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Serving the People

Scouting, Sinhala and Road Sign awareness for Killinochchi students

In parallel to the government's ambitious projects to expedite the post war recovery of the north and east region, Scouting, Sinhala and Road Sign awareness programmes were conducted recently for school students in the killinochchi area. These programmes were conducted with a view of enhancing their general knowledge and also involve them in extra curricular activities.

A workshop on scouting for teachers of thirty schools in the area was conducted by a team of six scout instructors from Colombo, Vavuniya and Jaffna. Security Forces Headquarters Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN) organized the training two day work shop with the assistance of the Commissioner of Scouting (Kilinochchi).

The 5 Sri Lanka Armoured Corps troops (Killinochchi) conducted a Sinhala language awareness programme with a view of improving the Sinhala language knowledge of the children in Killinochchi. This would facilitate to diminish the communication barrier of children and give them more exposure and open up new avenues and opportunity.

In order to educate the children of correct road rules and road use, troops conducted an awareness programme on road safety at St Theresa's Girls' School in Kilinochchi. It was a timely action by the military as, with the end of the humanitarian operations the region has seen a sudden increase in vehicular traffic and traffic related accidents.

The programme was jointly conducted by Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police and Sri Lanka Police with the support of SFHQ-KLN.

In addition to its involvement in infrastructure development projects under the government's post war development programme, security forces have carried out many educational work-shops and other assistance for students such as, educational seminars for GCE Ordinary Level students, donation of study packs, renovating school buildings, providing furniture, sports equipment and holding sports tournaments are among them.