Students team up to spend time with boys of Foyer de Nazareth |28 March 2015

The kids of the foyer engaged in various activities with the students

Six of 14 boys aged between six and 17 residing at the Foyer de Nazareth orphanage spent a day of fun and laughter and tried their hands at different activities last weekend after a group of students decided to spend a fun-packed day, sharing in different activities with them.

The group of students from the Advance Diploma Hotel Management (ADHM) course at the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) and Ecole Française was accompanied by their teachers Veronique Dupond, Aurora Sole and Rose-Mayrie Arcambal and the coordinator of the activity Marcus Freminot from STA.

The aim of the activity was to bring the students closer to the community and also make the boys from the orphanage feel at home at their temporarily new location at La Misère.

They were moved there last year as the orphanage at Anse Etoile undergoes renovation works. As the place can accommodate only six boys, the remainder of the group are living with family members.

The activities comprised drawing animated characters on the wall of the playroom, cooking, baking, cutting grass around the compound and cleaning the surrounding grounds.

It was a great moment full of laughter and chatter as the students and the boys went about what they were engrossed in.

“The idea behind such an activity was to give a helping hand to the boys since they are not far from the STA. With the help of our counterparts from Ecole Française we decided to help them feel wanted and have that feeling of belonging in the community and since we are a tourism school, it is not every day that we can do such wonderful activity,” Mr Freminot pointed out.

Students from both institutions expressed their joy to have been able to take part in such interactions and for being able to give a little of their quality time back to the community and to a group who needs such help.  

Kathrina and Chloe from the STA really enjoyed what they did.
“We decided to give something to society, so we chose Foyer de Nazareth. We decided to cook for the boys, clean the surrounding of the house.  It was a team-building between us the students and the orphans. We wanted to put the orphans in a comfortable environment, just to make them feel at home,” the two girls said.

Elia Savy from Ecole Française also wanted to give back to the community.
“I wanted to bring some love and joy to the boys of the foyer and I want other people to do the same,” she said.

At the end of the activity, Sister Jacqueline of the Foyer de Nazareth said they were delighted and really appreciate such activities through the wonderful gesture by the STA and Ecole Française.

“We at the Foyer welcome all the help we can get, every donation. Every help we get can make a difference in the lives of the boys here,” she pointed out.

“Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows,” she quoted Molière’s words.