This term the hope for kids service group decided to spend a large portion of our time in “ planning and initiating” the Avurudhu celebrations. Avurudhu is a celebrated cultural event of the Sinhalese and Tamils, it’s also called the Sinhala and Tamil new year. Our “ Goal” for this year was to help the kids at the Hospital celebrate their respective religious festivals as we realized throughout our constant visits how important religion is to these kids. We did this for Christmas and we are glad to have done it again for the Buddhist and Tamil kids.
One of the main obstacles we came across was the singing of “ avudrudu” songs as some of the service members are not Sinhala speakers and thus we had to translate it into English or teach them. However after hours of practice I was glad that I and another native Sinhala speaker were able to overcome that problem by teaching them individually the tricky pronounciation.
It’s through our persistent effort into the Avurudhu celebration, which helped us achieve what we have now.
Personally we all felt this would be a great event to open to the public and spread the message of the hope for kid’s service. We realize the importance of getting others outside our school community involved in this project, thus we have sent out invitations out. (Shown below) Working “Collaboratively” with others, especially other cancer foundations will help us create more of a long lasting impact on the life of the kids.
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