Puniyakami Vidyalaya - kids save the planet












A three month long  program with the support of the principal of Puniyakami Vidyalaya, Ms Hema Peiris, we were able to get one hour from their kindergarten classes to conduct our program a week long. It was the first of its kind to be held in a primary school and we enjoyed it a lot. We thank the school community for bringing about changes in their environment to suit the project themes, and the above pictures show some of the hand work, art work we developed along with the students, staff to bring the idea of "greening the school community".

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