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     The third and the final phase of the project DiabCure 3.0 focused on those who are already victims of diabetes and on providing a cure for them, addressing an issue they were already facing due to the lack of medical equipment required to carry the insulin provided to them on a daily routine. For this, two hospitals were chosen: Divisional Hospital Katugahahena, and District Hospital Mathugama.      These hospitals were provided with the insulin carriers on the 28th of April 2021. According to the information given by the doctors and the staff, the patients undergo a lot of trouble having to carry the insulin given to them due to the prevailing scarcity of this supporting equipment. Although being unable to distribute the insulin carries directly to the patients, with the series of unfortunate events related to the spreading of COVID-19 virus, the equipment were successfully handed over to the doctors in charge of the patients at both of the selected hospitals to be distribute

The phase 2 of the project DiabCure 3.0 was conducted as an awareness session planned for the young community. As a school is undoubtedly the best place to find a community of young children who are the soon-to-be future of our community as well as of the whole country, making them aware of the prevention of a deadly disease like diabetes is a huge step for the elimination of diabetes from our whole community. The school Nawuththuduwa M.V, was picked for the awareness session and the children of the Advanced Level classes were the beneficiaries of this session held on the 23rd of April. It was our main objective to make these children aware of the disease and of the measures on how to prevent it. After being granted permission from the school and with the support of its very students, everything was arranged and set for the session. The awareness session was conducted in a very interactive manner by Dr. Ranjith Dissanakaya, the Chief Medical Officer at the Katugahahena Divisional Hospi

Diabetes is a Long term chronic disease which has a lot of negative effects as well as takes the life of many. The project “Diabcure 3.0 was organized as a measure of preventing this disease by conducting checkups for identifying the disease beforehand, spreading awareness and helping current patients in several SriLankan communities by looking into their needs and issues as diabetes patients. This project was conducted in three different phases where the main objective was the prevention and elimination of diabetes in different selected communities. The first phase was basically focused on identifying diabetes patients who are unaware of their medical conditions and identifying people who are most likely to get the disease and who need medical attention accordingly. Towards delivering this to the community we chose to arrange medical checkups for two communities are who are likely to have members who are prone to this disease, the first being elders in an elders home, who doesn’t have

We identified that lack of immunity and malnutrition have become one of the main issue among special needs people.  People with disabilities, whether mental or physical, are people in society who must protect their health and well-being. As previously stated, many people with disabilities are neglected by society, and many of them live in isolation from society. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation. As a result, people with disabilities' mental health is deteriorating and also they could not be able to take there their essential meals and medicines properly. Due to the declining living standards of the entire population in Sri Lanka, no one is coming forward to meet the health and nutrition needs of these people. Since the majority of people with disabilities are likely to suffer from lack of these essentials, second phase of the project continued to ensure and increase their immunity and health care.

මුලු මහත් ලෝකයාම දන්නා පරිදි පිළිකා වනාහි ඉතාමත් දරුණු බෝ නොවන රෝගයකි. මෙම රෝගය වැළදුණු පුද්ගලයින් කායික වශයෙන් මෙන්ම මානසික වශයෙන් ද කඩාවැටෙන බව කොයි කවුරුත් දන්නා කරුණකි. මොහොතකට එය කුඩා දරුවන් අතින් සිතා බැලුවහොත් ඔවුන් කෙසේ මෙම තත්වය විදදරා ගන්නවා ඇතිද. කෙළිලොල් කමෙන් සිනහවෙන් ගතකළ යුතු ළමා කාලය රෝහල් පරිශ්‍රයට සීමාවීමෙන් ද ඔවුන් කොයිතරම් දුකක් විදිනවා ඇතිද? මෙම සියලු කරුණු සැළකිල්ලට ගනිමින් ALERT 4.0 “අපේක්ෂා” අපගේ දෙවන අධියරත් මහරගම අපේක්ෂා රෝහලේ ළමා වාට්ටුවේ ඒ පුංචි හදවත් වලට නැවතත් උපකාර කිරීමට සූදානම් විය. එහිදී මේ පැතිරී යන වසංගත තත්වයත් හේතුවෙන් ළමුන්ට එදිනෙදා අවශ්‍ය වන බෙහෙත් වර්ගයන් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරනයට දායක වන බෙහෙත් වර්ග කිහිපයක් පරිත්‍යාග කිරීම අපගේ දෙවන අදියරයේ ප්‍රධාන අරමුණ විය. මේ සියලු වටිනා බෙහෙත් ද්‍රව්‍යන් සමග ඉකුත් අප්ප්‍රේල් මස 27 වන දින සිදු කරන ලදි. රටේ පවතින කොරෝනා නත්තවය නිසාවෙන් අප ලියෝ සමාජයේ සාමජිකයින් කිහිපදෙනෙකුගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් මෙය ඉතාමත් සාර්ථකව අවසන් විය.

