How The Bloom Story Grants the Christmas Wishes of Less Privileged Children Every Year.
WHAT BLOOM IS ALL ABOUT
The Bloom Party is a luxury Christmas party for underprivileged children in Nigeria made possible by a community of donors, volunteers, and organizations. The Bloom Story Organisation organizes this yearly luxury makeover party for 100 underprivileged children in Nigeria every Christmas through donations, partnerships, volunteering, and sponsorships. It gathers a list of the children’s Christmas gift wishes and through the resources and donations raised it makes these wishes come true.
The Bloom Story’s mission is to inspire less privileged children to manifest their full potential by giving them a first-hand experience of a life of elegance and poise by leveraging collaboration and support from a wider community. The Bloom Story team is also planning for life after the party for the children. The nonprofit’s vision is “To create an environment where children can believe and become.”
Along with the gifts given, the children also get an outfit makeover at the party and fashion designers make the clothes (dresses, suits) the kids wear to the event. To get access to the children, The Bloom Story partners with foundations, orphanages, and charities across Lagos state.
HOW IT ALL STARTED
Behind the scenes of The Bloom Story is an energetic and committed network of over 100 volunteers globally. The Chief volunteer of this nonprofit is its founder Cynthia Onyinyechi Obioha.
Cynthia has a passion to help the less privileged, a desire to see children explore their destined path to grow without limits, and she is someone who loves to put smiles on people’s faces through random acts of kindness. Being of this kind nature and having the inspiration on a faithful Sunday morning in July 2016, Cynthia founded The Bloom Story. . The annual Christmas party has successfully taken place every year since its inception.
Cynthia, a graduate of Covenant University, is an IT professional currently working at a FAANG company. Prior to that, she was a Solutions Consultant at Google Nigeria and UK. She is also a trustee at MeetANeedToday Foundation and is currently sponsoring different children through school.
“My goal for The Bloom Party each year is to put smiles on less privileged children’s faces every Christmas with a not-for-profit glam, top-notch Christmas Party. The party is designed to be fun and inspirational for the kids, with lots of food to eat. We want to give them an experience they cannot afford (for now) and leave them with something to look forward to in their future” said Cynthia.
THIS YEAR’S PARTY
This year The Bloom Christmas Party took place on the 3rd of December 2022 at a church building at Lekki. A total of 100 children from 10 orphanages and foundations were beneficiaries of the party. The event was a success and the children had an amazing time.
BEYOND THE PARTY
In line with its mission, The Bloom Story believes that it can help underprivileged children see their potential, feel it and eventually become the best version of themselves. Therefore beyond the annual luxury party, The Bloom Team is putting in place a program to enable the children to develop life skills that would help them build a better future.
To commence the series of projects under this program, The Bloom Story is launching Project Butterfly, a project focused on developing practical technology skills for children which includes computer appreciation, robotics, coding, and more.
Over the next few months, Project Butterfly seeks to expand the life skill capacity of these children by introducing an interesting curriculum that spans various fields and caters to the knowledge gap of the BLOOM children.
To learn more about The Bloom Story click here and for donations of items or money, send an email to info@thebloomstory.org
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