Medical Test at Delgoda

On the 8th of October, 2016 had a medical camp at Delogoda Dhanawardana Temple.

More than 300 participants were in attendance

Fasting Blood Sugar test and High blood pressure was checked over 200 persons.,.

These tests we organized by the Rotary Club of Colombo

Dental Health Check and General Medical check ups were also organized by the Narangwala Elders Association

Rotary Foundation Global Grant Provides Clean Drinking Water to Five Villages in Anuradhapura

The Rotary Club of Colombo, D3220 Sri Lanka declared open five reverse osmosis filtration plants to provide safe drinking water to five village communities including two schools, in Medawachchiya, Parasangaswewa, Nochiyagama, and Maha Wilachiya in the Anuradhapura District, North Central Province of Sri Lanka where the prevalence Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) has shown an alarming increase in recent years. Approximately ten thousand men women and children living in these areas will benefit from these plants. The village communities were also provided with an education on water, sanitation and its relationship to better health and related safety issues to bring about positive behavioural changes.  

The total cost of the plants approx. Rs 8.7 million, (US$ 60,000) was funded by a Global Grant from the Rotary Foundation and supported by the Rotary Clubs of Katsuura, Japan, Nuremberg, Germany and Rotary International Districts 2790, Japan and 1880, Germany.

Children enjoy safe drinking water

Plant Room at Sri Siddhartha Maha Vidyalaya, Maha Wilachiya

Rtns President Mohammed Abidally and IPP Setsuko Urushibara ceremonially decalre open water project at Kirrigallewa, Medawachiya

Rtn's from the Rotary Clubs of Colombo, Anuradhapura, and Katsuura (Japan)

Plant Room at Amabagaswewa, Parasangaswewa

Ralapanawa Janapada Vidyalaya, Nochiyagama

St. Paul's Milagiriya Interact Presidents installation 2016

Thanks to the dedication of Ann Shanthi for repairing the toilets at the Day Care Centre at Rasenthirakulam, Vavuniya, the children now have a clean toilet.

This day care centre is situate in a remote village called Rasenthirakulam about 15 km from the Vavuniya town.  There are 28 to 30 children attending this day care centre on an average every year.  They come from very poor families, from the ages of 3 to 6, a mix of boys and girls.  The mothers leave them here at 7 am, and collect them around 1 pm, while they do some  farm work close by.  There are two teachers  in charge of these kids, and they are taught, English, tamil, arts and crafts, and a bit of dancing too.  These children are a mix of Muslims,   Christians and Hindus.  They are given a mid day snack comprising of cow pea,  mung beans, manioc etc.  Funding is provided on a monthly basis by a few of us, and the rest is supported by the church. With a few friends, Rtn Upali and Ann Shanthi De Silva has been visiting this place regularly over the past several years.

Due to lack of funding, basics such as decent toilet facilities are not available. What exists are a few broken down, dirty toilets which do not even have doors.  Since Water and Sanitation are one of the priorities for the Rotary Club of Colombo, Shanthi wanted to carry out this project as her contribution to the Club this year and she did a fund raiser on her own to collect some funds to do up the toilets.  She had  an afternoon of activities in our apartment party room  and  was able to collect 225,000/-.  With these funds she went ahead with the toilet work.  The toilets were colour washed and tiled,  squatting pans were replaced with new ones and 2 new doors fixed. The building where the children study and play was also in a very bad shape.  So with the balance money it is now being colour washed.  Below pictures from Rtn Upali and Shanthi's inspection visit in 17th August.

Toilet before repair

Toilet after repair

Outside area after repair

The next project at this centre will be to get a tube well done, as the present well goes dry during certain months, and to provide pipe borne water which is currently not available.