Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Gopika Jairam, Peace Ambassador

Gopika Jairam, daughter of Jairam K. Iyer and Chitra Jairam, Class XII student of Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Eroor, Thripunithura was selected to represent India as a Peace Ambassador, to attend the 5th Asia Girl Child Peace Camp at Nepal. The camp was organized by ‘Bikalpa Gyan Tatha Bikas Kendra’ from 2nd to 6th of November, 2009. Representatives from Thailand, Germany, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India, were present in the Peace Camp. Gopika Jairam was selected after going through a multi-leveled selection process by the Cultural Academy for Peace, Ernakulam.

The participants got a chance to interact with the Honorable President of Democratic Nepal and other eminent personalities like Miss Nepal 2009. The camp had sessions of skits, role-plays and tableaus on child abuse, violence against women etc. Also stress-release sessions – yoga, games and miming were conducted. A mural painting on ‘Peace’ was drawn by the participants of the camp.

Gopika Jairam is Senior Head Girl of her school and also the ‘Best Outgoing Student’ in this academic year. She has won many prizes for Classical Music, Recitations, Elocutions, Essay writing and Debate competitions.

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