Rang Dey'16

“Rang Dey’ 2016” was the Holi festival organized under theme explore, energize ,celebrate by  the Leo club of university of Colombo which was held on 25th September 2016.Though the project seems to be of entertainment there was a hidden motive behind this mammoth project.  Therefore it can be regarded as the main fund raising program of the year where the Leo’s were able to complete fund the project “Arogya’16”. In short Holi festival was a success, which was evident by the number of participants.

As stated above in the introductory paragraph we, Leo club of university of Colombo started this project with ample objectives to serve the community in need. A glimpse of our objective that we intended to achieve via the project “Rang Dey’2016” the Holi festival are as follows;

Objectives of “Rang Dey’16”

• ·         Raising funds for initiate the project”Arogya’16” which is a medical camp focuses on far-off , impassable area in Anuradhapura District with lack of health facilities and medical resources.
• ·         Set up financial assistance to continue to the project “together as human “ which was awarded as the Most Outstanding Education project in 201502016 of Leo Multiple Award Ceremony which focuses on an underprivileged school in Kalawana.
• ·         To share the colorful experience for participants with enjoyment and get away from their monotones life.
• ·      To get a better platform to inform about the club service projects and the requirement of serving society and community development.

At the outset the organizing committee of the project has discussed and prepared a plan to conduct the project. Then we searched a location to hold the event and prepared the project proposal to inform the aim of the project to the outside. Next the project chairperson assigned works to do and report them in the next committee meeting. We have conducted nearly 5 meetings to get information about the condition of the project at that moment. 

With the gathered information we reached the sponsors for sponsorships, banners etc. at the same time we reserve the location of the event and obtained permission to held the event. Then we issue tickets to collect funds to buy the necessary items for the event. With the help of the club members we packet the color packets for the event, and arrange the ground to make this event a success.

The ticket counter was opened at 10.00 a.m. and the event was officially started from that moment onward. There were food stalls, game zone, henna arts stalls, and many fun games organized for the participants to take part. the club members as well as many visiting Leos took part in this entertaining event. Altogether the winners of the games were awarded with attractive gifts. Many colorful memories were created on the event venue.  

Since we concluded the project the Leo club of university of Colombo was able to achieve the stated objectives. In brief the project Arogya’16 was fully funded by the money raised by “Rang Dey’16” and also we have been able to fund the project together as human as well.

Apart from that with the success of the project, where it had been the talk of the town the Leo club think that we were able to acknowledge what we stand for a mass audience in such a short span via the participants , sponsorship parties, corporates and fellow university students.

It was indeed a joyful event for all the participants where they celebrated and enjoyed it to the fullest. Is evident by the photographs that were taken on the event, which is now available on our official Facebook page.

In a nutshell the Leo club of university of Colombo was able to conquer the established objectives of “Rang Dey’16” with the ultimate support of organization committee of the project, Guidance of club president and secretary and all the club members, all the participant and every other person who supported by any means.