The Salvation Army opened the Patvērums Childrens Day Centre in March 2002 to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children from the local community in Riga.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Happy New Year!
We hope you have all had a great Christmas and New Year! We have been busy over the past few weeks as other than national holidays the centre has been open.
We had a wonderful Christmas party, a total of 39 people attended and I think it's safe to say it was one of the best for a few years! We laughed a lot while playing various party games, some tradition some not so! Irena did a great job with the food and the play went really well. I have to confess I was pleased it was such a success with it being our last one!
And now it's 2007! It’s going to be a year of many changes for the centre, although only the staff know that at the moment. Lilita leaves a week tomorrow and finally today we have had our first serious applicant. We are hoping to interview her on Thursday next week. Also next week we will have our 3rd agency come to inspect the centre. This time it is from the Sanitary and Health Agency. It's a bit of an unknown, some people have told us horror stories, other are telling us as long as they get paid each year that's all their interested in so...I'm not holding my breath either way and we'll wait to see what happens on Wednesday at 14:00. I'll let you know!
As for the children they seem to have had a good Christmas, this week they are still off school so enjoying the end of their holidays. They have taken the news of Lilita leaving fairly well, some are now more interested in who will replace her!! Tonight she is leading her first and last parents group. We have been really pleased with the numbers that have been attending recently so hopefully tonight will be just as good, we've had a few parents who haven't been for a very long time say they might come which would be a great start to the New Year.
So once again, Happy New Year from all of us at Patverums!
posted by Patverums Childrens Day Centre @ 4:09 pm
