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Last Friday the 17th of December the Hogar del Niño invited me to play Santa at their annual Christmas Party, which was held in their school/day care facility the ‘Hogar del Niño’ in La Romana town. Arriving to the Hogar del Niño on Friday morning was very exciting, the sound of the children’s happy voices filled the air, Christmas music was playing and the smiles on the little children’s faces beamed out of their classrooms, where they sat patiently waiting to receive their gifts! Every year at Christmas time the more than 1,000 children cared for at the Hogar del Niño receive one main gift (a doll for girls and a car/truck for boys, for example) as well as a package of cookies, chocolates and sweeties. The thousands and thousands of candies are donated every Christmas by the more than 100 Casa de Campo ladies who attend the Christmas Cafe de La Leche, held at the home of Xiomara Menendez. This year I was honoured to be able to help give  out the gifts alongside some of the other volunteers – arriving into each classroom to the cheers, hugs, and excited squeals of all the adorable children was a wonderful experienced and seeing all their happy, smiling faces when they received the gifts has kept me smiling for days. Merry Christmas everyone and many many thanks to everyone who contributes, donates and volunteers to help the very special children of the Hogar del Niño! Here the photos I took in between giving out the gifts:
DOWNLOADING THE PHOTOS To download these photos, follow these easy steps: 1. Right click on the SMALL photo (before it has been enlarged) 2. Chose ‘Open link in new tab’ 3. Right click on the individual photo and click ‘Save photo as’ A DESCARGAR LAS FOTOS 1. Haz click derecho cuando la foto es pequeña 2. Elige la opción ’Abrir link en la nueva tabla’ o ‘Open link in new tab’ 3. Haz click derecho en la foto y elige ‘Guardar foto’ o ‘Save photo as’