ODC 2010 - Chennai T - Fun Kadai

A fun fundraiser the "Chennai T-Fun Kadai" festival was held on Chennai campus on 12 Nov'10, as part of One Day Challenge (ODC) 2010. This was a south Indian version of the hugely successful 'Chatori Gali' held in Noida for ODC 2008 and 2009. There was plenty of yummy food on offer, delicacies like, bondas, vadas, idlis, ela adas, kichadi and so on served with delicious south Indian filter coffee.

Francois Enaud (Chairman & CEO), Dr. Mukesh Aghi (CEO, India & Asia Pacific), Asma Aidi (COO India) and Sanjeev Varma (CFO India) along with Steria Chennai leaders - Vijayalakshmi Sankar, S Ram Kumar, Shobha Duggirala, Srinivas Koppulu had all taken time out to extend their support to this initiative. All the men dressed in traditional south Indian attire - "Veshti- Angavastram" and ladies in south Indian sarees, welcomed the staff to the festival. To set the carnival atmosphere there was scintillating music with an in-house DJ and of course the star attraction - the mega superstar himself - "Rajnikant"- who entertained the huge crowd with some exciting dance numbers.

Gate collections beat all previous records and clocked in at Rs.128000. This figure includes sales of entry tickets as well as generous contributions from our senior management team. We have also received approximately Rs.25000 worth of prizes sponsored by Jet Airways, Emirates and a Sterling Resorts gift voucher from a well wisher, all of which were distributed to the lucky winners at the end of the carnival.

What was even more gratifying was that about 700 of our Chennai staff purchased tickets and participated in this event - which is more than 65% of Chennai staff strength. Infact, we had to regretfully turn down several enthusiastic late comers on account of the overwhelming response.

This event was much more than just yummy food, scintillating music, photo ops and the 'mega star'. It was a great collaborative effort by several teams across Steria Chennai, who worked hard to make this event a great success. Well done Team Chennai.

One Day Challenge scheduled for 19 November'10, is our global 'community day', when all 16 Steria group subsidiaries across Europe, Africa and South East Asia come together to work for the underprivileged community and raise funds for the charities that they support.

In India all funds raised for ODC 2010 will go towards the corpus of SIFGSS, the Steria India Foundation Graduate Scholarship Scheme - an endowment created to provide financial assistance to bright youngsters passing out of Steria supported schools to enable them to study for a college degree and higher university education. These are kids who would otherwise have to drop out on account of difficult financial circumstances at home.