Children in Action go Christmas caroling
If you hear someone singing Jingle Bells or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, tomorrow night, peek out your window because it may be the children from the National Organization for the Prevention of Child Abuse spreading holiday cheer. News Five’s Hyacinth Latchman was invited to a special preview at the NOPCA office today.
They are the Children In Action of NOPCA Belize and tomorrow night twenty-two of them will be going to different areas of the city caroling and leaving behind their message of Christmas. Claudette Santos told us more.
Claudette Santos, NOPCA Representative
“Most of them have musical backgrounds, so we decided to have this caroling because the children, since they are on vacation they really don’t have much to do. So we decided to have them utilize their musical backgrounds by singing and we are taking them caroling for the Christmas and they are all excited.”
And the Children in Action are quite optimistic about going out caroling in Belize City. They all feel like Christmas is a time of love.
Kendra Buller
“I think it is a good idea for us to go out and sing for other people. I feel great about it, I feel excited.”
Herschel Armstrong
“Christmas is the best time of year for me. I don’t know about anyone else but it’s the time when the city is light up. Everything is just good. I just feel good at Christmas time. I like singing and I am looking forward to Christmas this year and every year.”
Golda Samuels
“Well my feeling is sharing a part of me with other people by going caroling in the streets.”
NOPCA Coordinator Margaret Taegar hopes that every location visited will be blessed with the true meaning of Christmas.
Margaret Taegar, Coordinator
“We hope to leave a lot of happiness with everybody that we stop at. And peace and definitely some peace because so much is happening in the world today. We do need something to look forward to in terms of happiness.”
The children of NOPCA urge other kids to join the Children in Action because they go on many expeditions but more than anything they learn to love and care for others. They say being around their peers helps build their self-esteem.
Hyacinth Latchman for News Five.
Beginning at six p.m. tomorrow night, the children will visit the Sister Secilia Home on Wilson Street, then make their way to the Children’s Home, Youth Hostel and then back to NOPCA’s office at the old hospital.
