Visit to Orphanage on Christmas
The Interact Club of Jain International Residential School planned to go to an Orphanage on the auspicious occasion of Christmas.
Mother Teresa had once
said, "The hunger for Love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger
for Bread".
Keeping this
in mind, the Interact Club of Jain International Residential School planned to
go to an Orphanage on the auspicious occasion of Christmas. The Board Members
of the club had organized a flameless cooking competition the previous week and took the winners of the competition to the
orphanage as a reward. Ten Board members, Twelve winners, Interact Club teacher
Moderator- Mr. A. J. Babu and the Former President, Roshan Agarwal made the
visit to the Orphanage. The school provided for the food and cakes for the
orphan children. The Interactors also bought stationery items, chocolates and
fruit juice as a Christmas present.
The team
left for the orphanage at 12:45. As soon as we reached the Orphanage, we
started decorating the place with ribbons and chart papers.
We also took a Christmas Tree with us
which also was decorated and kept there. The celebration started with a prayer,
the cutting of the cakes and singing of the Christmas Carols. The Santa Clause
then distributed the gifts to the children. The children were then told to be
seated and the cake was distributed to them. We then played some games with
them like passing-the-parcel and cricket in the field. We also danced and sang
with them, which they enjoyed a lot. One of the unprivileged children, who was
interested in singing, was then handed over the mike. He sang two songs in his
mother tongue, to which all of us danced.
After this the children were
exhausted and hungry. So we sat them down and served them lunch (Semiya-Bhath) ,
which was prepared by the school canteen. The Interactions were so touched that
they preferred to have lunch with them, sitting on the floor. After having the food we returned to play at
the demand of the children. The joyous kids clung to the Christmas Father with
love and affection when the carols were played. The action portrayed was
heart-warming. The society, after having everything, complains of being sad; but
those young ones, didn't have the most precious gifts from God and their
happiness was inexplicable. The students of JIRS were so touched by those
children that they donated their own possessions like jackets and key-chains to
them as a token of love.
The day ended with a thanksgiving
prayer by the children after which the students left for the school. Almost all
the children ran behind the bus and saw-us off till the gate.
-
"We
make a living by what we get.. but we make a Life by what we Give" -
Winston Churchill.
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