   Keeping a good health can help to prevent chronic diseases and long-term illnesses. In 2020, COVID-19 pandemic was an enormous challenge to public health all around the world. According to the World Health Organization’s data, there were more than 110 million confirmed cases and around 2.5 million deaths were reported due this pandemic worldwide. Most people who developed COVID-19 had mild symptoms that can be managed at homes.   “Arogya” is a project which comes under the category of health and nutrition. Here we especially focus on the people that do not have sufficient resources which is necessary to protect and improve their health and safety. Our objective is to enhance the health and safety of those people.  As the First phase of project “AROGYA”  we have decided to donate some medical equipment for the health sector to give their service effectively and faster to the patients who are suffering with the Covid virus. Through the contact of our committee member we were able to k

 Project “Diyani” is one of the most outstanding projects organized by Leo Club of University of Colombo under the project category of “Women Empowerment”. As the Leo movement goes beyond the acronym, “LEO”, we must contribute our best to the society. Therefore, our sole responsibility must be formed upon to uplift the lives of those in need and voice the unheard voices in the society to march forward as the trendsetters in community serving. Accordingly, we conducted the project ‘Diyani” under three phase with the intention of empowering women and girls across the world. Thereby, we were able to conduct the first phase of the project as a virtual venture on 19th of December 2021 along with the collaboration of prominent women personalities in Sri Lanka who have recognized for their significant contribution to the nation. Afterwards, we were able to conduct the second phase of the project as a one-on-one forum organized for the young female entrepreneurs of Sri Lanka on 13th of Februar

phase 02 of “Eco Clan” was initiated under the theme “Waste can mask our future” as a further step to making this planet a better place. Through this it was aimed to provide necessary equipment’s for the promotion of proper disposable methods. Hence the provision of disposable bins for degradable and non-degradable will be taken into consideration. massive amount of waste produced these days, the concerned authorities are having difficulty dealing with the matter.  Waste segregation and management is the practice of categorizing waste materials and garbage based on what can be reduced, reused, or recycled. For this purpose, the bins were collected and labelled as surgical waste and household waste and was provided for Bandaragama Diridaru Piyasa, Sri Sucharitharama Rajamaha viharaya-Kandewaththa, Sri Punyawardanaramaya, Viharamahadevi Childrens Home and Sri Sudarshanarama Temple Galahitiyawa (Temples and Children homes as there is much more activity as people associate these places a l

The covid pandemic has caused significant changes in the production and consumption of plastic and plastic waste. Hence, the Leos of University of Colombo implemented the project “Eco Clan” for the Leostic year of 2020/21 along with two phases for the fourth consecutive time. The project was focusing on “Responsible consumption and Waste management” which is highly observed in the current pandemic situation and taking necessary steps to implement these issues. As the initial phase of the project Eco Clan 4.0, as a virtual discussion. This was held on 16th January 2021 via Zoom Cloud Meeting and Facebook live. The Guest lecture for the evening was Mr. Lakshman Jayathunga, Senior Environment Officer, Central Environment Authority, Mathara District. Through the discussion we were able to provide necessary education on irregular disposal of surgical masks, sanitizer bottles and other safety equipment and their effects and how to dispose of them in a proper manner. The current hazardous pan

