International School Seychelles brings cheers to the community |15 December 2022
Holds its second Christmas community projects
A group of elderly people, less fortunate children and persons with disabilities residing in Mont Fleuri are benefitting from a donation from the International School Seychelles (ISS), as part of the school’s Christmas community projects.
On Friday morning, one of the students involved in the project, handed over the donation collected from ISS community, to the district administrator, Steve Noel, in a short ceremony at the school, in the presence of some students and staff.
When accepting the donation, Mr Noel thanked the school for its noble gesture, which he said will go a long way in bringing smile to people’s faces during this festive season.
“We appreciate this gesture and it comes at a good time because we know in Mont Fleuri we like to treat the less unfortunate children, our elderly and people with disabilities, so this donation will be especially for them, to bring a little joy into their lives,” said Mr Noel.
For her part, the school’s principal, Elodie Vallantine, said one of their main school values is community which is emphasised through their motto 'You are born not for yourself, but for the world’. She said it was therefore important to teach the young people to think about the external community and not just themselves.
“We have had the big community Christmas project going on during the last two weeks with a number of events, including this donation in the Mont Fleuri district to make sure that they know there are less fortunate people than them and it is their responsibility to help them,” said the principal.
This is the second edition of the Christmas community projects, which started last year and in another activity earlier last week, the Year 6 student council members enlisted the help of external companies for sponsorship of different items which assisted in their preparation of gift hampers for the Home for the Elderly and President’s Village.
A group of primary and secondary students journeyed to the home for the elderly at Plaisance to perform a repertoire of Christmas Carols to the residents, which included the usual favourites, ’Deck the halls’, ‘Silent Night’, ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ and ‘Away in a manger’, ‘Snowman’ and the timeless local tune ‘Kart Nwel’.
After all the singing and cheering, Year 6 students presented a gift hamper to each resident as well as the three employees at the home.
In another activity, the Year 6 community project group from primary and secondary students of the Duke of Edinburgh programme spent a day with the residents of the President’s Village, where they shared a special lunch. It culminated with the presentation of 34 hampers for the residents and management of the village.
Photos: Louis Toussaint/contributed
