Community Service
Nuwana: Book Donation
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Therefore, the more you make it easy for someone, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning.
Guilt Free Breath
Guilt Free Breath is a joint initiative by the Rotaract Clubs of Kadawatha, NIBM, University Alumni, Interact Club of Ananda College, Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Mahanama College, Nalanda College together with Colombo Changemakers Round Table 09.
With Global Warming in the current world, we have come to a level where people die without Oxygen in Air, where it’s a negative indication for human beings.Therefore Colombo Changemakers Round Table 09 came up with an idea to increase the oxygen level in Sri Lanka.
As a first step, they, together with the Rotaract Clubs, decided to start from Schools in Western Province to plant trees to give the Students a lesson to see the change a single tree can do and to make them take the message home to plant more trees cause they are the future of this country.
Halting Hunger
Halting Hunger is the inaugural effort of the Rotaract Club of NIBM to help achieve the SDGs: NoPoverty (Target 1.1), Zero Hunger (Target 2.1) and Decent Work and Economic Growth (Target 8.5).
The first phase of the project focused on ensuring access by poor and people in vulnerable situations, to safe and sufficient food. During the troubling times under COVID-19 pandemic with travelling restrictions and less employable opportunities, we were able to collect more than 70 lunch packets from the homes of the project committee members and to distribute the packets among more than 20 families and more than 70 individuals around Colombo area.
The second phase of the project focused on a sustainable solution to overcome hunger by providing productive employment and decent work for a family. A family of five (05) living in Kaduwela, who has been going through difficulties due to the aftermath of COVID-19 was chosen by the committee and provided with a grass cutter machine for the father as per his request as a method of earning income in a sustainable manner alongside with essential dry rations.
Small Steps
Small Steps is a project initiated by the Rotaract club of NIBM along with the Interact club of Asian Grammar school with the intention of spreading awareness on 03 social dilemmas; Bullying, Domestic Violence and Suicide. A series of flyers were shared for 3 consecutive weeks on social media platforms such as; Instagram and Facebook to address the dilemmas and create awareness on how society can help to put a stop to these issues .
And a discussion with Miss Dharini Priscilla was conducted on the 28th of February 2021 through zoom giving a more in-depth explanation to these 03 dilemmas. And as the final phase of the project, a video was shared on social media platforms to unite everyone to standup and speak out for the ones who don’t have a voice and to ‘SAY NO’ an put a stop to these dilemmas.
Stop the spread
Project Stop the Spread is a district project initiated by the COVID-19 Task Force in order to reduce the drastic spread of the pandemic disease throughout Sri Lanka. In accordance to this initiative the Rotaract Club of NIBM joined hands with the Rotaract Club of Colombo Mid-City. The project was initiated with the Kish International, a widespread supplier of the state of the art medical equipment throughout Sri Lanka. The project was conducted at the KISH International in Wattala.
First an awareness campaign by printing and pasting stickers and posters which reflect the proper etiquettes to be followed in order to reduce the spread was done. A pre visit was done by the Rotaractors in order to identify and adjust the environment inside KISH International in such a way that it does not impact the functioning of the business while it is in accordance to the SLSI certification criteria and MOH Guidelines.
As the secondary stage we have done a Staff awareness session and a training session for the staff at KISH International. Parallelly as a sub project, the Rotaract Club of NIBM conducted a PR campaign by rotating flyers throughout social media to expand the awareness scope. It was consisting with the members of Rotaract club of NIBM who wear masks and giving advises to the public to wear mask whenever you go out.
Wandana
Project Wandana initiated as a joint project with Rotaract Clubs of NIBM, Kadawatha, University Alumni together with the Interact Club of Ananda College.We were focused to show the similarities within the religions while donating a Plastic Bottle Collecting bin together with Coca Cola. Initially the project idea was to visit the following religious places while donating the bins:-
Temple -”Dhawalasingharamaya Temple, Modara”
Kovil -”Sri Vengateshwara Maha Vishnu Temple Modara”- Mosque -“DehiwalaMuhiyadeen Grand Jummah Masjid”
Church – “Ragama Thewaththa Basilica Church”Due to the pandemic situation we couldn’t proceed with the previous plan, therefore Rtr. Kalna came up with an idea to Share the Story about 16 Dreams of King Kosol
Idea behind that is to share the positive ideas and thoughts it gives within those interpretations by Lord Buddha