Cancer Hospital Visits

As we all know that few years ago, OSC built a playroom for the benefit of the children in the Maharagam Cancer Hospital in order to help them escape from the medical treatment they are undergoing. The primary focus of building this playroom for the children was to allow them to play and engage in all sorts of educational and aesthetic activities to help them improve in their mental/physical contentment and stability. We pay visits to the hospital on Thursdays and interact with them; playing games, making them draw and colour etc.
This was a whole new learning experience for me as I have never interacted with sickly children suffering from cancer before.I felt like I had to play a new role when engaging with these children. This was a real challenge ahead of me because there were so many things I had to bear in mind while interacting with them. I realised that I had to be very polite and kind to these children helping them out to overcome their suffering. In a way I was in advantage as I was a native I could communicate with the children in Sinhalese and was able to understand them easily where as my colleagues had trouble mingling with them. In such circumstances I was able to help my friends as well. Besides the language barrier we all were successful in delivering to the purpose overcoming the difference.
Cancer is a global issue affecting millions of people worldwide. I realised our attempt was a small but affective one in helping combat cancer. In my two years of community service I have been able to be committed to the Hope for Kids project through out giving my fullest support in helping these cancer affected children.