 April'09, which happened on Steria Pune campus, the children very proudly and confidently exhibited all that they had learnt during the five day camp - with a colorful medley of fashion, dance and music.