Australia plays cricket match at boys home
A team from the Australian High Commission, including High Commissioner Dr Greg French, played a friendly match against young cricketers from the Child Protection Society (CPS) Boys Home, Maharagama on Saturday 19 May 2007. The CPS Boys Home team was captained by fifteen year old K.A. Ishara Ruwan Kumara who has lived at the home for the past three years. The cricket match was organised to encourage public support for the CPS boys and girls homes and foster friendship and development through sport.
The Child Protection Society was established in 1928 as the first child protection organisation in Sri Lanka and South Asia and is engaged in protecting and promoting child welfare.
The Australian Government plans to fund a training program for resource people working at the CPS Boys and Girls home through its Direct Aid Program, a small grants scheme for development activities around Sri Lanka. Other recent activities funded through the Direct Aid Programme have included health and nutrition programmes, hygiene and sanitation projects, provision of artificial limbs, income generation projects for women in the plantation sectors and the differently abled and the construction of wells to assist drought afflicted communities in the North Central Province. The emphasis of the program is on alleviating basic humanitarian hardships.
The cricket match was attended by over 150 people including Australian High Commission staff and family members, the president of the boys home, board members and trustees of the Child Protection Society and well wishers.
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