Lead C1 is a project undertaken by Leo Club of University of Colombo on behalf of the Leo District 306 C1 under the project category of Youth Empowerment with the objectives of empowering the young generation through the development of leadership and communication skills, creativity, and various other skills. The project was chaired by Leo Semini Gunasekara and was executed under three phases aiming at different categories of the youth. As the third phase of the project Lead C1, a webinar was conducted on career guidance and Employability skills on 10th April 2021 from 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. in collaboration with “Career Me”, the Student Career Counselling Office, for young Leos and Non-Leos who have entered or who are soon going to enter the corporate world. Key note speaker of the webinar was Ms. Anjana Kulasekara, CEO and founder of Careerme Institute. In this webinar, the participants were provided with proper guidance and assistance to figure out the right career path and to mov

නීතිය තුළ නිදා සිටින්නාට යුක්තිය පිළිසරණක් නොමැති බැවින් බොහෝ පුද්ගලයින්ගේ ගැටළු සාධාරණීකරණයට ලක් නොවීම මිය දී යයි. බොහෝ විට ඊට හේතු සාධක වන්නේ "මුදල්" නැමැති සාධකයයි.  එනමුත් "මූල්‍යමය විෂමතාවය" කිසිසේත්ම "සමාජීය සමානාත්මතාවය" ගොඩනැංවීමෙහිලා බාධාවක් නොවිය යුතුයැයි කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලීය ලියෝවරු වන අප නිරන්තරයෙන් විශ්වාස කරන්නෙමු.  එනිසාම ලංකාවේ එදා මෙදා තුර ප්‍රථම වතාවට නොමිලේ නීති අධාර ලබාදීමේ කඳවුරක් අතිශය සාර්ථක අයුරින් පසුගිය 24 වැනිදා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති ආධාර කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සිට සජීවීව ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. දික්කසාද, ඉඩම්, වාණිජමය ඇතුළු බොහොමයක් නීති තත්ත්වයට අදාළ වන්නා වූ ප්‍රශ්නවලට මුහුණ දී සිටින නමුත් අධිකරණ පිළිසරණක් නොපතා එකී ගැටළු සමගම දිවි ගෙවන ජනතාවට නීතිමය පිළිසරණ, නීතිමය උපදෙස් ලබාදී ඔවුන්ව නිවැරදි අධිකරණ ක්‍රියාමාර්ග වෙත යොමු කිරීම මෙහිදී සිදු විය.  අගතියට පත් පාර්ශවයන් 50කට අධික ප්‍රමාණයක් විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රවලට අදාළ නීතිඥවරුන් 05දෙනෙකු යටතේ සිය ගැටළු ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් ඊට නීතිමය අදාළ ආධාර ලබා ගන්නා ලදී.  ඔවුන්ගේ පෞද්ගලිකත්වයට කිසිදු හානියක් නොවන පරිදි මෙම අ

ස්වකීය සමාජ වගකීම මනාව වටහා ගත් කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ලියෝවරු සමාජයේ දිනෙන් දින උද්ගත වන  ප්‍රශ්නකාරී තත්ත්වයන් පාදක කරගනිමින් සිදුකරනු ලබන "විසඳමු" ව්‍යාපෘතියේ පළමුවන අදියර මෙවර අතිසාර්ථක අයුරින් ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. විශේෂයෙන්ම මෙහිදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතිය ආධාර කොමිෂන් සභාව කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ලියෝ සමාජය සමග අදියර ත්‍රිත්වයකින් යුත් මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය සිදුකිරීමට අත්වැල් බැඳ ගැනීම අප ලද ජයග්‍රහණයකි. "අතිශයින් ම යුක්තිය උදෙසායි!" යන තේමාව පෙරදැරි කරගෙන නීතිමය ගැටළු වලින් හෙම්බත් ව සිටින නමුත් ඒවාට විසඳුම් ලබා ගැනීමට තරම් මූල්‍යමය පසුබිමක්, කාල කාලවේලාවක්, දැනුමක් නොමැති පුද්ගලයින්ගේ දැනුවත්භාවය උදෙසා ලංකාව තුළ නොමිලේ නීති ආධාර ලබා ගත හැකි ආකාර සමාජ ගත කිරීම උදෙසා ව්‍යාපෘතියේ පළමු අදියර පසුගිය 21 වැනිදා ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. සැබැවින්ම නීතිමය උපදෙස් ,නීතිමය පිළිසරණ මෙන්ම  සාධාරණය හා යුක්තිය ඉටු කර ගැනීමෙහිලා මානව හිතවාදී ආයතන සමූහයක් ලංකාව තුළ පැවතියත් ඒ පිළිබඳ දැනුවත්භාවයක් බොහෝ පුද්ගලයින් තුළ නොවීම කණගාටුවට කරුණකි. එබැවින් මෙම තත්වය යම්තාක් දුරට හෝ සමනය කිරීමෙහිලා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති ආධා

