A total of 40 boys and 38 girls of 14-16 years of age who had been conscripted or forcibly detained by LTTE terrorists before last year’s end of the War for Peace in Vanni, successfully completed basic training on scouting, as recommended and trained by Sri Lanka Scouts Association. They received certificates and mementos, as fully fledged Boys Scouts and Girl Guides in a ceremony held at the Child Protective Accommodation and Rehabilitation Centre, Ratmalana.

Those underage children, some of them who are showing exceptional skills in different fields of studies and other manual and technical spheres, are expected to sit GCE (Ordinary Level) examination shortly.

Many of them have already completed different courses in sewing, first-aid, computer, weaving, art, cookery, etc. Expertise from the Army has helped make all these projects successful, enabling those who still have parents and relations alive in their original places of residence in the North to visit them in Ratmalana.