End of the year Reflection

The last session of Prison Babies(6th of May, 2010) was canceled because the teacher from the prison who was supposed to bring the children got ill and couldn't come. It was really disappointing, since it was meant to be the LAST session of the year before going into the break. And, unfortunately, there's a little possibility that this was really the last session of all since they might be moving their prison to Kalutara. If it is, it'd be really sad we couldn't even say goodbye
:( HOPE NOT, hope we'll never have to say goodbye.

This year, we made a huge progress in helping Prison Babies. Since the head of the prison has changed to a very supportive guy, we could get the permission much easier to bring the children to our campus and even visit the prison for us; we could visit them only once last year, however, we went there more than once for sure this time !

We had a successful fundraise this year as well. Thanks to the Language B department who sold the tickets to raise the fund while we didn't even ask them for, and Mrs. Nicky Paull, who kindly gave donations, we could buy the basic needs and the bed mattresses for the children.
We brought the children to our school and tried to do a lot of new stuffs with them rather than just playing in the playground, so that they can learn more, experience more and enjoy more. We tried to watch the animation movie which was a completely new culture that they haven't seen, and we painted with water color or colored pen and pencils (and we found potential in them :P). We also went to McDonald with them and played at the McDonald playground which was another new environment.

We believe that children enjoyed the time this year with us as we did and hope to see them next year as well. We will organise more fun and exciting activities to do with them next time!