Lead C1 is a project undertaken by Leo Club of University of Colombo on behalf of the Leo District 306 C1 under the project category of Youth Empowerment with the objectives of empowering the young generation through the development of leadership and communication skills, creativity, and various other skills. As English has become vital and plays a major role in today’s society as a language of communication, it is important for the young generation to be well-equipped with English knowledge. In order to achieve this objective for the second phase of the project, we have organized a four month English Scholarship Program for a group of after O/L students, where the students get the opportunity to enhance their English knowledge and skills in areas of writing, reading, listening, and speaking, which will eventually pave the path for them in becoming good English communicators. The English course was commenced on 2nd of April 2021 and will continue until the month of July 2021. Mr. Indik

Just about 21% of the chemical component of air is oxygen. Nonetheless, it is important to life on Earth. From single-celled species to humans, oxygen is used to provide the energy needed to keep them alive. Trees benefit the ecosystem by supplying oxygen, improving air quality, reducing climate change, conserving water, and protecting soil. Photosynthesis is the mechanism by which trees take in carbon dioxide and provide oxygen for us to breathe. However, the majority of deforestation occurs in the tropics today. With the construction of new roads through the dense forests, previously inaccessible areas are becoming available. In response to this, Leo Club of University of Colombo initiated the project “Plant a Hope 3.0” for the third consecutive time under project category of “Environment” for the leostic year 2020/2021. Plant a Hope 3.0 is a project that we are working on to increase the Earth's green cover. Plant a Hope 3.0 would be a successful forum to inspire the society to

The project Lead C1 organized by the Leo Club of University of Colombo on behalf of the Leo District 306 C1 is a three-phase project under the project category of Youth Empowerment.  The first phase of the project "Absolute Adventures" was held on 26th February 2021 at Che Adventure Park, Hanwella mainly focusing on the objectives of empowering the young generation through the development of leadership and communication skills, creativity, team building and various other skills. The participants were able to experience a variety of team activities including Flat Water Rafting, Archery, Cable Balancing, Target Shooting and Rock Trekking. This was a one day Outbound Training Program and it was successfully completed with the participation of both Leos and Non-Leos.

The third phase of the project Suraki Hetak was concluded by a virtual awareness program on the topic of “legal background against cybercrimes” and a research under the theme of “Proclaim the legal background for cyber bullying in Sri Lanka” which emphasizes the importance of knowing laws and regulations to take against cyber bullying in Sri Lanka for creating a protected cyber space for all individuals. The main purpose of third phase was addressing the most common crimes nowadays, protecting the youngsters from cybercrimes, inform the youth community about legal background against the cybercrimes and encourage people to take legal actions against the misusers of cyber space. Leo Dinendrika Sewwandi Faculty of Management and Finance

The second phase of the project Suraki Hetak was conducted under two stages; As the first stage a road signs painting program was held on 28th January 2021, at Kureekotuwa Junior School in Veyangoda from 10.00 a.m. onwards with the participation of students and Leos of University of Colombo. The main motive of this program was to keep the students constantly make aware about road signs for preventing the dangers that may occur on the roads due to their ignorance of the road signs. The second stage was done on 16th February 2021. This was concluded by installing the accidents warning boards at two selected places where vehicle accidents are common that are Ilukhena junction and Kumbaloluwa junction according to the instructions of Sri Lanka police. This was done with the intention of controlling the road traffic accidents that happen in country roads because of carelessness and inattention. The overall goal was to minimize the number of accidents in areas where road accidents are common

