HOPE FOR KIDS.

Something that I forgot to include last year was my participation in the service activity, Hope for Kids. In this service activity, we aim to spend one thursday planning what we are doing, and the next thursday visiting the Children's Ward at the Cancer Hospital in Maharagama, which is about 20 minutes away from OSC. Although there have been difficulties in sometimes getting to the Cancer Hospital for various reasons, we try and get there as often as we can. When we are there, we play with the children, as well as sometimes cleaning the space.
The year before, we raised money so that we were able to renovate the children's play room at the ward, so when we go there we try to maintain it.
Sometimes it is difficult to play with the children because I am not fluent in Sinhala, and so the children don't really understand when I try to speak to them, and I just about understand what they are saying. Also, they are very shy, and not always willing to do things with us.
Because the school hired a teacher to be with the children and teach them when they can get to the play area, we have to pay her and so we have to raise money for her salary, which is one of the main goals of our CAS. As we were told that when we raise money, we have to make it "personal to the CAS", we decided to have a movie afternoon, where we showed the film, "My Sister's Keeper". Although it was not a huge sucess, it was a good start to our fundraising.