Piyumal Gunawardana Memorial Scholarship & Library Project For Undergraduates
Humans are born to help other humans, once said, a philosopher. We as LEOs have
pledged to help others who are in need. In the university there are enough people in need of help, we thought. Inspired by the ideas of LEO Chalitha Gunawardhana we initiated two continuous Educational projects for them. Here is an overview of them.
Piumal Gunawadhana Memorial Scholarship
In memory of Engineering undergraduate , an old boy of Rahula Collage‐Mathara & a brother of LEO Chalitha,late Piyumal Gunawardhana, Pumal Piyumal Gunawardhana Memorial Fund for scholarships & LEO Club of UOM have joined together to award scholarships for undergraduates who are in need of financial assistance.
Currently 3 level 1 students, in need of financial assistance are awarded with 10 monthly
installments of Rs1000 during the 1st academic year. The money will be directly transferred to the selected candidate’s bank account each month, by the memorial fund and LEO Club will be responsible for selection and monitoring of the scholarship program.
Priority will be given for students considering
• Net Monthly Income Of the family
• Demise of parent(s)/bread winner
• Family members still in primary, secondary or tertiary education
• parent(s)/bread winner suffering from long term health problems/disabilities.
• General conduct of the student.
The memorial Fund stated that in the future with the accumulation of funds, they’ll be able to lengthen the tenor of the scholarship and expand in to many candidates.
Library Project
One of the essentials for Undergraduates studying under any discipline is study material &
books. Yet there are always some who can’t afford them at the outset due to financial
barriers. Also there are some who no longer need the books which they used few years ago. Our library project is aimed at collecting books from the latter and maintaining a small library for the use the former.
As the beginning we were able to collect number of “Advanced Engineering Mathematics”, “Mechanics of Machines” & “Engineering Thermodynamics” Books. You also can contribute to this, by handing over any of the books especially used by 1st & 2nd year students, to LEO Chalitha.
You can enlighten the life of someone you don’t know, by giving something you no longer need.
- From "Its US" the Official News Letter
