Ceylinco Life reaches out to young schoolchildren

The new school year will be brightened up for more than 1,500 children as a result of a new community interaction launched this week by Ceylinco Life.

The company is offering children islandwide a chance to win 50 children's computers and 1,500 'school kits' by simply visiting a Ceylico Life branch near to them and picking up a sticker sheet of book labels for their new books.

Themed Ran Daru Weerayo' the programme is intended to give children a great start to their school year and is an extension of Ceylinco Life's enduring involvement with initiatives to promote educational excellence, the company's Chief Executive Director R. Renganathan said.

Each of the 1500 school kits will comprise of a rucksack-style school bag, a lunch box, pencil case, 10 exercise books and a cap. These will be distributed after the winners are identified at draws on January 22, 2008 at every Ceylinco Life branch in the country.

To be eligible for the draw, each child who picks up a sheet of labels from these offices between now and January 21, 2008 will have to fill in a coupon and drop it into a box at the branch.

The grand draw for the 50 lap-top computers is scheduled to take place on January 25, 2008, and the winners will receive them in February 2008.

Any child between the ages of 4 and 9 years will be eligible to participate, the company said.