Celebrating World Children’s Day 2026 October

World Children’s Day is a Global Day of Action for children, by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Sri Lanka, World Children’s Day is celebrated on October 1st and this year focused on the theme, “Strong Minds – Enriched Children”.

The Sunshine Preschool children celebrated the day with a number of activities. Accompanied by the Sunshine staff, the day started with a visit to the park where they enjoyed their morning meal, followed by a visit to a preschool where they met new friends, played and enjoyed an ice-cream with them.

To enrich their minds, a visit to the local post office was arranged. Here, the post-office staff explained how letters are mailed; how people had to send letters that traveled by mail, which could take days or weeks; how prior to this, the telephone was an instrument used to talk to someone far away. Indeed, a happy and enriching day-out for the kids.

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