Season 4 Honda Purudu Championship Finals was held at the Temple Trees Auditorium recently, with the Rotary District Governor Sushena Ranatunga as the chief guest.
Children are navigating a world filled with complex moral dilemmas and often lack the guidance to cultivate essential values like kindness, honesty, and respect. The Honda Purudu Championship is part of the Little Minds Strong Values (LMSV) program, conceptualised by Rotarian Rukshan Perera, supported by the Rotary Club of Colombo Metropolitan, and collaborated with the Ministry of Education to roll out to schools around the country.
LMSV attracts the children with engaging, value-embedded, video-animated songs that teach core values while inspiring the children to express these values and perform skits in school and join the Honda Purudu Championship through the performing arts. This process aspires to place value education at the forefront of children’s lives (in school and at home) and mould the next generation to become compassionate and responsible leaders.
The annual Honda Purudu Championship further encourages children and schools to participate and sustain these values while winning awards and certificates. It is open to preschoolers, primary and secondary schoolers in the Solo and Group categories.
The Season 4 LMSV Championship made remarkable strides with more than 11,000 children showcasing active engagement nationwide, with schools embracing LMSV values in various innovative ways, benefiting thousands of children. The professional judges selected 140 children, and they were invited to the finals in Colombo. They came from the North, South, East and the West – Jaffna, Ampara, Batticaloa, Galle, Kalutara, Kandy, Badulla, and several other cities and towns.
Children selected LMSV songs of their choice to express these values via song, dance, speech and drama.
They also surprised the audience with their talents, wearing beautiful costumes, expressing these values in the mediums they enjoy, and elevating the afternoon to an impressive event.
Governor Ranatunga enlightened the audience, filled with teachers, principals and other educators on the importance of bringing back the lost values in society. He thanked the children for learning and expressing these important values using performing arts and advised them to make them part of their daily lives.
