Friday, November 19, 2010

Elderly members & kids celebrate Diwali











Team Mission5 hosted the Diwali celebrations with much aplomb at Shree Shirdi Vrudhashram & Home for Mentally Retarded, an old-age home in Kithigannur, on 5th Nov 2010.

For the first time, children from Kannada Adarsha Mahila Makkala Samsthe, Parvatinagar [Bangalore] got a chance to visit the elderly home and interact with the elderly members.

On the auspicious occasion, elderly members, kids and M5 volunteers together lit the lamps and greeted each other for good health and prosperity. The celebrations at old-age home concluded with distributing sweets to all the elderly members.

Children were taken back to the orphanage, and given hand sparkles and flower pots. Together the volunteers and children enjoyed the evening amid colorful sparkles and lights.