Teens honour grandmothers with public birthday celebrations

Rajkot | Monday | 5th November, 2018

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This was an attempt to give them what they deserve.”These old women don’t know when their birth dates so we celebrated everybody’s birthday together. For the first time, she witnessed her own birthday celebrations But Namera was not alone to receive this pre-Diwali gift. RAJKOT: Eighty-year-old Kanu Namera could barely control her emotions when youngsters clapped and sang birthday song for her. So we decided to celebrate their birthdays in the same way as ours.”The youngsters bought 10 cakes, balloons and candles, decorated the village school with asopalav and made rangoli with ‘Happy birthday’ message.Another boy Meet Hitesh said, “Our grandmothers got emotional when we gave them this public honour and recognized their efforts. There were tears of happiness all around.”Geeta Sanchla, a government school teacher who organized this event, said, “Old people are just like children and they want special attention..