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| Tuesday, 25 May 2004 |
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The musical show '4 Band explosion' organised by the Sri Lanka Girl Guides' Association in association with DR Entertainments will be held on June 4 at the BMICH. The show will be unique, as for the first time in the history of the music scene in Sri Lanka, four of the most sought after bands will perform on one stage. Bands Misty, Mirage, Wild Fire and Ultimate will perform while Dalrene will compere the show. The proceeds of the show will go towards strengthening the flagship project of the Association - The Girl Child Project. This project is about preventing and mitigating the effects of chid abuse. The Sri Lanka Girl Guides recognized that the abuse of children and girls in particular was rampant but silent throughout the island. It was decided to set this project in motion in 1994 with the assistance of UNICEF. UNICEF funded two cycles of this project, the second having been completed recently. It involved awareness raising by way of organised seminars for principals of schools, teachers, students and parents from the same location of the various districts. After these awareness sessions and discussions facilitated by competent resource persons from the police, medical professionals, lawyers, educatioinists, development workers, counsellors etc. A "Solution Box" is placed in classrooms in order to entertain problems that children encounter in whatever form. The box is opened once a month and the problems are studied by staff and parents. Handwriting is a means of identifying who has the problem if it is an anonymous complaint. Solutions are discussed and brought about. The project needs to be taken to a more in depth phase via establishment of counselling centres, hotlines, further training of teachers, guide leaders and parents, legal support etc. While some of these are happening in various forms through different organizations the girl guides need to speed up action by establishing infrastructure throughout the island. The Girl Guides have a valuable resource in a network of leaders and guide companies distributed in schools all over the island, a press release said. The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association (SLGGA) was 80 years old last year and is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts which is the singular largest movement in the world for developing the potential of girl children and young women. |
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