Together as Human

“Together as Human” was the very first educational project of the Leo club of university of Colombo which was held on 7^th March 2016. The project was mainly focused on donating library books and laboratory equipments to Kosgolla Maha Vidyalaya in Badula. The school was situated in rural area in Uva province with limited resources and 103 students were currently studying.  Therefore the Leo Club of University of Colombo has taken initiative to favor for this school.

At the outset we have arranged a pilot visit on 19^th February 2016 with the President, Project Chairman   and two members. During the pilot visit we have met the principal, staff, students and some of the parents. They were talk with us and made out difficulties that they were suffering.  After the discussion with them we have got what they were truly want and realized what we can do for them. While the journey some of the things were seen by our members. The imported thing we have noted was the deficit of telephone connection and requirement of the better dancing room. Therefore pilot visit was really important for the success of the project. 

 

With the better understanding of the pilot visit we have further processed the project by donating library books and laboratory equipments. As the part of our project we have mended the dancing room floor with concrete, distributed stationary for all the students of the school, donated a telephone connection (Lanka bell) and donated sports equipment's. Further we have conducted seminar on Mathematics and English for the students of grade 10 and 11 and impressive mentoring program for students as well as parents. Further we were organized various team building activities and fun games for other students of the school.

01.  Library book donation

When our pilot visits we have noticed that the school has a small library and it was not enough for students. Therefore the club has decided to donate more than 1000 library books for the school library. The books were represented several categories, namely Subject Related Books, Master guides(past paper books), Novels, Sinhala & English story books for children , Biographies, Literature books and Dictionaries(Sinhala, Tamil, English). 

02.  Donation of  Stationery

            We have distributed Stationery for all students and list of items was donated as follows.

           Writing books                           1000

Pencils                                     600

Pens                                        600

Pencil Cutters                          100

Erasers                                    200

Pastel boxes                           25

School Bags                            20

Pencil cases                             35

Pencil Boxes                            35

Water bottles                           35

Lunch Boxes                            35

Clear bag                                35

 

 

03.   Donation of Laboratory Equipments

As the request of principal we have donated equipments for the laboratory too. Even though they have lot of deficiencies we could donate Circuit Boards, Wires, LED Bulbs, Batteries, Magnets, Thermo Meter and Multi Meter as our capability. 

04.  Donation of Sports Equipments

Further we have donated sports items which were two Volley Balls, five Chess Boards, two Badminton Rackets and dozens of tennis ball for improving the student’s sports skills. 

05.  Mendinig the dancing room floor.

As we have seen during the pilot visit we have realize the requirement of mending the dancing room floor. Due to that we have concreted the floor by our club members with the assistance of a mason bass. We have used five cement packets for complete the floor as suitable.  

 

06.  Seminars on Mathematics and English

With the better understanding of student’s level of knowledge on Mathematics and English we have planned to conduct a seminar for grade 10 & 11 students. It was conducting as a revision session which focuses on Ordinary Level Exam.

07.  Student mentoring program

We have done an impressive mentoring program for senior students of the school to develop their life goals. The program consisted with motivational videos and inspirational speeches that encourage making their own dreams.  

08.  Activities

We have arranged many team building activities and fun games for grade 6 to 9 students and an art competition for primary students.

 

 

09.  Parent mentoring program

As the request of the staff we have conducted a mentoring program for parents of the school students because they have limited attitude towards higher education of their children.

After two days of the mega project they had arranged a small function for us and shear their true fillings with tears of their eyes. We had a nice time and made a lifelong memory with them as well as successfully completed our very first educational project with love & care, humanity, kindness and friendship. Finally we say good bye to Badulla with the intention of another service project.