Pax Lodge Makes Get Well Cards for Children at Royal Free Hospital

When it comes to doing service projects as a group, there are usually lots of opportunities that open up in one’s neighborhood. For this year’s centenary celebrations, here at Pax Lodge we tried not just to focus on one, but have different service projects to support our community.

Staying inside the building, a part of the participants for the day decorated cards for the children’s ward of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. Sending them best wishes, get-well-soon messages and spring greetings are hopefully going to brighten up the patients’ day. One of the leaders that was helping with crafts mentioned that she herself has been in this hospital, and would have loved to get cards and good wishes from Girl Guides or Girl Scouts like us. Outside in the backyard another group of Guides were busy making tissue paper flowers in the brightest colours. While crafting little poppies and roses they tried to imagine how good they would look as decoration and add some colour to the impersonal hospital walls.

Another part of our Pax Lodge based service project was the garden itself. Used by both, the World Bureau and Pax Lodge it needed a spring tidy urgently. Removing all the dead leaves and branches as well as the rubbish, the garden can now be used again by staff and guests that want to enjoy the spring sun. But not just that! Following this years’ centenary motto ‘Plant’ some Brownies planted seeds in the flower bed. Soon we will see a colourful 100 growing between the trees, celebrating the 100^th birthday of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting.