JOY FEST – THE FESTIVAL OF GIVING BY PWS, VADODARA
Vadodara: Podar World School, Vadodara celebrated the Joy Fest – 2011 as Joy of Giving Week. A number of activities for Joy of Giving were organized by the school. It all started with the distribution of essential articles such as clothes and food on the first day at the ISCON temple. About 200 needy children and women received the articles collected by the students. It was followed by a rally signifying the message of Joy of giving to the public.
The second day was celebrated by visiting an old-age-home. The students and the members of the staff played games, danced and sang to make the inmates happy and joy full. They were gifted with napkins. The experience was really worthy that many of the students shed happy tears for having enjoyed two hours with the old age home inmates. The inmates were shocked at the respect and the love the children expressed for them.
The third day was with the children of slums at the Friends society an NGO of Vadodara. The school students played, danced and gifted the children with a lot of articles like bicycle, food articles, clothes etc.
A number of dresses were distributed to the slum dwellers at Gothri area on the other days. The joy fest ended by the school Principal thanking the parents for giving the entire support to the school and encouraging their children for the noble cause of Giving to the needy. The JOYFEST added values to the life of the school children. It was a wonderful experience.
