The artistic talent of 137 children was celebrated and rewarded with Rs. 3 million in cash prizes when the Commercial Bank of Ceylon concluded the fifth edition of its ‘Arunalu Siththam’ children’s art competition with a awards ceremony at the Kingsbury Hotel recently.
The Bank’s Managing Director/CEO Sanath Manatunge and members of the corporate management of the Bank were present.
Exclusively for children between the ages of four and 16, the competition was hosted under the banner of the Bank’s popular children’s savings account ‘Arunalu’ and was also open to Sri Lankan children living overseas.
Over 12,000 drawings were uploaded to arunalusiththam.lk as entries in the five age groups specified for the competition, and Commercial Bank invited 137 winners and their family members to the awards ceremony.
The three overseas winners participated in the event online and shared their thoughts. The cash prizes presented ranged from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 100,000 each.
Holders of children’s savings accounts at Commercial Bank among the winners of the competition received special gifts in addition to their cash prizes.
The judging of drawings submitted for this year’s competition was entrusted to an expert panel of judges headed by Prof. Susiripala Malimboda.
Commercial Bank launched the ‘Arunalu Siththam Art Competition’ in 2017. The flagship children’s savings account of Commercial Bank, Arunalu, after which the competition was named. It rewards account holders with cash prizes if they score the first, second or third highest aggregate marks in their schools at the Year 5 Scholarship examination.
