Come Christmas, and you are sure to hear carols, one of which is the popular Feliz Navidad, a Spanish phrase that means ‘Merry Christmas’. At a Tardeo school over the weekend, it was Feliz ‘Navy’dad as civilians wished the Indian Navy a Merry Christmas in an inspiring way, through blood donation. Several persons, especially from the Tardeo, Grant Road, and other areas in the  SoBo vicinity, responded to a call by the recently formed New Chikhalwadi Welfare Association to donate blood for the Indian Navy, Air Force and Army.

Doctors and personnel from the INHS Asvini Hospital, the oldest command hospital of the Indian Navy in Navy Nagar, Colaba, were in charge of the donation drive. This was the fledgling Association`s first event.