A visit to the orphanage and the senior citizens home.

Ace International School Lahore organized a community service activity to mobilize our youth to take part in volunteering activities as part of the Global Youth Service Day even with regard to iEARN's Youth Volunteering and Community Service Program .

The students of Ace International had chosen to help the orphans and the handicapped students. Two bake sales were held in the school premises to collect money for tea party to be arranged in the orphanage. We had an enthusiastic response.
Every one participated in the sale and purchase of food items and we collected Rs 6900/- Meanwhile students from Class 5-2 volunteered to bring gift boxes containing useful objects for every one in the orphanage.

Again the response we got from school was excellent and we collected over 50 gift boxes. A tea party was held on saturday 9th April and was a great success. Th eold ladies were the first ones to be served with the cakes and gifts, then the handicapped and the abondoned children.

Their eyes were gleaming with joy and they had an afternoon of fun which was a great change from their normal routine.

For the students it was a very moving experience opening their eyes to a different kind of life in a different world. They all promised to go there on a regular basis. The people at the orphanage warmly requested us to keep up our visits.

The students have been involved at all levels to improve their surroundings. three groups of students from O'1 took up painting projects in the Junior Section to brighten up the corridors and to increase the knowledge of the students about relevant topics,

In the attached picture we can see the students painting and enthusiastically interacting with people from the orphanage. Children patrolled the place and ensured that no litter/rrubbish was thrown here and there they also scrubbed the desks and supervised the unkeep of other furniture as well. They made awareness posters to explain the impostance of neat surroundings. The activity had a good impact on our fellow friends who observed us carrying out this activity.

This activity was carried out by 10 students and it was facilitated by Uzma Latif and Mashal Najeeb.

Uzma Latif
Ace International School
Lahore,
Pakistan.