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CPS celebrates 84th anniversary:

Praise for Child Protection Society

The Child Protection Society (CPS) celebrated its 84th anniversary at Olympic House, Colombo recently.


CPS Chairman SS Wijeratne receiving a donation from Walter Mendis at the 84th anniversary in Colombo recently. Picture by M. Chandradasa

The chief guests were Walter Mendis and his wife who had contributed for the refurbishment of the Boys Development Centre, Maharagama. The original buildings and the land at Maharagama Centre were donated in 1930 by Abdul Gafoor, one of Sri Lanka's leading philanthropit.

Child Protection Society Chairman S S Wijeratne told the gathering, including boys and the girls of the two homes, that the Child Protetion Society was founded in 1928 by British Philanthropist Sir John Parsons, with the patronage of the then British Parliament as Asia's pioneering organization dedicated to Child Protection. "The CPS has maintained two model child development centres, one for boys at Maharagama and one for girls at Rukmalgama.

"Generations of children without parental care have benefited from the care and education provided in the centres," he said .

"The Child Protection Society is perhaps the only child protection institute in the world, which has an old students' union which is actively involved with the current student welfare and education," the CPS chairman said.

Celebrations 2011 will also honour the most senior member of the society Anoma Fernando, the CPS chairman added.

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