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THE SMILES FOUNDATION PRINCESS CLUB - News
I’m sure many of you wonder what is going on with the “PRINCESS
CLUB” since Maria started to tell us about it? So, this month,
Maria shares some inside information!
Since I started to send you a monthly update from my
desk without mentioning too much about the club, I’m sure you are
thinking….is it all over!! Well, not at all! Since Dana Zaharia, my
colleague joined the Smiles Foundation in December, she was a great
help for me. I invited her to the club a few times and soon I realised
she has the same passion for the girls that I do! Looking at Dana’s
passion and understanding her commitment on a regular basis for the
girls I realised that if I’m not there one Wednesday the girls are in
safe hands!!!
When I asked Dana, to write an update for the Princess
Club she came up with this…..which I’m so pleased myself to read and
so amazed how God can put together two different people but giving
them the same passion!! God is amazing!
Maria
What do you think a princess should look like? She needs to be
dressed up like nobody else and polite, or she needs to be beautiful?
Does she need to wear a tiara and to impress with a charming smile? I
use to love fairytales with princesses when I was a little girl
myself. This is why I’ve got so excited when I’ve heard the idea of
having this club. I could see behind the girls attending the programme
every Wednesday; behind the lacks or the need of improvement I saw
those that are loved by God Himself. And I’ve admitted that, because
they are His daughters they can be called “princesses” without
exaggerating... Our girls love to be called princesses. It is the
argument to justify any change we demand, doesn’t matter how painful
or radical it is.
They can be a princess when others can see only a
gypsy girl…
 Having been invited by Maria, I got involved with the club and almost
every week I am there to meet our girls. We play, we sing, we learn
how to live and to act like a princess. They are always excited and
demanding but always giving you the feeling that you receive more than
you ever gave.
In the first month we’ve
approached sensitive subjects like hygiene, relationships, sexuality.
They were shy and cautious in the beginning but with every single week
I could see the change and the rising interest. The princesses are
always competing with the others and with self, always trying to be
better and to prove themselves. In the beginning, they were selfish
but now they learn to care about others
too, step by step. For every good deed, they will get a smiley
sticker, making them so proud of their accomplishment.
Now we are studying the Beatitudes from the Bible. Everyone
wishes to be happy and we are learning how our attitudes affect the
way we are blessed by God. Beside that, we learn to be and to act like
a family. We share values like friendship, love and unity. We learn to
become princesses.
 It
is a long way to go. We are just in the beginning of a life long
process. I am not sure for how long we will be personal trainers for
these great princesses. But I am pretty sure that they are
developing, slowly but surely into young beautiful girls, making us
and their Father in Heaven proud of each one of them. And that one
day they will see a potential princess in girls just like they use to
be, doing
something about that.
So, what a
princess should look like? Come and see!
Daniela Zaharia
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