The Drug Rehabilitation Education and Mentoring (DREAM) programme team in Kottayam organised a two-day residential leadership training for school students, in collaboration with Don Bosco Puthupally & Vimukthi Mission Kottayam, on 5 – 6 September 2022 at Chaitanya Pastoral Centre, Thellakom. The training programme benefitted 40 students from different schools in Kottayam district.
The children were trained on leadership skills and were made aware of substance abuse, its personal and social consequences etc. The trained student leaders will become “ambassadors” in the selected schools to take leadership and initiate actions for the prevention of substance abuse in the schools.
The programme was inaugurated by Mr Sojan Sebastian (Excise Assistant Commissioner, Kottayam) and presided over by Fr. Josh Kanjooparambil sdb (District Director, DREAM Kottayam). The keynote address was given by Mr Benny Sebastian (Officer, Vimukthi Mission, Kottayam). The inaugural ceremony was followed by icebreaking sessions and classes on leadership skills.
