The Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of giving" that aims to bring together Indians all across the country and abroad through different acts of giving- money, time, skills or resources. The secret of happiness lies in the joy of giving and sharing. The Week was launched in 2009 .This year the joy of giving week was from September 26, 2010 to October 2, 2010.
Since, our club believes in making a difference differently, this joy of giving week, we came up with a set of events that would help spread happy cheer.
We began the joy of giving week on a completely fun note; our first event on the 26th was ‘Craft-toon’, an art and craft workshop for the kids at Aman Vedika. Our members were very enthusiastic and excited. The kids very doubly excited and were eagerly waiting for us. We taught the kids to make various fun art and craft items like boat, four cups, candles and many more things will colour papers. The younger kids had a gala time colouring cartoons and other pictures. The day ended with the kids and members dancing to various songs. It was one event were we all got to re-live our childhood, involve ourselves with colours, music, run around as a train and much more. We also got to see how talented the club members where when it comes to making art and craft, dancing and singing ;)
Our second event, ‘Symphony’ –a musical evening on, 27th at Sai junior College, for the visually challenged was an evening filled with melodious music where we had members from our club playing and singing various famous Hindi and Telugu songs for the kids there. The highlight of the day was the talented kids who completely mesmerized us with their singing talent. The event was covered by Maa Music.
On 1st, we screened ‘Maya Bazaar’, a Telugu movie at Agape. Agape is a home for the children affected with HIV positive .The word “agape” means God’s love. Their mission is to love and care for the poorest of poor suffering as a result of the global AIDS crisis. It has been one of our main centres for our community service projects. The kids and rotaractors thoroughly enjoyed the movie, we had a wonderful evening.
On October 1st and 2nd we took part in the ‘Karmayog-seva mela’. More than 20 organisations and volunteers had showcased their creative talents and worked through competition cum exhibition. We had a combined stall with the Rotaract Club of Hyderabad North and our aim was to raise funds for polio eradication as a part of rotary’s international project “We shall overcome”. We had members at the stall from 11 am to 8 pm where they enlightened people about polio and ways to eradicate it. We managed to raise a good amount.
This was the first event for the new recruits and the new board and it was a HUGE success. Looking forward for BIGGER and BETTER events. Cheers!
Pooja Vaikari
Director for international service, 2010-2011
