16-year old children from Apeejay Schools and from the Apeejay Anand Children's Library Kolkata were enrolled in training sessions conducted by the Tehelka Foundation, over July and August 2010. Delivered as a series of workshops, the training programme focused on the rediscovery of core human values. The workshops tracked responses of the youth to issues like conflict, discrimination and violence and aimed to train them in how to handle such circumstances.

Through a variety of activities ranging from meditation, group interactions, and theatre experiments to creative writing, the participants were trained in dealing with negative emotions and instead focus on human values like transparency, integrity and accountability.

In the second phase of the training programme the children were taken on an outbound community engagement programme to Santiniketan in West Bengal, where they met with local panchayat members and saw leadership at work in a rural context. Apeejay Trust was happy to fund this initiative as through this we have inculcated in our young teens the discernment to build their lives on the right foundation.