Abba House is an organization that takes care of babies and young children in state care.  Many of these children are orphans and without the loving care provided by the permanent staff and hand full of volunteers they would have had no other place to stay.

As part of their Rag projects Vividus Men and Vividus Ladies, the two biggest Day Houses on campus, decided to combine their strengths and recourses to aid this wonderful house in the serves they render.  The projects aim was to provide the staff with a way to better the lives of the children they care for.  This was taken a step further and the staff was provided with a day off as well.

Vividus Men and Vividus Ladies arrived with a massive force of EC members, Rag Com members and many House members as volunteers.  They were quickly grouped and put to work on a rotation system playing and taking care of the children, preparing and cooking food for the children for the week, cleaning and fixing all the toys on the premises, planting grass where the children can play and creating a vegetable garden.

The main aim was to leave Abba House with something that will make a lasting impact on the lives of the people involved in it.  The vegetable garden was the ideal gift as this will provide Abba House with a steady stream of healthy and biologically safe vegetables throughout the year.  This will become an ongoing project by the Houses to make sure that Abba House is regularly provided with seeds, fertilizer and anything else they may need to keep up the garden.  The staff was also instructed on how to care for the garden, harvest the vegetables and how to replant new vegetables in such a way that the garden stays sustainable and provide the House with vegetables throughout the year.

This was not only a great way to give back to the community, but also a way for the Houses to combine their strengths and to teach the House members about the needs of others and how easily they can make a difference.  As the quote states, “…Children, marriages and gardens reflect the kind of care they get”, Vividus Men and Vividus Ladies hopes that through the care they have put into this project Abba House will be able to keep on putting in the love and care that is already reflected in the beautiful (and very often toothless) smiles of the very young children they take care of.