NONIMI SENEHASA

        As human beings we can’t live alone. Our lives are always about being taken care of or being a caretaker for others. We are growing by learning nurturing, love and compassion. Taking care of elders may be difficult due to their physical and emotional problems.

        

       But elders are the one who deserve our honour, love and care. 28^th of August 2016 was a special day for the elders of Aluthwala Amaraseela Elders’ Home because they could feel the love and affection of UoM Leos.

    We spent the whole day with elders and shared the happiness. We cleaned their premises and made it more pleasant for the elders to live. We bathed them and served meals to them. True smiles in the faces of elders came up by passing many barriers of wounds. It was a day they were blessed from the warm hearts of UoMLeos.

       

          

14th INSTALLATION CEREMONY

Desire is said to be the starting point of achievements. Once we have a vision and a decision for an achievement we will reach it eventually with the helping hands of courage, dedication and unity. We, Leos of University of Moratuwa possessed so called helping hands and we all got a unique vision through our career. We have spent another lively year, illuminating thousands of hearts, making a smile on thousands of faces while spreading the message of humanity. We have never failed in believing the unwavering truth of the saying “The more you give the happier you get”. We were able to spend a year full of blissful memories which last forever.

Having completed another successful year, we are about to dominate the centennial dawn of the Leostic years. On the 10th of September 2016 we took the first step of our journey through the challenging path of the New Year. Installation of the new leaders who will be the backbones of this centennial arena was done on that special day. 

Chief Guest for the 14^th Installation Ceremony of the Leo club of University of Moratuwa was the President of the Leo District 306A2 Leo Kesari Seneviratna PMJF. The head table was spirited with dignitaries of Leo District 306A2.

Leo Shehan Akmeemana became the Main Pillar by being appointed as the President for the leostic year 2016/2017 while Leo Yasiru Nilan became the Secretary for the dawning year with  Leo Achala Isuru  became the treasurer. The installation became a stylish event remarking the emergence of another distinctive year where UoM Leos will treat the world with their beautiful souls bound to do the best.

ARANA

Historically, cleanliness has been considered as one of the important factors by which a society’s development can be measured. All the religious leaders, including Lord Buddha, placed a great emphasis on cleanliness and purity both physically and spiritually. 

A temple is a place of developing the spiritual life of people. Therefore a temple should be clean, calm, peaceful and a quiet place avoiding unnecessary noises. 

To fulfill this and to improve the happiness of members by doing community development projects, we took another step in the series of continuous projects, ‘ARANA’. It was a shramadana campaign held at Kodagoda Rajamaha Viharaya, Imaduwa on 20th August. We cleaned the temple premises, painted the buildings and helped the ongoing construction work at the temple premises. 

It was a successful event with the participation of Leos and prospects of the club.  

Suwa Sarana

Let the groundwork of happiness be the good health!

Good health is the utmost wealth that anyone can have in life. UOM Leos conducted an Awareness program about non-communicable diseases at Yatiyana Medical Center to spread the message on health. Apart from conveying that message with the help of the MOH, they conducted a health camp. Eye checkups, blood tests, breast tests, random sugar tests, thyroid checkups were done on the occasion for villagers for free of charge. The participants were refreshed with kurakkan kanda. The villagers were addressed by the Public Health Inspector at the end of the session.

19th of August 2016 was an inspiring day for the villagers in Yatiyana. With the help of the UOM Leos they received the guidance towards the paradise of health.

SENEHASE SATHKARAYA

Giving a smile to someone who forgot to smile is the best thing someone can do. 
                                          ~Mother Theresa~ 

Parents are the people who made their kids grow up, pampered them, spent their whole life for them and now are in need of help as they grew old with gray hair and painful bones.

Although parents never let their kids to be helpless as they grow up, in the present most of the children neglect their parents and let them be helpless in  elders’ homes where they are only provided with just shelter and food not the love and affection they need.

So we, UoM Leos thought of visiting one such place to spend the day with the lonely elders and give them some love and affection they seek in the later parts of their lives. We paid a visit to Thihagoda Elder’s home on 31st of July with hearts full of love and affection.  First, all the elders were bathed and then all their clothes as well as their living areas were cleaned. After the cleaning was done we were able to give them a proper meal, and a moment to relieve their pain and enjoy by singing along with us. At the end of the session, innocent smiles on their faces depicted the success of our effort to bring some love and affection to their lonely lives.