Marie Enaud and Juliette from France were in Chennai volunteering for a month in Chennai CSR projects. Along with the CSR Team, they directed and staged a musical drama named - "I want to become a Star" with 30 children from Padma Adarsh. The grand final performance was held on 21 July'10 in the school and also in Steria office during the POB awards ceremony. All the children who enacted in the musical drama received gifts sponsored by Subir Singh (Sales) of Noida. As part of the musical drama, the children learnt a French song, an African song along with rhythms apart from our very own India Bollywood dances.

Marie Enaud and Juliette Alouis, volunteers from Paris spent one month in Chennai working in 3 schools in the month of July'10.

Along with Shobha Tirkey, Marie and Juliette, joined in the Acrylic Painting Workshop conducted by Mrs.Kuppu, the Drawing Teacher in France sponsored Mahabalipuram Senior Secondary School. 30 students were taught the various techniques of colouring and painting. A box of acrylic paint and brush were presented to each student. Other stationery items were gifted to the school. 30 students participated in the painting workshop.

Marie, Juliette and Shobha also conducted the flower making workshops and paper craft workshops in HQ School (Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School, Thiruporur). Flowers were sent to the staff of HQ by the children. More than 90 students participated in these workshops spread over 5 days.

Apart from the above, Marie and Juliette along with Kanchana conducted regular classes for children of Class 3 from Padma Adarsh Primary School, teaching rhymes, English words, conducting quizzes and drawing lessons.

Life Skills Training

In the month of July'10, more than 200 girl students from Nigdi Girls High School Pune attended the "Life Skills Training Program" and completed 6 sessions. In August'10, more than 600 girl students of Ganage High School, Dnyandeep Vidyalaya and Subodh Vidyalaya will be covered in a similar training programme. Topics related to adolescence, doubts and possible solutions to problems are discussed and addressed in these sessions.

Reading Habits

From 1 August 2010, Newspaper in Education, an initiative launched by Times of India was initiated to be launched in Steria supported schools in Noida. The special newspaper edition for children will be distributed every day at a concession by Times of India. With this initiative Steria would reach out to more than 700 children in Noida for a period of six months on all working days.