Georgetown: The Lions Club of Georgetown Stabroek Saturday distributed 160 (bird) kites to less fortunate children within the Leopold Street community of Werk-En-Rust.
The club, which is no stranger to doing service activities, makes it an annual feature to share kites during the Easter season to children who would otherwise not been able to fly kites.
According to the President of the Lions Club, Odessa De Barros, as a signatory project the club would usually receive donations and they would put the additional resources needed to purchase the kites for the children and distribute it on the Saturday before Easter.
The organization, in addition to the activities mentioned, usually does feeding programmes for the drop-in centre at Hadfield Street where they provide a hot meal or breakfast to the orphaned children living there.
Present at the event were President Odessa De Barros, Vice President Horice Mosley, Secretary Maranda Marcus Xavier and Immediate Past President Metilda Rajaram who was coordinator of the programme.
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