Pahan Tharuwa, meaning Ray of Hope in Sinhala is the annual Day of Joy that the MJF Charitable Foundation has offered underprivileged children since 2001. The event brings together children from the most remote and marginalised parts of Sri Lanka, for a day of fun. On 10th December 2007 the MJF Charitable Foundation hosted 1,200 children at Leisure World - a theme park approximately 40km from Colombo. This year the emphasis was on offering joy to children from recently cleared areas of the East. More than 400 were therefore children from schools in the recently conflict affected areas of Vakarai and Eravur. They joined others from tea growing areas - Talawakelle & Elpitiya - and children from the MJF Kids programme for deprived children from urban communities (from slums in Peliyagoda & Maligawatte). Also present for the Day of Joy were children from the MJF Charitable Foundation sponsored P.E.A.C.E. programme in Bleomendhal Road, Colombo. Together the children formed a truly national representation of children from North, South, East, West and Central parts of Sri Lanka

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