Ceylinco Life reaches out to country’s young school children

-- Children’s computers and school kits for more than 1500 kids through ‘Ran Daru Weerayo’ programme --

The new school year will be brightened up for more than 1,500 children as a result of an exciting new community interaction launched this week by Ceylinco Life, Sri Lanka’s leading life insurer.

The company is offering children island-wide a chance to win 50  children’s computers, and 1,500 ‘school kits’ by simply visiting a Ceylinco Life branch near to them and picking up a sticker sheet of book labels for their new books.

More than 300,000 sheets of labels have already been despatched to Ceylinco Life’s 150 branches for distribution to children who visit the branches accompanied by a parent on any working day before January 21st 2008, and more will follow as the demand grows, the company said.

Themed ‘Ran Daru Weerayo’ the programme is intended to give children a great start to their school year and is an extension of Ceylinco Life’s enduring involvement with initiatives to promote educational excellence, the company’s Chief Executive Director R. Renganathan said.

“For the past three years Ceylinco Life has distributed millions of attractive school time tables at the start of the new academic year,” he said. “This year, we are taking this interaction further by offering valuable gifts to children beginning or in primary education.”

Each of the 1500 school kits will comprise of a rucksack-style school bag, a lunch box, pencil case, 10 exercise books and a cap. These will be distributed after the winners are identified at draws on 22nd January 2008 at every Ceylinco Life branch in the country. To be eligible for the draw, each child who picks up a sheet of labels from these offices between now and 21st January 2008 will have to fill in a coupon and drop it into a box at the branch.

The grand draw for the 50 lap-top computers is scheduled to take place on January 25th, 2008, and the winners will receive them in February 2008.

Any child between the ages of 4 and 9 years will be eligible to participate in these draws, the company said.

Similar community programmes organised by the company in previous years resulted in a day-long visit to Pinnawala for 50 children and their parents, and three-days of outdoor camping for 50 families, combined with helicopter rides, boating and other adventures at the Academy of Adventure in Belihuloya.