Districtwise winners:

Mother Sri Lanka Schools program

The Mother Sri Lanka Schools program aimed to inspire excellence and pride among the schoolchildren concluded its Southern Province final competition at the Ruhunu University's Humanities and Sociology Faculty premises recently.

The districtwise winners were as follows:

Galle district - 1st place: Gonagala MV, 2nd place: Nakulugamuwa Gamini MV, 3rd place: Thalawa Navodya MV.

Hambantota district - 1st place: Gonadeniya MV, 2nd place: Batuwangala MV, 3rd place: Neluwa Navodya School.

Matara district - 1st place: Rohana MV, 2nd place: Hallala Navodya Vidyalaya and 3rd place: Mahamaya Balika Vidyalaya.

The Mother Sri Lanka schools program, implemented on behalf of Mother Sri Lanka Foundation by the Ministry of Education and the TERM unit, is a competition among schoolchildren to debate and begin a dialogue on the theme 'What can children of Sri Lanka give back to our country'.

Chairperson of Mother Lanka program, Janaki Kuruppu said that similar to the courageous feats of our armed forces, every citizen has a role to play in our country's development. To change our country we must first change ourselves. The main purpose of this competition is to inspire children to participate in the development of the country and through them their parents and communities to think that we can make a change in Sri Lanka.

Several leading institutions in the corporate sector are assisting this program and many other companies have expressed interest to be part of this national project.

Those interested should contact Piyadasa Marambage on 011 2787080 or Dinasha Weerasinghe on 077 4456652 or visit website: www.mothersrilanka.lk