For the seventh year, for kids at the Child Protection & Development Center in Huay Yai, Easter meant hunting for eggs.
Slum children and those attending the Human Help Network Thailand’s Drop-In Center joined in the March 28 celebration.
Otmar and Margret Deter, Tony Portman, Brian Sonhurst, Peter Barns, Marliese Fritz, Simoni Riva-Adami and Elfi’s Internationale Meditations Group organized the day’s activity, with the Deters and German language Ladies Club serving as the main sponsors.
Radchada Chomjinda and Elfi Seitz welcome the children and show the poster with all the paper Easter eggs where the numbers for the lottery were hidden. And of course the pet dog of the center, Geo, is always around Elfi.
A nice decorated stage and a long table with lots of presents were on display and all the children went there to take a careful look what all they might win later on.
But before the big lottery, all the kids could look for Easter nests in the big garden. First the little ones had the chance and later on the elder ones were allowed to follow. Each child could take one ‘nest’ and in case they would take more they were banned from the lottery.
In the Easter egg nests were no real eggs, but ones with non-melting chocolates and other things inside.
The money is presented to Radchada. All the sponsors are standing in the middle of the picture.
The lottery followed and each child could take a number from behind a paper-Easter egg, which were pasted on a board.
Sponsors used the time while everyone was eating to give 12,000 baht to HHN Director Radchada Chomjinda.
“It is so beautiful that our children can join a party like this,” she said. “Even though most of them are Buddhists, this feast will stay in their mind forever.”
After dinner, the children performed a few dances that they made up by themselves and got extra presents for their efforts.
The children happily show their presents.
The diligent volunteers of the HHNFT.
