Rotaract Club of Uva Wellassa University-Badulla

Lack of adequate attention towards senior citizens is a grave concern in our society today. Faced with challenging economic situations, competitive working cultures as well as the never ending race to ensure the survival of the fittest, family responsibilities and values are diminishing at an alarming rate. As a result, elders who struggle to make a contribution towards the economy are considered a burden by many of their children and relatives who ignore the responsibility of caring for them at this late stage of their lives. Then we, Rotaract Club of Badulla initiated this Suwani project to give our contribution to fulfill the needs of the elder community in Uva province and to improve the basic infrastructure facilities in the elder's home and provide necessary medicines to them. Medicines and necessary equipment for the kitchen were donated to Kailagoda Elder’s Home on 17 th of July 2019, in order to improve the situation of the elder’s home and didn’t forget to spend time wit

 “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. The Cannan Harvest Children’s home – Badulla is home for children at the age of 3-20 who doesn’t have their parents or any other relations due to legal problems. Upon a request made by the sister in charge about the requirement of cloths and other essentials, Rotaract Club of Badulla took an action in order to work their request and provided the necessary requirements along with the tea party to make children happy. Main objectives of this project were to develop better environment for children inside the house, to provide essential equipment and cloths to the children and to create positive relationship with the kids. First the project committee met the Sister in charge of the Cannon Harvest Children’s home – Badulla and discussed about their requirements. Then the committees rechecked those requirements with the government because the children’s home is controlled by them. Their main requirement was cloths. Because

The Rotary District Governor of District 3220- Sri Lanka and Maldives, for the year 2019/20, Rtn.PHF Sebastian Karunakaran visited Rotary Club of Badulla and Rotaract Club of Badulla family on Sunday 04th of August 2019 at Heritage Resort Badulla. It was a great opportunity for Rotaractors to meet the District governor and communicate with him about current status and future plans of the club. It helps to build up a good public image about the club in the Rotary district 3220-Sri Lanka and Maldives. It was a well spent quality time and the governor was fully satisfied with the presentations given by the club and gave his word to support through the future club projects.