Rejoice and shine
Children’s day programme.
Children’s Day in India which
celebrates every 14 November, the birthday of the country’s first Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru. To give tribute, India celebrates this festival with
great enthusiasm every year. Happy birthday to Jawaharnal Nehru ji
special day!
How great is our God that put us in places
to glory his name and serve him.
Playing and celebrating with slum kids makes me delight in the Lord
for giving me this opportunity.
The main event of the day were
1.
50 meter race age 4
to 6 girls and boys
2.
Candy race age
3 to 6
3.
Burst the balloons for all the younger kids.
Purpose
Each child is a
gift of God with special abilities and talents. We strive to provide the
environment in which these unique qualities may be developed to their fullest
potential.
It was such fun to do all the
activities with the kids at the slums but it really makes me think about their
environment. Most of them were out in garbage dumps and sorting out things to sell before coming along to
participate in some fun. An example of what some children have to do:
One boy was burning something so he could
sort out metal and iron. I am not sure what it was but I felt sad to see him
doing this as black smoke was all around him.
Well I started the programme. I saw kids
were ready to run the races and participate in the events but most of them were
barefoot and without proper dress, most were just in shorts and its getting
cold now.
I am sure God is keeping them safe in this
environment.
The most encouraging thing today for me was
to see kids parents coming and watching their kids play and shout for them as
they started to run the race.
So as quite a few parents had gathered I
asked them if I should have a race for them too so
they also got a chance to run the race.
At the end of the day we had small gifts to
give them as 1,2,3 prizes ( thanks to my dear uncle and aunty for blessing us).
So our kids really enjoyed clapping and
shouting when prize distribution was
done.
As a teacher yesterday I was busy with the
students out on a picnic so I had to postpone my plans for today.
I know most of the kids don’t go to school
on functions because they don’t have appropriate dress
and shoes so they are left out of the
school programs.
So I tried to do something for the kids who
miss school and for the one who don’t go to school.
