Wow…working with kids is lot of fun. I have been
experiencing this for last 8 weeks at Good Market and the school for deaf in Colombo. Our latest
programmes – “Nature kids” and "talking through Nature" was progressing well for last 8 weeks getting
attention from people/kids and parents and teachers. We were encouraged by many people and
parents and it attracted many volunteers through face book too.
Also we have 2 volunteers who are contesting for Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Earth 2013. I was invited to be a judge and a supervisor for Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Earth. I got 2 pretty women (Ayomi and Monali) from the pageant and they were working with us at ECO-V in our new initiatives as their projects for Miss Earth beauty Pageant. It’s very interesting to mentor them and to work with them.
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| Rewarding a kid for his enthusiasm- the reward was a feather picked up from ground |
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| talking about Pelicans |
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| Bird watching during Nature walk |
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| Introducing Ayomi and Monali the two contestants for Miss Sri Lanka |
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| Ayomi and Monali working with kids |
Simultaneously we started another programme with children who are very special
children. “Talking through Nature” is the nature interactive programme for
children at school for Deaf in Ratmalana, Sri Lanka. We are hoping to establish
an organic back yard garden and a Butterfly garden at their school with these
special children who are blessed with artistic skills and are very much willing
to work but not to talk verbally. It’s very interesting to learn sign language
from them but these wonderful children are very good at lip reading too. So it
makes our communication more effective until we learn their language.
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| after cleaning the garbage dump |
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| school children working hand in hand to clear the area for butterflies |
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| Learning about up-cycling, recycling and composting |
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| Volunteers and children at school making the area for butterflies |
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