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Five-Year-Old’s Greeting Cards Cheer Up 200 Local Nursing Home Residents

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  • Aryana Chopra is the daughter of a doctor and she knows the seriousness of quarantining because of the coronavirus and the risk it poses to the elderly.
  • She decided to design and make unique greeting cards with special messages for residents of a nursing home.
  • One resident wrote a thank you note for Aryana saying it put a smile on her face.

The quarantine has taken a toll on people’s mental health.  Children have been overwhelmed with online classes and not being able to be with friends and relatives to play. But their ability to adopt and to take things as they come has been remarkable.

Take the case of Aryana Chopra.  She knows that the quarantine has not been easy for nursing home residents and she has found a solution to cheer them up— greeting cards!

Having a doctor as a father has made Aryana know the dangers posed by the coronavirus to the elderly and the need for the residents to quarantine.  And so, she designed and crafted more than 200 cards for the residents of Willow Point nursing home in Vestal, New York. Aryana said, “I got an idea of making cards for the people in the nursing home who cannot go out and meet their friends and family because of the coronavirus.”

Photo Credit: Nitin & Shachi Chopra (CNN)

When her mom Shachi asked her ‘Will you be able to make 200 cards? She was like, ‘Yes, Mommy, I can do that.’ For her, at a little age, to be thinking this way, my heart totally melted.”

Since the cards were handmade, it took Aryana about two weeks to finish the project.  Each card was unique and had a special message for the New Year from Aryana. But she was not content with just the 200 cards when she finished it.  She also wanted to buy a Santa Claus statue and a vase so she had to break her piggy bank open.

Sachi added that Aryana also wanted to get a cake but the cake was not allowed at the nursing home because of the pandemic.

One resident who received a card wrote to Arya to say thank you: “It sure put a smile on my face and a tear or two in my eyes.” 

Her mom Sachi said, “Kids, they think about what do they get in return, but she was like, ‘No, mommy, you know what blessings are, they work wonders. If 200 people are going to bless me, that would be the biggest New Year’s gift for me.’”

But “once the coronavirus goes away,” Aryana plans on personally visiting the nursing home.

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Good job, Aryana!

Source: Tank’s Good News

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