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Celebration

Author: Shakti Women's Aid

Time: 2 days plus prep time.

Ingredients:

Family and friends and those less fortunate

Love, ready to be shared

Flowers, ready to be given

Brand new clothes made fresh the night before

Food, lots of

Appropriate greetings

Instructions:

- The day before measure out rice in a pot

- Make sure the underprivileged have food or money

- Braid hair: add extensions, pleat for two hours

- Prepare the charcoal and pour on scents

- Mix with loved ones at the church or mosque

- Visit homes, baring flowers and happiness for those who need it

- Don’t forget to notice nature and be grateful

- Set the children running round the houses, collecting money

- Serve Jollof to every hungry mouth

- Eat until full

- Make sure there is cake