Mali's CAS Journey

Site Support: Content Creating for the Karuna Trust Junior Team Website

For a while, there had been an issue amongst the Karuna Trust Junior Team; we had no website. This was limiting our reach, making it difficult to share who we are and the projects we do. Because of this, I took the initiative with another member of the team to create an additional section to…

My Shelf to a Shared Space: Karuna Trust Junior Team Library Project

On September 7th, 2024, as a part of the Karuna Trust Junior Team, I helped with opening a library in Battaramulla for underprivileged students around Sri Lanka. On this day, the Karuna Trust group invited several students from local schools around the island for the opening of this new library. This day marked the beginning…

World Animal Day 2024: Care for Paws Service

As an annual tradition, my service group, Care for Paws creates an impact on the community on World Animal Day. This year, it was on October 4th, 2024. As we do every year, we put up our Anti-Animal Tourism Pledge to be signed by our school community. However, we did not want this to just…

Growing Green: Tree Planting with The Junior Team of Karuna Trust

On June 22nd, I had the incredible opportunity to be a part of something truly special. As a member of the Junior Team for Karuna Trust, I visited a local school in Sri Lanka (Diddeniya Junior School) where our mission for the day was to plant 100 trees and bring a touch of green to…

Paws Progress: Service Update (02/23 – 06/24)

Over the last four months, from February to June, our service, Care for Paws achieved several different accomplishments. Firstly, on February 17th, we partnered with the Housing for Habitat (HfH) service group for the annual Home Run. Every year, our service groups help out as extra hands for HfH with any extra jobs they…

Fifth to Fourth: SAISA Basketball 2024

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, we landed in Oman, Muscat for SAISA Girls Basketball 2024. This year SAISA girl’s basketball was hosted in Muscat Oman at The American International School of Muscat (TAISM). This competition was alongside a total of 8 schools from around South Asia who all traveled to Oman for these days. Our…

Culture to Canvas: SAISA Arts 2024 in Bangaldesh

From March 20th to March 24th, 2024, I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the American International School of Dhaka (AISD) for SAISA Arts. This is an annual event that brings students across 10 international schools in South Asia to participate in workshops on learning new artistic expressions. I have been in several other SAISA sports…

Capturing COMUN: Photography

As of the 30th session of COMUN, I was asked by the EXCO to help out throughout the planning and session with photography. I took on this role, as it would benefit me in several ways. Firstly, this form and field of photography that I would capture is not one of my stronger suits, so…

Champion Chasers: SAISA Track & Field 2024

SAISA Track and Field 2024 was such an amazing experience, and to top it off, OSC won the whole competition!!! This championship didn’t just come to our hand so easily though, it came with lots and lots of hard training. We started season 3 of sports back in November, and four months of training prepared…

Two Wheels for a Week: The Middle Path Cycling Trip

Week Without Walls is an annual off-campus trip that every grade in secondary school goes for, apart from the seniors in grade 12. That means, that as an 11th grader, this would be my last ever Week Without Walls trip. Therefore, I wanted to end it with a trip that I heard lots of good about,…