Leo Club of University of Colombo

Celebrated on 15th June this year, was the biggest annual event of the world run by the United Nations, to mark the importance of the environment, which is "The World Environment Day"with "biodiversity" as the theme for 2020, which has been a great concern at present, since we can remarkably see biodiversity is in a reduction due to environmental occurrences as well as human activities. Looking back on the very first celebrations, The World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in the year of 1972, during the Stockholm Conference on "The Human Environment" After two years of the initial idea, World Environment day was held for the very first time in 1974 with the theme "Only One Earth" and ever since, The World Environment Day is being celebrated on 5th June of every year and this year, Columbia had the privilege of being the host country of this huge global event. A day taken to spread awareness of the impor...

The project LEO ගැන්සිය was executed under the project category of “Special Events” in honor of Leo Awareness Month with effort to make everyone’s attention on a contemporary concept called “Social Networking” while granting all members of the Leo Multiple District 306 to raise awareness about how it was built their social networks and all kind of experiences that they could gather due to engage in leoism. This was preceded on a virtual platform via the official Facebook page Leo Club of University of Colombo, as a challenging game where it was required all contestants to send a pleasing photograph along with the unforgettable experiences and the beautiful shadow story of their “Proud Gang” on or before 14th April 2020. Surprisingly 32 different Leo gangs have got registered and joined with this beautiful event irrespective of their Club, District and Social status. Basically the game was consist of two categories called “සුපිරිම LEO ගැන්සිය" and “ආතල්ම LEO ගැන්සිය" wh...

Survival 2.0 is the project with three phases under the project category of Disaster Management and Prevention. Due to lack of awareness and preparedness, man-made or natural disasters cause heavy damages on people’s property as well as some may lose their lives The 1st phase was conducted on 06th March of 2020 as a school awareness program with a practical session on disaster management and prevention by lecturer Cpl. Samantha Thushara with support of other NBRO officers at WP/ Mathugama Kithulgoda Junior College that was experienced landslide disaster before. The support of disaster Management Department of Sri-Lanka, the coordinating support of Lt. Col. Sujith Kulasekara was very appreciable. The second phase of the project was executed as an event on social media on how to prepare for the future that has been threatened by COVID 19 virus that has been spread all over the world. The event encouraged people to upload videos on how can use quarantine period effectively such as hom...

සෑම කාන්තාවක් ම මනුෂ්‍ය කුලයෙහි සාමාජිකත්වය දරයි.ඒ අනුව මනුෂ්‍යයෙකු ලෙස උපත ලද ඇය නිදහස්ව උපත ලබන සියලු මනුෂ්‍යයන් වෙත සමානව තිළිණ වන ගරුත්වය හා අයිතිවාසිකම් භුක්ති විදීමට සමත් වන බව අවිවාදිතය.කිසිසේත්ම ඒ කෙරෙහි ස්ත්‍රී පුරුෂභාවය නම් පටු සාධකය හරස් නොවන බවද කිව යුතුය.ඒ අනුව සොබාදහමේ තීරණය අනුව යම් මනුෂ්‍යයෙකු පුරුෂයෙකු උවද ස්ත්‍රීයක උවද  හිමි විය යුතු අයිතිවාසිකම් සමානව ලබා දීම සර්ව සාධාරණ වූ නිර්ණායකයකි. සෑම සමාජ තලයක්ම පාහේ කාන්තා ප්‍රතිරූපයට මාතෘත්වය,වෛවාහකත්වය, පවුල් සංස්ථාවක නිර්මාණය මෙන්ම පවුලක් ඒකාබද්ධ කිරිමේ සංඝඨකය ලෙස ක්‍රියාකිරීම වැනි විවිධ තනතුරු ආරෝපණය කර ඇති බව පැහැදිලි වේ.ඇය එම සියලු වගකීම්,යුතුකම් හා විවිධ කාර්‍යන්ගෙන් හෙබි විස්මිත නිමැවුමක් බදුය.කෙසේ නමුත් සමාජය වනාහි ආර්ථික,සමාජීය,සංස්කෘතික යන විව්ධ සාධකයන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් දෙයක් වන හෙයින් සෑම කාන්තවකටම හිමිවන අයිතිවාසිකම් ද විවිධාකාර ස්වරූප ගන්නා බව ඒවා අධ්‍යනය කිරීමෙන් ගම්‍ය වේ. ඇතැම් සමාජ සංදර්භයන් තුළ  කාන්තාවට හා පුරුෂයාට උරෙන් උර ගැටෙමින් කටයුතු කිරීමට තරම්වත් ශක්තියක් නැති අතර ඔවුන්ව දුර්වල ගණයෙහිලා සැලක...

