Chief Guest Speech In School

Your Excellency Honourable Maithripala Sirisena, Ministers, the Principal, Teachers, Parents, Guests and my dear prize winners.
For all of us at Zahira, today is a historic occasion as our chief guest is the much loved President of our motherland. I welcome you Sir on behalf of my board, my Principal, teachers and dear children. I wish to highlight some matters which are very near and dear to my heart.
Initially Zahira was a leading school in Sri Lanka. Our archives evidence students who came in from India, Pakistan, Singapore, the Maldives and far off Africa. Amongst Sri Lankans the former speaker the Late Mr K.B. Ratnayaka, Ministers Mr. Abu Sally, Mr. Naina Marikkar, Mr. M.H.M.Ashroff to name a few esteemed students from the four corners
We were able to solve a few of their pressing problems. We helped with infra-structure by building new classroom buildings, toilets, organised extra classes, motivational and leadership programmes, introduced sports and vocational training and breakfast programmes. What we accomplished at Zahira during the last six years is evident to the eye, but sad to say some people without helping us and using their energies to solve the problems faced by our children carry on a campaign against the success of Zahira. They manipulate the poor of the area by saying that Zahira belongs only to the Muslims of Colombo Central. My vision is to open our doors to the best talents from all the communities all around Sri Lanka like Royal, Ananda and Trinity.
Today school admission is a big problem for parents as popular schools can take only a limited number of students. We know how devastated parents are when their son does not get admission to year one. The inability to get into a desirable school leads to corruption and frustration. We believe that we have found a solution to this