Und St. Josef war mit zwei Gruppierungen dabei - und natürlich Nadine auch! Wie sie die 72 Stunden erlebt hat, lesen Sie hier:
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The nation wide social campaign, 72 hours action initiated by the BDKJ took effect on Thursday 7th May at exactly 5:07pm. There were a total of 13 groups in Frankfurt, one called youths of St. Josef Bornheim to which i belonged. These groups had in all four projects. namely, Kinder-garden, Retirement home youth house and a centre for women. My group, a group of 8 had the kinder-garden project, a project which they could not have hat a rest until their work came to an end. The launching took place at the Liebefrauenberg in the city where leaders from every group went up stage to introduce the groups and to say what they had in stock for the project.This was accompanied by animation from a group called “four men on the kitchen floor". After getting our assignment, we then spend the rest if the evening in the parish planning for the next day which ended at about 11pm with a super of Pizza.
Friday was dedicated wholly to playing with the kids and the elder ones who came in the afternoon. Many games were put at the disposal of the kids and they were very happy. It was so amusing that the kids found it comfortable in the midst of these strangers and were sad when I told them we will not come back to the the next week. It was also nice for to see that the kids enjoyed themselves and had really fun through out our day with them. How ever they kinder-garden close at 4pm meaning that our project for the day had come to the end. We then spend a few hours planing for the next day after which we disperse to meet the next day.
Saturday was officially scheduled to clean the fence outside the kindergarten but that seemed too small for the group of it which longed to give out their best for the project. The head mistress of the kindergarten was therefore asked if we could change the sand in the play ground? To this she gave and affirmative response and immediately we got sand from a group in Mainz which had more sand that the needed. The question which followed was, how will the sand come to us?Appeals were then send to parents but the vehicles could not carry sand.The group leader then came with the idea of appealing to to the fire fighting brigade. Here are his words when he called.“We are not an emergency but we need help“. Explaining that it was a group from the 72 hours action and then came a positive answer but it was not to be done immediately.We then spend the time during this interval cleaning the fence and weeding grass and digging little trees which could be harmful to the kids.Some parents also called by to give some support thus steaming more vigor for the work.Some material was also bought late in the afternoon still to make the play ground for comfortable for the kids.
By 8pm, we were already through with every other thing and waiting for the arrival of the sand..Every sound of a vehicle attracted our attention as we waited anxiously.Then came the organizing committee from JONA to see how far we had gone.As lucky as our group was,just as we were discussing with the team from JONA came hoots from the fire fighting brigade lorry outside the building.WE them received help from the tea m but unfortunately the rains brought our work to a ha ult but we still continued when it finally ceased.Then came a mother with her two young children and will not leave us alone until we had finished the final touches of our work at about 12:30am.We then had our supper together,pizza which was also eaten with good taste despite the fatigue.
We then parted at this juncture to meet the next day at 11:am morning for breakfast in the kinder-garden.This was prepared for us by the headmistress and her staff as a sign of the appreciation accompanied by tickets for the cinema.We then tidied up and parted company to meet again in the evening for the closing mass.During the mass.each group came out with a resume´of their activity accompanied by a symbol.The mass was animated by two groups,brothers $ sister and four men on the kitchen.The youth chaplain in his sermon thank the young people for taking up the challenge and said that just like the theme,they were sent from heaven and that after the work they are returning to heaven.By implication he called on the youths to remain those same messengers they had impersonated during the action in their daily lives.The activity finally ended with super of bread and sausages and sweet drinks in the JONA hall.It was indeed a successful event and a memorable one of course."
The nation wide social campaign, 72 hours action initiated by the BDKJ took effect on Thursday 7th May at exactly 5:07pm. There were a total of 13 groups in Frankfurt, one called youths of St. Josef Bornheim to which i belonged. These groups had in all four projects. namely, Kinder-garden, Retirement home youth house and a centre for women. My group, a group of 8 had the kinder-garden project, a project which they could not have hat a rest until their work came to an end. The launching took place at the Liebefrauenberg in the city where leaders from every group went up stage to introduce the groups and to say what they had in stock for the project.This was accompanied by animation from a group called “four men on the kitchen floor". After getting our assignment, we then spend the rest if the evening in the parish planning for the next day which ended at about 11pm with a super of Pizza.
Friday was dedicated wholly to playing with the kids and the elder ones who came in the afternoon. Many games were put at the disposal of the kids and they were very happy. It was so amusing that the kids found it comfortable in the midst of these strangers and were sad when I told them we will not come back to the the next week. It was also nice for to see that the kids enjoyed themselves and had really fun through out our day with them. How ever they kinder-garden close at 4pm meaning that our project for the day had come to the end. We then spend a few hours planing for the next day after which we disperse to meet the next day.
Saturday was officially scheduled to clean the fence outside the kindergarten but that seemed too small for the group of it which longed to give out their best for the project. The head mistress of the kindergarten was therefore asked if we could change the sand in the play ground? To this she gave and affirmative response and immediately we got sand from a group in Mainz which had more sand that the needed. The question which followed was, how will the sand come to us?Appeals were then send to parents but the vehicles could not carry sand.The group leader then came with the idea of appealing to to the fire fighting brigade. Here are his words when he called.“We are not an emergency but we need help“. Explaining that it was a group from the 72 hours action and then came a positive answer but it was not to be done immediately.We then spend the time during this interval cleaning the fence and weeding grass and digging little trees which could be harmful to the kids.Some parents also called by to give some support thus steaming more vigor for the work.Some material was also bought late in the afternoon still to make the play ground for comfortable for the kids.
By 8pm, we were already through with every other thing and waiting for the arrival of the sand..Every sound of a vehicle attracted our attention as we waited anxiously.Then came the organizing committee from JONA to see how far we had gone.As lucky as our group was,just as we were discussing with the team from JONA came hoots from the fire fighting brigade lorry outside the building.WE them received help from the tea m but unfortunately the rains brought our work to a ha ult but we still continued when it finally ceased.Then came a mother with her two young children and will not leave us alone until we had finished the final touches of our work at about 12:30am.We then had our supper together,pizza which was also eaten with good taste despite the fatigue.
We then parted at this juncture to meet the next day at 11:am morning for breakfast in the kinder-garden.This was prepared for us by the headmistress and her staff as a sign of the appreciation accompanied by tickets for the cinema.We then tidied up and parted company to meet again in the evening for the closing mass.During the mass.each group came out with a resume´of their activity accompanied by a symbol.The mass was animated by two groups,brothers $ sister and four men on the kitchen.The youth chaplain in his sermon thank the young people for taking up the challenge and said that just like the theme,they were sent from heaven and that after the work they are returning to heaven.By implication he called on the youths to remain those same messengers they had impersonated during the action in their daily lives.The activity finally ended with super of bread and sausages and sweet drinks in the JONA hall.It was indeed a successful event and a memorable one of course."
