On 15 October 2025, at the Quai d'Orsay in the presence of Mr Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, OFI received the prestigious Sustainable Development Coup de Cœur Award from the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad for its innovative commitment to sustainable development in India.

Three representatives from OFI's office received the prestigious Sustainable Development Award from the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad on behalf of OFI during a ceremony at the Quai d'Orsay attended by Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

For 2025, the RAJA-Danièle Marcovici Foundation has renewed its financial support for OFI's actions. These are in line with previous projects supported. The aim is to strengthen the capacities and autonomy of rural women in the state of Tamil Nadu, to guarantee their financial independence and food security.

Baptiste and Gaëtan, civic service volunteers at our partner SEVAI's Shanti Matriculation School, share their experiences in India with OFI with le petit journal. Their mission consisted of helping the school's sports teachers to organise one hour of sport per week for all pupils, as well as extracurricular sports activities.

"The 2 years with OFI were really great."

"Those two years with OFI taught me a lot and, above all, reinforced the idea that this was the field I wanted to work in."

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On the occasion of the 2024 Social Impact Award for French citizens living abroad, Corinne Mandjou (Vivre ailleurs on RFI) talks to Benjamine Oberoi.

Le Petit Journal and Malakoff Humanis, sponsor of the 2024 Social Impact Trophy for French citizens living abroad, present Benjamine Oberoi, the winner, and OFI.

In March 2024, Benjamine Oberoi was awarded the Trophée des Français de l'étranger for OFI's work with women and the creation of Self Help Groups.

"Le petit journal" des Français de l'étranger echoes this.

In November 2020, SEVAI-OFI promoted Allur SHG Federation with 78 women members. This enabled setting up a garments production unit as income generation enterprise. Growth of awareness, capacity building, education and availability of information has led to confidence building among rural women.

Maud Le Bars, a Frenchwoman living in India, launched on Mother's Day (Indian), a fundraising campaign with OFI to support the project to re-school children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Bangalore

In December 2019, Benjamine Oberoi was awarded the French Expatriates Trophy for OFI's work with women and the creation of Self Help Groups.
The French expatriate newspaper ‘Le petit journal’ reported on this achievement.

Benjamine Oberoï and his vision of India.

An article published on the News Line blog mentions the award received by OFI on September 25, 2017 for its work in favor of the education of underprivileged populations in South India.

A new article published on the “She the People TV” website which tells the story of Benjamine Oberoi, OFI Vice-President and field coordinator.

A very nice article on the work with our partner SEVAI in the field of Self Help Groups.