“கொவிட் – 19” என கண்டறியப்பட்ட கொரோனா வைரஸ் தொற்றானது உலகின் பெரும்பாலான நாடுகளை உலுக்கியெடுத்து கொண்டிருக்கின்றது. உலகளவில் 177 நாடுகள் பிராந்தியங்களில் இப்பந்தி எழுதப்படும் வரை 877584 பேருக்கு இத்தொற்று ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. 43569 பேர் கொரோனா தொற்றினால் இதுவரை உயிரிழந்துள்ளனர். 185,067 பேர் இத்தொற்றிலிருந்து பூரணமாக குணமடைந்து வீடு திரும்பியுள்ளதாக சம்பத்திய தரவுகள் கூறுகின்றன. கொரோனா வைரஸானது சீனாவின் வூஹான் மாகாணத்தில் 2019 டிசம்பர் மாதமளவில் கண்டறியப்பட்டது. வூஹானில் உள்ள அசைவ உணவுகளின் சந்தையில் விற்கப்பட்ட விலங்குகளிடம் இருந்தே இந்நோய் பரவியுள்ளதாக சீன அரசு தெரிவித்துள்ளது. வூஹான் மாகாணத்தில் இருந்து சீனாவின் பிறமாகாணங்களுக்கும் உலகின் பிற நாடுகளுக்கும் இவ்வைரஸ் தொற்றானது பரவத்தொடங்கியது. இவ்வைரஸ் தொற்றானது ஒருவருக்கு பரவி அறிகுறிகள் காட்டுவதற்கு 14 நாட்கள் எடுத்துக்கொள்ளும். அந்த காலப்பகுதிக்குள் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட நபர் மூலம் மற்றயர்வளிடம் இத்தொற்று பரவிக் கொள்கின்றது. கொரோனா பாதிக்கப்பட்ட நபர் இருமும் போது இவ்வைரஸ் காற்றில் கலக்கலாம். இக்காற்றை சுவாசிக்கும் போது அல்லது இவ்வைரஸ் பரவிய இட...

In the last couple of weeks, lives of everyone have changed, fear and rules have overtaken their normal routines. Number of cases and deaths being reported increases by count day by day If not for the fear of being another victim of the corona-virus epidemic, you are bound to stay in your houses due to the quarantine process and the on and off curfew imposed globally. While, the optimists, may consider it an opportunity to take a break from all the busy schedules, reconnecting with their families, and finding time to engage in their indoor hobbies and interests, a majority consider it a burden to be stuck at home. But did you think, it only really depends on how far you're willing to embrace this sudden change?You could not meet your friends and co-workers for a very long time and probably be bored due to not being unable to go out, but this could be a great chance to find the things you actually enjoy doing, since almost everyone is stuck with doing something they don't enj...

In Sri Lanka the Universal Free Education Policy was introduced by the government in 1945. It was designed in order to provide free education facilities to all students from Kindergarten to the University Education. Although there are several issues associated with the resources needed to obtain for the purpose of quality education in bucolic areas in Sri Lanka, according to the recent statistics 98.3% of children are enrolled into Primary Education or schooling.  However, it is also acknowledged that some children with particular characteristics are vulnerable to exclusion from school or might be prevented from completing a full basic education of good quality due to poverty & lack of resources.  Thereby, project “Together as Humans 4.0” was organized and executed under the project category of Quality Education and Literacy as the most awaited project of the year of Leo Club of University of Colombo for the 5th consecutive Leoistic year. Typically, through this signatur...