Happy New year to all of you :) Wish all your good dreams come true in the days ahead :)
We celebrated Christmas last week in our own way by becoming a one-day Santa. Karthik from Infosys told us about the "Become a Santa" initiative being done by Sneham group. We thought of doing the same in our own path - gifting children with items that motivates them to learn.
The Sunday before Christmas, Senthil and Karthik went to PUSH, collected the wish list of children there. Children selected their desires from the the list of items such as Bharathiyar Kavithaigal, Oil Painting materials, Puzzle books etc. They also came out with their own wish. Naveeen for example, asked for a Englsh-Tamil dictionary which was not in our list. We then started buying the items in the following week and on the day of Christmas, we distributed the items they had wished. We took only 3 photos during the day of Christmas, which can be seen here.
We also played the Christma-ChristChild game in a different manner. We would like to keep this as suspense until one of our Shubodayans come up to express it in the comments section. Let us see who would be the first?
P.S 1: Title of this post is reminiscent of the email subject we sent during the invitation. We actually became one-day Santa only on the day of the Christmas and not before we invited you all :)
P.S 2 : Shruti, Pradeep and all others who didnt want to express their anger on us for not publishing the happenings immediately, Apologies from us. We would try to correct this mistake in future.
We celebrated Christmas last week in our own way by becoming a one-day Santa. Karthik from Infosys told us about the "Become a Santa" initiative being done by Sneham group. We thought of doing the same in our own path - gifting children with items that motivates them to learn.
The Sunday before Christmas, Senthil and Karthik went to PUSH, collected the wish list of children there. Children selected their desires from the the list of items such as Bharathiyar Kavithaigal, Oil Painting materials, Puzzle books etc. They also came out with their own wish. Naveeen for example, asked for a Englsh-Tamil dictionary which was not in our list. We then started buying the items in the following week and on the day of Christmas, we distributed the items they had wished. We took only 3 photos during the day of Christmas, which can be seen here.
We also played the Christma-ChristChild game in a different manner. We would like to keep this as suspense until one of our Shubodayans come up to express it in the comments section. Let us see who would be the first?
P.S 1: Title of this post is reminiscent of the email subject we sent during the invitation. We actually became one-day Santa only on the day of the Christmas and not before we invited you all :)
P.S 2 : Shruti, Pradeep and all others who didnt want to express their anger on us for not publishing the happenings immediately, Apologies from us. We would try to correct this mistake in future.
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Hey why to apologies, you guys have done a fabulous job and made the Christmas eve special for those lovely kids. I really appreciate the effort taken by Senthil and karthik in making this event a big success.
ReplyDeleteCongratulation guys, wish you all a very happy new year. Shubodaya will rock all time.
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeleteI have got my Greeting card from Shubodaya, it is great. My christma child is Jothi Raj. He as drawn a good flower painting for me in his New Year wishes card.
This is really a good initiative by Karthik, credit also goes to Senthil and D.Karthik who made this event a great success than expected.
Keep up the good work guys, hope other Shubodayans too would have got the greeting with some wishes from their christma child, please share your excitements or surprise you felt, it will really encourage people who took effort in organizing this event.
Thanks,
Pradeep.
Thanks Pradeep. Yes, we asked to choose Shubodayans names form a lot and children enthusiastically started to express their new year wishes by writing or drawing in the greetings. Hope most of the Shubodayans would have got the greetings by this time.
ReplyDeleteHey Congrats guys... Without great co-ordination, this big event wouldnt have been made possible... Job well done!!!
ReplyDeleteHi friends,i got greeting card from ajay,it was very nice.The inspiration from you all makes the children much more talented and energetic.continue your good work.
ReplyDeleteAll the very best....