The campaign ‘I Donate Love’ was held by Helping Brainz Romania chapter at Da Camel club Cluj on Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 18:00–23:00 in UTC+02.
The event was an initiative of team Helping Brainz (Romania) fully driven by Yaja Vergara Bonilla to spend some quality time with the lesser privileged children from Romania and create a meaningful connection with them while enjoying together an original Christmas dinner ( which included delicacies from India cuisine) . The Moto, “Because nobody buys Christmas memories with pocket change” itself explained the spirit of the team.
The main objective of the event was to spread one of Helping Brainz’s statements,”We believe that Social work is more than Philanthropy, Sympathy, Empathy and Donations,” followed by the other objectives like, to promote a multicultural atmosphere where a significant number of people from different nationalities, specially from non EU countries, as Latin-American, African, Indian, and Arabic communities living in Cluj Napoca can exchange ideas and share their companionship. To create a meaningful connection between the children and the participants. To help the children improve the art skills and stimulate their creativity. To show the participants and specially the children, the reality of the other kids in India live and what Helping Brainz Organization do in order to promote the child empowerment and lastly, to collect a voluntary economic contribution aimed to support the activity of the beneficiary institution.
The evening opened with an Indian dance performance, followed by an Ice breaker activity between the participants and welcome words. This was further followed by a video presentation of the rapport of Helping Brainz activities on child empowerment. It was a short video about Team HelpingBrainz’s message about the issues related to a lot of less privileged children and also a special message from the Indian children including a few words in Romanian for Romanian kids.
The above warming events were followed by the painting competition called “Let’s encourage each other” drawing contest. The contest’s objective was to motivate the children to draw and paint together, with the young immigrants and participants in general, something related to their future goals and were further taught the importance of dreams. Teams were made in such an order that the participants could interact as much as possible with the kids and help them draw and also all the teams had people from different nationalities along with a Romanian speaker so that the team could share much on culture also. After the Price awarding ceremony for the first and second places, in which the judges selected two best paintings and the two prize winners had to explain their drawings, gifts were exchanged, and everybody went for the Christmas dinner.
At the end of the evening, a voluntary amount of money was asked from the participants. The event ended with the words of gratitude and a vote of thanks.
A video for the event was also made which can further be used for encouraging Indian kids in future children empowerment events that are organized by Helping Brainz.
