Good day, my dear Steemian friends. Today, I came here to share my day of February 12, 2025, with you.

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The Ladies’ Welfare Society of our scheme decided to offer dana for devotees who observed Sil on the Navam Poya day.

Therefore, I got up early, on Poya Day, February 12th, to go to the welfare society building to help with the work of preparing Dana. When I was going there, many had attended and started their duties. Because we cooked some curries there the previous night, such as fish and mango, we went to bed very late. But as we agreed to start all the work by 5 a.m. the next day, everyone had attended there early.

Even though it was the work of ladies’ society, our husbands also helped us in various ways. Members were engaged in different work, like bees.

We arranged food for 100 people. In addition, we prepared dana for 15 monks in the temple. For Dana, we arranged rice and curry. We used four 5 kg separate rice cookers to cook the rice. Furthermore, we cooked fish, mango, potato, mallum, papadum, and cutlets for curries.

While they were working, we treated them with dhal curry and bread.

We had to finish all the cooking before 10.00 a.m. because we had to stay at the temple by 10.30 a.m. Several members of our housing scheme provided us transport to bring the dana food to the temple.

By 10.30 a.m., we all went to the temple with our cooked food. We were helped by one of the monks to offer Buddha puja for our lord Buddha.

After offering Buddha puja, we all went to Bana Maduwa to offer Dana to the devotees. After offering Dana, we offered them ice cream and bananas as dessert.

After completing all the work, we returned to our welfare building and ate the remaining food together.

That day, we were very happy because we got the chance to earn merit by offering Dana to the devotees who Sil observed and to work as a team.

We were engaged in a peaceful chat together after eating, washing the dishes, and cleaning the place. Everyone requested we organize a similar meritorious event next year too. As everyone was happy, we decided to organize a similar event next year too.

Later, we expressed our gratitude to all for their untiring support as well as monetary and material donations. We also thanked the members who provided transport.

With the happiness of gaining merit and working as a team, we bid farewell to each other, hoping to meet again for another such group activity in the future.

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