Brown to Green……With the objective of promotion of green concept among the community in Kurunegala, the NWP Council had organized above exhibition in early 2017. ISB had actively involved in developing the concept, organizing the event and implementation. The event was organized under the five main themes and ISB was given a concept to “Reducing Food Waste in NWP”. ISB had conducted exhibition with demonstrations incorporating traditional practices of reducing food waste and new concepts in reduction of food waste in main agriculture value chains to raise awareness.

Further to the exhibition, ISB had organized a quiz competition among the leading schools in Kurunegala education zone under the patronage of the Chief Ministry and Provincial Education Department of NWP. Preliminary rounds were conducted before the exhibition and final round conducted at the main stage of the exhibition venue to raise awareness among the general public. The main objective of this activity was to use school children as change agents to take the message to the community to raise awareness.