"සුරැකි හෙටක් 4.0" is one of the paramount projects under the category of crime and accident prevention awareness programs. The first phase was conducted as a video series through YouTube platform in the months of January and February with the major purpose of reducing accidents by creating awareness on precautionary methods for accidents that happen in day to day chores. Accordingly, the video series covered five different areas which are road accidents, domestic accidents, and industrial accidents, accidents relating to schools, sports and picnics. We could contact the experts in each field and make the society aware about accidents and precautionary methods mentioned above. Cohering virtually was an effective way of reaching a large proportion of the population which hasbeen connected through social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube in a pandemic season like this. Leo Dinendrika Sewwandi Faculty of Management and Finance

Recognizing the responsibility of ensuring availability and sustainable management of clean water for all and ensuring conservation of affordable, reliable, sustainable energy for all project “One Drop 3.0” is being implemented by the Leo Club of University of Colombo for the 3rd consecutive time. The main objective of the project is to create a remarkably positive impact on the community as the world needs to pay more attention to clean water and energy conservation. The first phase of the project “One Drop 3.0” was completed on the 11th of January 2021, in the mode of a video documentary on “Clean water and Energy Conservation”. This was conducted to improve the awareness of the community on ‘Clean water and Energy Conservation’ was held successfully via social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube. Viewers were able to gain many new facts and insights through this event. To provide relevant facilities to the people in Sri Lanka who do not have access to safe drinking water, we s

The third phase of the project කෘතගුණ was conducted with the aim of uplift the lives of elders in society and bring a smile to their faces. This also make them feel they are not forgotten and an important in society. we identified elders are at increased risk for loneliness and social isolation because they are more likely to face factors such as living alone, lack of spiritual wellbeing and physical disabilities. Through this phase we tried to overcome these issues by way of providing statue of Buddha, a retainer of Buddha’s statue and providing wheelchair. We selected the elder home in Kurunegala and donate above things. Thus, we were able to take 11 elders from Kurunegala, Wasana elders home as beneficiaries for this phase. Through this phase we were able to increase their spiritual wellness, social wellbeing and help for their physical disabilities as well as this helped them to cleanse their mind &soul and thereby gain inner peace and mental relaxation. Overall, by completing

The second phase of project කෘතගුණ was conducted with the aim of emphasis the importance of having a retirement plan and wealth management before the retirement age. We selected people who are potential employed and undergraduates of Universities to do the program. So, we conduct an awareness program on 21st of January 2021 via zoom platform. We invited AIA Insurance Lanka Ltd to conduct the awareness program, and Mr. Rukmal Malimarachchi came as the resource person to this program. We also include a session on wealth management as managing the earned income is the key to have a better retirement life. During the session, the beneficiaries were educated on different methods to invest their money to gain the maximum benefit in future. The session conducted with attractive and meaningful presentations to aware the audience. Overall, beneficiaries got the idea about the importance of having a retirement plan and the ways to start a best retirement plan at an early stage of their life.

The first phase of the project කෘතගුණ was conducted with the aim of uplift the lives of elders in society and bring a smile to their faces. This also make them feel they are not forgotten and an important in society. we identified elders are at increased risk for loneliness and social isolation because they are more likely to face factors such as living alone, chronic illness, loss of essential foods, loss of immunization and physical disabilities. Through this phase we tried to overcome these issues by way of providing dry foods for one month, providing surgical mask, providing suwadharani immunization medicine packets for one month and providing wheelchair. We selected the elder home in Kandy and donate above things. Thus, we were able to take 22 elders from Marassana, Bopitiya elder home in Kandy as beneficiaries for this phase. Through this phase we were able to success their life during COVID 19 pandemic, improve their health, improve their immunization and help for their physical