Jan 7th, 2010 01/07/10 | Community Stories

CCF celebrate the Holiday in style

If you think you might find it a problem to organise a holiday gathering for 15, or a challenge to invite 50 good friends to join you for an afternoon’s entertainment, or maybe just a bit demanding to invite 200 or neighbours round for an evening frolic, spare a thought for those faced with the CCF Holiday challenge – a party for 500 plus. On 25th December, CCF’s organiser’s confronted this challenge head on and conquered it with ease. The site of the mammoth gathering was CCF4. The furthest flung of CCF’s facilities and home to its vocational centre, it is blessed with enough space to allow every CCF kid and the staff that came with them from their home facilities not just to meet and mingle but to party. And they partied all day, and joked all day and played games all day. For some it was an utterly memorable first – a world of friendship and pleasure that had previously existed for them, if it ever did, only in their dreams. For others it was a chance to renew old friendships or make new ones. The band pounded out their songs and music; the choir and solo singers were unforgettable; food was plentiful and the soft drink flowed in an ever-welcome, iced stream. When the sky dimmed and the sun slipped away, the lights of the Christmas tree, the setting for dozens of photographs destined for sponsors across the globe, twinkled ever more brightly and the dancing began. Fast music and slow music, old music and new music, loud music and soft music all bumped into each other as their decibels bounced or oozed from the speakers. Each variation directed the dancers’ rythym, switching the happy hundreds in an instant between the elegant, swaying, restrained moves of Khmer traditional dance to the energy-eating jabs and frantic motions of the modern. The evening and the event ended with the giving of gifts. The distribution of the gift bags, one for each of the CCF kids, peaked the excitement level of the day. Named for and aimed at each individual, their contents were shared and admired on the buses which carried their loads of singing, contented party goers back to their facilities. The Annual Party was over – but there’s another to look forward to next year. 7.1.2010.Photo1 7.1.2010.Photo2
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