Youth Day at Colombo Camporee 2015
It gives great pleasure to keep innovating and introducing novel concepts to Colombo & Sri Lankan Scouting on a continuous basis! The Youth Day activity at the50th Colombo Camporee 2015 – The Urban Hiking Challenge, organized by the Colombo Rovers which kicked off from Viharamaha Devi Park, included four novel challenges such as Paper Pioneering activity at the Galle Face Green, the #OTW briefing at the Independence Square by Naushalya Rajapaksha from UNFPA and the 5 public awareness campaigns on eradicating sexual harassment from our societies, instantly planned out by the 5 scout teams which comprised of scouts from different schools attending the Scout Camporee and were executed in different public places in Colombo including the Dutch Hospital, the Arcade Independence Square, the Race Course and in buses on route 138, the #scoutgoodturnselfies taken by the scouts whilst hiking, after doing their good turn for the day as a scout and finally the Messengers of Peace (MOP) and World Scout Environmental Programme (WSEP) activity on waste Reduction and Reuse by making usable camping equipment and gadgets from waste collected by the scouts whilst hiking… Whilst being overwhelmed by the interest shown by the young scouts in Colombo for activities of this nature and the positive response from the general public on this type of public relations campaigns by the scouts, we are also thankful to everyone who chipped in to make the Youth Day 2015 a brand new experience and a roaring success!
