The boys had a set of fun filled activities that was planned and conducted at Shekinah House for the month of August.
•    The Monsoon Water Filling Championship was held at the House. Each of the team members had to fill water in a distant bucket by passing water to the next boy with the help of their palms. The four groups teams enjoyed participating in the game. Group ‘Europe’ was the winner.                
                      
The Monsoon Tennis cup championship was won by group Africa and the runners up was won by Group Europe.                    
•    The thrilling Monsoon fishing competition (MFC) was conducted under the title, ‘King fisher’. The boys excitedly participated in the competition which was held at the Anjuna River. The competition was won by Team Europe; Asia team won the second place while teams Africa and America got the third and the fourth place respectively.

•    On 15th August, the boys and staff commemorated India’s 63 years of Independence in a unique way. A Flag making competition was held and all the boys participated in their respective team. The contest was named as “Top Independence Art”. All the team members put in their very best effort to win the competition. The team “Europe” won the contest and got the first place for their flag, the team Asia

•    won the second place while Teams Africa and America bagged the third and the fourth place respectively. The boys enjoyed making beautiful looking flags using the creativity and had a very good time.
      
•    The boys also had a Card making Competition wherein we got to see a lot of talented boys teamed up together to bring out creative & attractive greeting cards. All the cards were so stunning that it was very difficult for the judges to judge the best among them. After a deep thought it was decided that Team “Europe” was the winner of the competition. The three teams that succeeded after it were Africa (second place), Asia (third) and fourth, America. Every team was very proud to see their beautiful work of art on Greeting cards.
•    Another competition that the boys enjoyed the most was the “Poem Writing Competition” The boys had to once again put on thinking caps and create a poem of the own. Each group was given a topic on which they had to make a poem based on their individual theme. The team had to select a member who would create a poem and present it to all. The Best and Excellent poet was awarded to Master Mallesh Uppar (ID321) from Team America. Below is his poem on “The Nature”.
The nature is so wide that her beauty can’t be hidden,
She is our mother, offers air to breath, water to drink and food to eat,
The trees are very green and its very often we find the environment is very clean.
The sky is blue and lovely too.        
The birds fly in the sky, singing a lovely song in a good accord,     
The nature is next to God’s presence,
‘Be calm to plants’, ‘Be veg. Go green save our plants.                                                                                                                
A visitor named Sandra Bourne from Australia visited and interacted with the staff and the boys. She also made a donation of $300 towards a new Refrigerator for the House.