Children’s Day Camp
A group of Bahá’ís in South Perth turned a negative into a positive after being unable to find a primary school where they could hold a children’s day camp during the school holidays. Instead they consulted on alternative options and decided on a smaller-scale service activity — a visit by their children’s class to a nursing home. The group drew on the regular Bahá’í practice of consultation and reflection in its planning. They visited various day camp reflection exercises where they were able to learn more about what form a day camp should take and ask questions regarding the process of starting up such an activity. It demonstrates how persistence is required with such activities and even though a camp as such didn’t materialise, it led to another worthwhile activity.
Visiting a local nursing home is a regular service activity that a different Bahá’í group in South Perth carries out. Whenever the Kensington neighbourhood project holds children’s day camps, they include a visit to one particular nursing home, where the children present craft gifts to the residents. They make the gifts at the camp. Four new children participated in one of these recent initiatives and have now joined a Bahá’í children’s class in Kensington.