Light a Candle to Light the World

A special program was organized by Leo club of University of Moratuwa to arouse the curiosity towards mathematics of students in rural schools. “Light a candle to light the world” was held in Deiyandara National School on 23.09.2013 at Deiyandara National School auditorium with the participation of about 250 students.

Although the students in this school are having the talent and the resources, they are weak in mathematics due to the lack of their interest towards the subject. Therefore the main objective of this event was to make these students interested in the subject and arouse their curiosity to learn the subject keenly.

About 15 Leos and prospects conducted this event. The event was started around 9.00 am and from the very beginning onwards students’ interest towards the programme was clearly seen. They got a valuable opportunity to plan how to reach final goal in their lives, having the idea that “planning to fail is fail is failing to plan” within this program. 

This planning session was quite a help for them to learn how to use the knowledge, they gain from school and how to continue the gathering of knowledge and using it in day to day life. Furthermore we could encourage them in order to successfully complete the oncoming GCE O/L examination and select a most suitable subject stream for GCE A/L examination. Morning section of this programme was mainly targeted to motivate the students. Therefore it considered of fun games along with mathematics and a special video which taught them the connection between the mathematics and nature. They were further encouraged to go for higher education entering a university, by sharing the experience of Leos and prospects of the UoM.

The principle sir, all the teachers and the staff were also keenly helped us for that. Students were provided with refreshment in the afternoon break. We provided them with some practical mathematics questions papers as well. At the end of this session we felt that we could change their negative attitude to a positive one. It was a different experience for us as well, with the feeling that we could light a candle to light the world of an innocent student.