It's a Tiny Star New Year!
Today we celebrated the Sinhala / Tamil New Year with the most precious ones at the Dehiwela Community Concern Center in Sri Lanka. We started the Tiny Star preschool, one of our outreach programs to the poor, 30 years ago to meet a pressing need in the seaside slum on the outskirts of Colombo. We discovered a lot of school age kids who weren't able to attend public school. Instead, they were required to look after their younger siblings for the day. So, we opened the Morning Star School for kids who had never gone, and subsequently needed to provide a place for their younger brothers and sisters...Tiny Star Preschool was born!
We have a wonderful staff who love these kids so much. It's a joy and a real blessing to watch them learn to trust and blossom...
I love portraits and took the opportunity to collect a few of the wee ones who got all dressed up for the occasion...
Beautiful, handsome, goofy, happy, serene. You captured so many emotions beautifully.
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DeleteSuch beauties with their big eyes and lovely innocent poses. Happy Avurudu Tiny Stars. God bless you all ❤️
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DeleteSuch lovely kids and such lovely pictures
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