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Deepavali with a difference

Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE: Lions District 324 B1 celebrated Deepavali with 165 orphaned children at the Families for Children, Podanur on October 19. New clothes, crackers, sweets, and fruits were distributed to children. Lions members from Tirupur Central, Coimbatore Central, Ramnagar, Singanallur, Ganapathy and Leos Club of Coimbatore Ramnagar participated.

The children received their Deepavali gifts from Sunbeam Viswanath, Administrator of Families for Children.

She thanked the members of the Lions Clubs on behalf of the children.

The Lions Clubs had distributed sweets and clothes to the children at Families for Children for last Deepavali too, said L.Vijayaraj, Governor of Lions District 324 B1. They have programmes all over the year for the underprivileged and most of the Lions Clubs adopt orphanages to help them with finances and clothes and goodies for the children, he added.

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