Vesak Lantern Project

The Vesak Lantern Project is a signature project done by the Rotaract Club of Kandy organized in celebration of Vesak Festival. This year Vesak Lanterns project was held on the 29th pf April 2018. It was organized in collaboration with the Interact Club of Hillwood College, Kandy. The Rotaractors and Interactors went to the Childrens’ Home at around 8 a.m, with things needed to make Vesak lanterns. There were 35 children in the Children's Home and we made thirty lanterns with the children from morning to evening. We also provided them with a small healthy snack of fruits and chocolates. We added more to this worthy cause by donating some books for their library as well.

Through this project we were able to spend some quality time with these children while teaching them to make Vesak Lanterns, and also the children too enjoyed our company and were extremely happy to be with us. We were able to give them the love and affection which they are seeking for, even if it was for a short period of time. 

RUN 2018

RUN is a large-scale annual project organized by the Rotaract Club of Kandy in collabaration with the Alumni of Gateway College, Kandy. It is a race structured in the form of a scavenger hunt where teams which consists of four members each will be competing for a first-place cash prize of 50,000/=. Each team will have to move from one checkpoint to another while completing a set of tasks at each checkpoint. Each team will have to solve a set of clues to find out the checkpoints. The winners will be judged according to the duration taken to complete the whole course.

This time it was held on 28th of April 2018 at Trinity College Junior School Grounds. Run was followed by a Holi Fest to add more colour to the pleasant evening.

Club Assembly

The club assembly of the Rotaract Club of Kandy acts as the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the club. This is yet another signature club service project organized annually. The purpose of this gathering is to exchange ideas, options of all members with each other. This is an open forum where all the club related matters are discussed. During the club assembly the by-laws of the club are also amended. The club assembly is a good opportunity for each and every member to raise their voice on any club related matter, present a suggestion, to point out something inappropriate where alterations can be made in the future for the betterment of everyone. This year the club assembly was held on the 22nd of April 2018.

Friendship Beyond the Sea

“Friendship Beyond the Sea” was a project conducted by Team Kandy under the avenue International Services in order to celebrate the International day of Happiness which was held on the 20^th of March. 

This was an online project where all the members of the club, together, contacted rotaractors from various districts via social media to ask them the question "What make you happy as a rotaractor?". By the end of the week we gathered more than fifty responses that carried various sentiments each rotaractor shared about their experience as fellow rotaractors. These comments were then published on the official Facebook page of the club. 

This project provided the platform for the members of the club to make connections with international rotaractors and enabled them to make new friends through rotaract. 

Gami Sellang

Gami Sellang is a joint project organized by Rotaract Club of Kandy joining with the Rotaract Clubs of the Zone in order to celebrate the Sinhala and Hindu New Year on the 1st of April 2018 at the Sr. Anthonys' College primary grounds. The project aims at bringing all the Rotaractors together to have some quality and joyful time. 

The traditional New Year games were organized for all the Rotaractors who participated in the event. The project was also organized to promote the theme of the year “Engage Rotaract – Refine friendship”. Through this project the theme’s true meaning was achieved, where Rotaractors got a chance to meet each other and to build up new friendships. Some forgotten and not very popular traditional games were introduced to the new generation. 

Essence of Water

Every new day, every new project brings a challenge and team Kandy takes those as new learning experiences. There are things that seem impossible, but at the end of the day we will succeed and we learn to value the journey and the lesson to take it on further in life. We can always overcome them if we put our heart and soul with commitment. “Essence of water” which is an outstanding project done by the Rotaract Club of Kandy with the purpose of serving the community was held on the 24th of February 2018.

Galaha Hyth Village is a village which lacks a proper water supply for their daily needs. The villagers have to walk around 750m to bring water daily. We, as members of team Kandy, who are passionately looking ahead with sheer enthusiasm and energy to be a service to someone, identified this requirement of this village and took steps to give a helping hand to them for the sake of humanity. We estimated the financial requirement for this worthy cause and after collecting the required amount we started working on the project. The villagers also helped us a lot to make this dream of innocent people a reality. Within a short period of one month of hard work we were able to successfully provide them with a proper water supply.  

Factory Visit

A factory visit was organized by Team Kandy on the 2nd of February 2018, for the club members as a professional development project. The members visited Pambegama estate, which is the only manual rubber factory operating in Sri Lanka. Members started the journey from learning about the tea industry. The members involved in the process practically, along with the useful lectures given by the experts of the industry. Next the members visited the rubber factory and learnt almost everything about the rubber processing. 

It was indeed a great new exposure for the members for two of the dominating industries in Sri Lanka.