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 Christmas and Santa Claus are inseparable. Santa
is the favourite of all, especially children. The children in and
around
Kodambakkam were thrilled when Santa Claus accompanied them for
a rally.
Shabnam Resources, a charitable trust, conducted
a rally called ‘Goodness in All’ on December 24, from Buddha Street,
Kodambakkam. Around 150 children between the ages of 4 and 15
participated in the rally.
M R Hubert, director, Shabnam Resources, said,
“In order to create an awareness of goodness among children, we
conducted the rally.”
Even though the trust has conducted many rallies
earlier to propagate awareness about HIV, child abuse and breast
cancer, it is conducting a rally for the first time as part of
Christmas celebrations.
 The neighbourhood children, who participated in
the walk, were overjoyed on seeing Santa Claus. He presented
chocolates to the passers-by, thereby catching their attention to
the rally.
The group, which passed through United India
Colony, Arcot Road and Rangarajapuram, was the cynosure of all eyes.
 The Christmas celebration did not end here. The
children were eagerly looking forward to the next session.
Funskool (India) Ltd, coordinated by Concern
India Foundation, offered toys to the children. Funskool and Concern
India Foundation collected dolls and informative education-oriented
dolls from many city schools and gave them to the children.
Around 800 children received toys including board
games, Barbie dolls, video games, piggy banks and animal dolls. The
children were indeed very happy to have a doll each for themselves.
 The novel project of Funskool and Concern India
titled ‘A Toy for Every Child’, “aimed to gift a toy to every needy
child in Chennai during the Christmas and New Year season”, said,
Neena Rajiv Govindan, branch manager, Teynampet, Concern India
Foundation.
R Jeswant, general manager, sales and marketing,
Funskool, and Neena Rajiv Govindan distributed the gifts to the
children.
Despite the long walk in the morning, the
children went home happily to show their Christmas presents to their
parents.
U Bakialakshmi
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