Spread the love!

On Friday, the 14th of February, we arranged a Love Campaign, called “Spread the love” in relation to Valentine’s Day. About 1000 children from four schools in Grahamstown attended to the project. Early in the morning, we (Terri- Lynn Penney, Antje Hering and Rieke Heitmueller) visited the Good Shepherd School to start with the project and got help from the Rhodes University student, Nosie Mahlaba Ngqwala.
An organization from Cape Town, called “Magic Live” which campaigns for a good environment and respect between people had the idea of spreading love on Valentine’s Day by hugging people. We joined the project and broaden it by painting red and green hearts on the cheeks of the children, taking photos and getting them on the camera for a little video about this project. The kids had to held posters with the words “SPRED THE LOVE” and “FREE HUGS”, while shouting “Spread the love”, singing or dancing.
The students were very excited about this project, especially the little ones. Our grade nine awarenet learners from the C.M Vellem School helped me painting the kids, so that everyone got a heart on their cheeks.
Furthermore, all the students wore casual clothes in the colors of red and white instead of their school uniform.
To complete this project successfully, we will let some students write a blog about the “Spread the love” project and will interview them for the video.
We had a lot of fun!! :-)

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Posted: February 18th 2014 09:06