Himalayan News Service

Kathmandu, February 25:

To mark the National Education Day, the Children’s Development Society organised a talent show today. The show comprised dances, songs and a play. The street play Problem and Solution was enacted by teenagers at the CDS and carried a message concerning problems faced by teenagers and a solution to those.

The play covered a range of adolescent issues like attraction for the opposite sex, child rights, the initial phases of bad habits. Shayam Ghimire, who directed the play and acted in it, said, “It is easy to grab the attention via entertainment. We enacted common problems faced by teenagers and this helps them identify their problems and find a way out of those.” The audience, mostly made up of children, was thoroughly entertained. The play based around eight characters facing different situations was spiked with a lively conversation between a drunkard and priest. It concerned child rights mainly right to education, safe environment, food and shelter.

CDS president Sharad Sharma stressed it is our responsibility to protect and ensure our children’s rights. “The slogan ‘Children are zone of peace’ should be take seriously,” he said.