Sri Lanka The Sri Lanka scouts clean the stations to remember Baden Powell

An initiative in the railroad stations throughout the country to celebrate the birthday of the founder of the Educating Movement in respect for public goods. Those responsible declare Asianews: «We live our motto: be an example through action. Prove that if scouts do it, everyone else can also do it.

Colombo (Asianews) – To celebrate the 168th birthday of the founder of the movement, Lord Robert Baden -Powell, the Sri Lanka scouts cleaned 150 railway stations throughout the country. Provincial Scouts and parents also participated in this initiative, which took place on Saturday 22.

More than 700 Scouts carried out the activity at the Colombo-Fort, Maradana, Kompanagoveediya, Moratuwa and Mount Lavinia railroad stations. The cleaning of the Anuradhapura railway station, in the northern province, was carried out under the direction of the president of the association, Jap Jayawardena; The scout movements of Baticaloa, Akkaraipattu and Kalmunai, in the eastern province, jointly launched an beautification project of the Baticaloa railway station, a cleaning program of nine railroad stations from Badulla to Ohiya, in the province of grape South.

Thilini Mahesha Kannangara, leader of the Scout Association of the Wattala-Jaela region, in the western province, explained to Asianews that the gesture intends to support the “Sri Lanka Clean” program, launched by the current government, and embody the motto of the Scout Movement, “Be an example through action.” “Participating in activities in public places,” he added, “we demonstrate that if scouts can do it, others too. Our goal is to always live up to our motto and do an exemplary work with unity and spirit of team, without discrimination of race, religion, age, youth and older, carrying it with joy. »

«Today is a happy day for us because all the scouts of our area have been able to meet and launch something as beautiful as this. Today is the birthday of our founder, who taught us to do good things and to find satisfaction in them, ”the Scouts Sarah Nicolaia, Natari Dienka, from Nimala Maria Balika, and Vimukthi Rean, of Christ’s College de Tudella told Asianews. “Our founder,” said Brother Kumarasinghe, his chief Scout, “was born in England, but later went to India and South Africa to serve. There he realized that the boys could perform great services, but the adults did not allow it. That is why the Scout Movement began and created opportunities for young people and children to serve society. Through these small actions we show society, including the elderly, that we protect and take care of public goods ».

In Sri Lanka, the scultism was founded in 1912 at the Christdeva Collage, in the Matale district, by the British citizen Francis Geroge Steevans.