In order to spread publicity in an effective manner for my service group, we visitted five different schools last week on Wednesday (7th November) in order to meet with their school's respective interact groups. Interact is a concept unfamiliar in our school but very comon amongst other schools in Colombo, both international and local. The schools we met with were, the British school in Colombo, College of world education, Willesden college, Asian International school and Elizabeth Moir Senior school. In each of these schools we met with at least 3 members of their respective interact groups and presented our cause with a powerpoint presentation. Two schools confirmed that they would be interested and willing to help us publicize the cause in their school assemblies. The other three did say they were interested but are yet to confirm in what ways they will be able to help us.
This experience helped me enhance my speaking skills and self-confidence when presenting in work environment. The experience also enhanced my leadership skills as I was able to speak for my group and explain our situation and why it is important that we gain publicity for this cause.
I feel that this was a crucial day for each of us in terms of our service-oriented life at osc. It meant we would dedicate one entire school day to service in order to spread awareness about cleft-lip and palette.
Below our some pictures of our group interacting with the fellow interact members of the Colombo school comity:
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