Kegalla District Program to inform school principals conducted by National Child Protection Authority and Ministry of Education was held today (20) at St Joseph Girls College Auditorium, Kegalla.

These awareness programs are conducted to cover the island by the National Child Guard Authority, which is responsible to do their best interest, protecting all children from abuses, and performing the responsibility of the country's utmost interest in achieving the objectives of the National Child Guard Authority Act No. 50. Accordingly, the awareness work has been done in the Northwestern, North Central and Western provinces and the first program in Sabaragamuwa province was held today.

Dr. Chaminda Weerasiriwardhana joined the first lecture of this program to prevent all forms of violence and abuse against children in schools. Mr A came here and informed the group about positive teaching and class management and the second lecture was informed about the legal condition of physical penalty according to the penalty law. For that, the lawyers of the National Child Protection Authority Mrs. Lochana Ranasinghe was together.

The program was organized by the children units of the local secretariats including District Childguard Officer Mrs. Vinonani Kulathunga and District Psycho Social Officer Mrs. Chathurika Bandara.
Assistant District Secretary Mrs. Malsha L. Priyadarshani, representing the National Child Guard Authority, a group of officers, regional education directors, principals, advisory teachers and child guard officers from the regional secretariat offices gathered together for the occasion.