Leo Club of University of Colombo

     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