After the pandemic, finally the service activities at OSC proceeded as before. This gave me an opportunity to join with the “girls for girls”. This is a service group who stands for the sexually abused girls, and lend them kindness and support along with friendship for them to recover from the bad traumatizing memories. 

Last week, the 20th of January, we did some recording in order to edit a video to send it to “Emerge Lanka”. For this, we decided that each of us would hold a certain word that represents the service or what we feel about the service, and speak for a few seconds explaining it. My choice of word for this was “Safety”. I chose this to enhance the idea of lending them a hand to make them feel safe as if they are expecting at home. I even wrote a short poem to recite instead of other words. The poem went like this:

“To lend you a hand – To make you feel at home – To make you feel safe

We’ll provide you with Safety – As it is our responsibility”

In the future, we are looking forward to engage in fundraising activities to serve the group of girls who’d be joining us. These may include used-book sales, bake sales, mini-carnivals and sponsoring on social media such as ‘Instagram’ and ‘Facebook’. 

The first set of girls would be visiting us in March and I’m pretty excited about it. We are planning to interact with them via games or sports and build a strong bond of happiness and trust among each other.   

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth
2. Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
3. Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
4. Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences
5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance
7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions