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May millions of lamps illuminate your life with endless joy, prosperity and wealth forever !! Once again, a very Happy Diwali to all !!
It was a great effort put together by all today, that led to a great day of Diwali celebration at Balvihar!!! I am sure everybody enjoyed and learned something new once again today, starting with artwork, followed by games/movie and Puja. It was possible only with the combined effort and support of all the parents who came forward. Thanks to all !!!
With this I would also like to add that there is always scope for improvement, so if you can provide your feedback be it positive or negative, it will help the Balvihar team to continue with more enthusiasm and improve as we move along. You can do so by sending an email to balvihar.allentown@gmail.com or put comments on here above, next to the post.
Balvihar is one big family of families and we would like to celebrate Diwali together on Sunday October 26, 2014 as was communicated earlier. This is going to be a fun filled event with art & craft, games, food and fireworks. Yay!!
Here is the schedule for the day. Groups will be split based on religion classes.
10:15- 11:00 am : Religion 1,2 & 5 Art & Craft - Basement.
Religion 3 & 4 - Games/Movie Temple hall and Ganga room respectively.
11:00- 11:45 am : Religion 3 & 4 - Art & Craft -Basement Religion 1 & 2 - Games/Movie - Temple hall and Ganga room respectively.
11:50- 12:30 pm : Diwali Pooja performed by all kids.
12:30 :12:45 pm : Fireworks and Food.
To run all the events smoothly we will need help from parents. Please come forward and help out as and when needed. We will need lots of volunteers during arts and crafts, especially during the religion 1 & 2 session.
At this point we would also like to THANK all the families who are doing Seva on this special day by preparing food and helping out with craft activities. Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.
We had a wonderful celebration today. I hope you all had good time.
Kudos to all those who made Ravan, who helped in the setup and last but not the least all those who prepared the yummy food.
Happy Dussehra to everybody!! We now look forward to your participation in the upcoming celebrations. Dussehra, as indicted earlier, will be celebrated in Balvihar on October 5th.
Regular classes until 12 pm.
(Gather for the quiz and Raavan Dahan outside, towards the end of the parking lot. Our little Ram, Lakshman, Seeta and Hanuman along with Raavan are getting ready for the big show !
Food ( Chole, Rice and Brownies) will be distributed for free to the Balvihar kids to take home. Parents and non Balvihar kids can buy for a donation of $2.00.
Thanks to all the Raavan making volunteers and the food preparation volunteers for all their help. This wouldn't be possible without your help. More parents are requested to come together as a community to help out. We cannot set a better example for the kids if we come forward and help out. You can email to icanhelp@balviharallentown.org if you want to volunteer.
We look forward to seeing you get involved more and more and help us make this program a great success!!