Over 135 child artists awarded at ComBank’s ‘Arunalu Siththam’ art competition

Child artists from all over Sri Lanka and some overseas locations were rewarded for their creative expression with cash prizes totaling Rs 3 million recently, at the conclusion of the fourth edition of ‘Arunalu Siththam’ – the island-wide children’s art competition conducted by the Commercial Bank of Ceylon.

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 this year to Sri Lankan children living overseas.

More than 12,000 drawings were uploaded to www.arunalusiththam.lk as entries in the five age groups, and Commercial Bank invited 137 winners and their family members to the awards ceremony and exhibition at Apé Gama in Sri Jayewardenepura.The exhibition featured 274 drawings that won cash prizes in the 2021 and 2022 editions of Arunalu Siththam.