TU - BISHVAT IN KOSTANAY

For celebrating Tu- Bishvat in Kostanay Hesed children of different age gathered. The day was solar and, the mood at all was perfect.

Nastya Savchenko - presenter of the meeting -  prepared the fascinating message on a history of a holiday: has told what fruits this day necessary to eat in Israel, what trees grow on ground ours ancestry, about, why the New year of trees is celebrated at this particular time of year. Also Nastya, not so long ago visited Israel, showed to children photo and video recording "From life of Israel", made by her during travel.

Then children, having divided into groups, begun doing mangers for birds, to prepare fruit salad, to sign congratulatory cards for Hesed clients. And due to remarkable idea of one of the members of Children's club JCC - ten years' Sergey - the guys have created the whole collection " fruit little men" and drawn " a tree of desires ", under which each participant of a holiday found at the end of evenings a sweet gift.

Volunteers of Community centre have lead among the kids a cheerful lottery, prizes for participation in which were fruit - oranges, bananas, pomegranates, raisin, nuts and etc.

The holiday finished with tea drinking. Then the senior guys followed the kids to home. By all was cheerful, all wished each other good luck, health, and love.

Eugenia Parkhomenko