CIC continues child protection work

WORKSHOPS: Chew Gaik Hean, Chief Executive, ICI Paints Asia Pacific, took time to meet representatives of the National Child Protection Authority and Leo Club Colombo (Host) when she visited Sri Lanka last week.

Ms. Linda Rose on behalf of the National Child Protection Authority along with Leo Ashan Kumar and Leo Asitha Pinnaduwa met Ms. Hean. "You are doing a great job! When we come back we will help you to take these workshops out of Colombo too.

That should be your focus now" observed Ms. Hean commending on the work, done in association with the Dulux Child Protection Trust Fund, in conducting Creative Art Therapy Workshops for children of orphanages.

These workshops were conducted under the sponsorship of the Dulux Child Protection Trust Fund, which is funded by CIC Paints (Pvt) Ltd. Under this programme the DCPTE is funding a series of Creative Art Workshops in association with Leo Club Colombo (Host). This particular activity is targeting the most vulnerable groups and is specifically tailored to suit the needs of orphans.

To date children of Sri Lankadhara Girls Home, Sanhinda Boys Home, Sri Vajira Children's Home, Maithree Children's Home and the Wickremasinghapura Children's Home have benefited from these Creative Art Therapy Workshops. CIC Paints' is committed to the prevention of child abuse in Sri Lanka and they show cased it with the launch of "Banners of Hope" in April 2006 in Nuwara Eliya. They continued this awareness creating campaign through 2006 in Colombo.

"In 2007 too we will be going ahead with educating the public on the need for vigilance for prevention. This year we will seek more strong public support." said Nalin Karunaratne, spokesperson for CIC Paints (Pvt) Ltd.