Mother Sri Lanka Trust movement brings positive results in Southern Province

Lakshmi de Silva

Mother Sri Lanka Trust, a voluntary group together with the Education Ministry has launched a movement to instill positive thinking about the country among the schoolchildren. The movement which began last November has brought positive results in the Southern Province. It would reach out as an education service to the 4.2 million schoolchildren and their parents in the whole country, the Director Strategy and Perceptions Management Janaki Kuruppu said at a press conference held at the Western Provincial Council Auditorium, Colombo.

It's not only to feel proud about the country but also to act individually and in groups to build a better Sri Lanka forgetting the sorrows and pains of the past so that the younger and future generations would be able to contribute to positive thinking, she said.

The objectives are to evoke a sense of pride about the Motherland among the children and to motivate them to play a proactive role in the next era of development of the country, to instill faith in the next generation about the Motherland's resources and to continue the program of work through the establishment of Mother Sri Lanka Clubs in schools, she said.Giving an example of results achieved by this movement a student of Batuwangala Maha Vidyalaya, a remote school in the Galle District bordering the Sinharaja rain forest, M.A. Isuru Madushan, said the school children built a minor hydro electric power plant to supply power to the school computer lab and about the special cleaning program of the school carried out by the students during school hours.

He said the school had only 300 children on roll but had been motivated to take part in district competitions and were able to taken part in the press conference due to the guidance of the Mother Sri Lanka Trust and its efforts.