{"id":269,"date":"2011-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-03-27T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:46:59","slug":"orphanage-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Orphanage Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus Healing Seva Youth Group started the New Year by going to a  place which housed two orphanages: Morning Stars Orphanage and Sunshine  Orphanage in Kiambu donate foodstuff, to play with the children there, and to  give them Reiki Healing. Here are their stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viddhi Patel,  9yrs (Reiki Level 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had taken 5 loaves of \u2018Hot Loaf\u2019 bread for the  orphans. I felt nice throughout the time I was shown around the orphanage by  two of the orphans whose names were Jane and Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>We saw the rabbits, the cow, and the dog, the hall  where they ate their meals and the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The children played a game \u2018I sent a letter to my  father \u2026..\u2019. their reaction was very nice and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I gave them Reiki Healing as they sat at a table. It  was very nice for them and for me as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>Janvi Shah  10yrs. (Reiki Level 1)<\/strong>    <\/p>\n<p>We went on  Sunday 9th to Kiambu to an orphanage called Sunshine Orphange. When  we reached there the orphan children welcomed us by singing a song. <\/p>\n<p>After that we  gave them the stuff we had bought for them. I had taken bread, butter and flour  for them.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw  how they were staying, I thought that we should go again and give them some  more food, clothes etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay Shah 12  years (Reiki Level 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday  January 9th, we went to and orphanage called Sunshine Home. I  donated biscuits and milk. They welcomed us nicely.<\/p>\n<p>I felt their  life was hard.<\/p>\n<p>We gave all  the kids Reiki and blessed them. <\/p>\n<p>They sang a  song for us and when we were leaving they told us to come again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bhavik  Kumbharana 12 yrs (Reiki Level 3A)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed  very much when we went to morning Stars Orphanage on 9th January. I  took 24 kgs of maizemeal for them.<\/p>\n<p>When I  reached there, I felt so sorry for them because they have no parents. What I  liked about them is the way they all came out to greet everyone (the Lotus  Healing Seva Youth Group).<\/p>\n<p>They told me  their names, there were so many, I have forgotten their all their names, but I  didn\u2019t forget their faces.<\/p>\n<p>They took me  all over the orphanage, to the farms, wells, sheds, etc.<\/p>\n<p>When they  were all playing the game \u2018I sent a letter to my father \u2026\u2019, I also felt like  playing with them. <\/p>\n<p>When I gave  them Reiki healing, they also started praying. Lastly, they all said they felt  very good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleena Rupani  12 years ( Reiki Level 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had a lot  of fun during the trip to the orphanage; spending time with the children was a  very nice experience. I noticed that there was not one of them wasn\u2019t smiling!<\/p>\n<p>During the  trip each one of us had to pick a partner, I didn\u2019t know who to pick but a young  girl who was about five years old grabbed my hand and started showing me  around. Her name was Sarah and she was such a sweet girl!<\/p>\n<p>I thought the  place was quite nice, they all had their own beds and they all had many  friends. They all ate together and did almost everything together. It was like  one very big family! Which I thought was very nice!<\/p>\n<p>The girls and  boys slept in different places. There were about three rooms that I remember  for the girls, they were all of different sizes. There was one big room where  most of the girls slept, there was one other room for the small children and  another for the high school girls who only came for a while and went back to  school. They had a lot rabbits that were very cute and a few boys were the ones  who train and breed them. They had one big dining room with a painting at the  end saying \u2018Morning Stars\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I gave them a  couple of clothes and a lot of green gram.<\/p>\n<p>When they  finished showing us around there we showed them a game and left them to play  it. they were having so much fun and all of them were enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n<p>We gave Reiki  healing to the children. They took a lot of healing. I was happy to give them  Reiki because they are such nice children and I know they need it. I would love  to visit them again soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harleen Golkaldas&nbsp;  15&nbsp; years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 9th January, the Lotus  Healing Seva Youth Group went to the Morning Stars Orphanage. <\/p>\n<p>We left at about 9 o\u2019clock in the morning  so that we could reach there on time. <\/p>\n<p>I took some clothes and 50 kg of rice. <\/p>\n<p>Once there, we gave our donations and got  a partner from the orphanage to show us their place. We were taken to the girls  and boys rooms, the dining area, their farm and the best part was when they  showed us their really huge rabbits! <\/p>\n<p>After looking around the place, we played  \u2018I Sent a Letter\u2019 with the children over there, and it was really fun to watch  them play it. After that, the youth group, along with Kamal aunty, and some of  the members from the adult group joined in on giving healing to the kids in the  orphanage, the whole orphanage and to the animals and the people who run the  orphanage as well. <\/p>\n<p>It felt really nice to go to the  orphanage and see the lives these kids live, as I take it to be a constant  reminder to appreciate and accept what I have from my heart, and this lets me  know that life is not always easy. <\/p>\n<p>It was a really fun experience, and I hope that we will get another  chance to do something like this again. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo gallery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;noautoplay=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feat=flashalbum&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flotushealingkenya%2Falbumid%2F5583873744678995185%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCOqZhvbE39D8Hg%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueCBYsebrOU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus Healing Seva Youth Group started the New Year by going to a place which housed two orphanages: Morning Stars Orphanage and Sunshine Orphanage in Kiambu donate foodstuff, to play with the children there, and to give them Reiki &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lhsg-youth-group"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}