Dusshera Celebrations - Mission5 Special

MISSION 5 celebrated the festival of Dusshera with great zeal and traditional fervour, with the children from Kannada Adarsha Mahila Makkala Samsthe & the elderly members from Shree Shirdi Vrudhashram & Home for Mentally Retarded, Kithigannur. Together the members made a 7-foot effigy of Ravana.

Kids were explained the mythological background of burning the effigy of Ravana as getting rid of ten bad qualities, which are represented by the 10 heads of Ravana as follows:-
1) Lust
2) Anger

3) Delusion

4) Greed

5) Over Pride

6) Jealousy

7) Negative Thoughts
8) Demonic Intellect

9) Ego

10) Demonic Will.

The elderly members at the old-age home were treated with special lunch and sweets while children the orphanage were offered snacks and sweets.

The event concluded with distributing sweets among sweets were distributed among the kids & elderly members.