Me being creative

Last week we participated in a Fashion Show that was created to raise money for the Cancer foundation. It was called the Charity Chic Fashion show and was run by the schools Hope for Kids representative Sandushi. I was engaged with an issue of global importance since this service group helps children in a national cancer hospital located in Maharagama. The money that was raised reached about 700,000 rupees and it was a great help to the community and the cancer hospital.

We were directed by a stylist and fashion designer, Ms. Jacquie Mei who helped to choreograph the positions and the poses. We all worked collaboratively to work out the joined poses and helped to elaborate on the movement that we practised in the rehearsals.



As we worked together, we also developed new skills and attemped new challenges that helped to build the self confidence that I needed now close to the exams. The way that we learnt how to pose and how to walk with pride is a good skill to learn in later life to seem confident in one self.

I also showed great perceverance in the task by coming 2-3 times a week for rehearsals and the pants that are shown here are from Arugam Bay while the top pictures are from a local design, Avinash. He made them from designs that he drew and he called them Amour Love.

CAS on Thursday

Last week we went to the Hospital for our monthly visit to the Cleft, Lip and Palete children. We go there once a month to check that our funds are going to the people that need it, interact with the older kids and speak with the Doctor to organize what we need to do to help advertise further. Increasing awareness of the community that helps these kids is important to help them get funds as well as joining with our local community to encourage the families that have a child with the disease to look for help. This also links us to the Global Community to ensure that people in society are aware that quite a few kids that are born have this problem and we need to help make their lives as normal as possible.

We took some pictures with the permission of the families of kids that just had the operation as well as the ones being prepared for the operation. We talked to a mother whos child was only 18 days old and was given medication to help her sleep. This made us very sad but also happy that such a small child was being helped. The child looked so helpless which is why we felt sad.

Key Club

Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs. Many local Key Clubs are sponsored by a local Kiwanis club.

On 24th Feb, our school partcipated in an exciting start of a new group called Key Club, an international student-led organization whic provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership. It works under the mission:
"To develop competent, capable and caring leaders through the vehicle of service"

The service leaders from respective groups have come together the previous day and voted to nominate and elect the board memebers and directors. The leadership structure was thus formed: President (Damien Martin); Vice President (Harini Liyanage); Secretary (Annie Gillstedt); Treasurer (Terunaga Tamura); Editor (Heesoo Kim) with the directors(Aparna, Sandushi, Keisha, Maheshi and Avin)



Each color symbolized an aspect of the Key Club International objectives:

• Blue - Unwavering character
• Gold - Service
• White - Purity