Santa Claus visits the Christmas Fair
03 Dec 2008 07:31 am
At a recent Christmas Fair the children from the Drop-In Center were invited to set up a stall and sell their wares. Many of the children come to us with problems and one way of calming them down is to get them to design and make a decorative mirror. They sit and work, and using traditional designs they carve the image onto a mirror, a job that can take many days to complete. At the Christmas Fair they were given the opportunity to sell the mirrors that had produced and there is something special when you see their face when a customer wants to buy a mirror that one of the teenagers has produced. It gives them a sense of achievement and recognition that they can do something useful with their lives.
The Fair was made even more special when Santa Claus arrived, though some of the teenagers were a bit nervous when he climbed behind the stall for a photograph. Many of them have never celebrated Christmas and Santa Claus was someone they just saw on the TV. You are never too old to celebrate Christmas.