As Christmas season is around the corner, it is time to spread smiles and joy around. “Unleashing the Joy” becomes even more important as all of us are on a path to restore our normal lives post pandemic. As we all wait for winter holidays during Christmas season, let us a take moment to think about the underprivileged individuals, who cannot celebrate the season with same spirit. Hence, Caritas India, being a humanitarian organization working at the grass root level with its partners throughout the country, aims to reach out to a large number of people in this process of spreading joy during this Christmas season.

The concept of sharing and spreading kindness and love is truly reflected in Sharing Community, one of the Key Strategic Pillars of Caritas India pillars that encourages us to give, share responsibility to mobilize resources and urge our relatives and friends to be a part of this idea of ‘Sharing Community’, during this Christmas Season.

Around us there are so many people who are affected deeply in their everyday lives and try to brave this harsh winter season, it becomes our duty and obligation to reach out to such people and share our spirit of joy and love with them.

Christmas Express: Unleashing the Joy is one such opportunity for all of us to come together as Caritas family and help each other in spreading joy and warmth. Christmas Express would be run during the whole month of December 2022 and is envisioned to have bogies filled with goodies, joy, love and hope, whistling its way through the path less travelled.

1. Warm a Night, Save a Life (Blanket Campaign): As Christmas season falls during winter season in northern parts of our country, this campaign would help share the warmth of the season in the literal sense of the term. One can share a blanket and save a life on the streets. There are various vulnerable individuals /families living on the streets during the cold winter nights without any source of support to face the harsh situations.  One could participate in this Campaign during this Christmas season by sharing their contribution with Caritas India who can run the blanket drive in the identified cities.
2. Anand Bhoj: Meal of Joy – A campaign to run the Community Kitchen by Caritas India staff for the vulnerable people. There are many poor children, homeless elderly and persons with disability who will be supported through the efforts of Caritas staff to organize community kitchen in various states during the month of December. The staff will volunteer to cook and distribute meals to reach out to the poor and needy through this campaign.
3. Educations Kits– This Christmas season, Caritas India aims to bring joy to children from underprivileged background and supplement their formal classroom education through distribution of education kits. At a time when their parents are torn between spending money on basic needs and saving money for new academic year, this campaign aims to meet the need of those children and families of basic educational supplies like pencils, notebooks and other stationery items for home-based educational play, to encourage encourage them to continue their learning process and not stop their advancement of skills, already achieved.

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