World Standards Day

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards.The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy.

Today we celebrate the 43rd World Standard Day, under the theme: “Less waste, Better Results - Standards increase efficiency ” Although standardization is very important to nearly all aspects of human activity, ordinary people are still questioning what standardization means to their lives.

One of the most important aspects of standardization is ensuring that products or services are environmentally friendly and safe for humans. For instance, an electronic goods producer must ensure that products from its factory will not harm end users with shocks or dangerous frequencies.

For that reason, national and international standards have an important role in dictating the technical specifications of a product. Furthermore, standardized testing and assessment methods are also important to make sure products meet the necessary specifications.

And also the standardized measurement is very important in national and international society.Measurements are necessary to make everything standard, and every measurement needs a standard.

In conjunction with the World Standard Day, If everybody follows standards and uses proper methods of measurement, dangerous incidents would occur far less frequently.

World Sight Day

      "World Working Together to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness"

World Sight Day is a global event that focuses on bringing attention on blindness and vision impairment. It is observed on the second Thursday of October each year.

World Sight Day is observed around the world by all partners involved in preventing visual impairment or restoring sight. It is also the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

World Sight Day is a global observance but it is not a nationwide public holiday.World Sight Day is observed for the following reasons:

• Awareness is created about blindness and vision impairment issues which are considered to be international public health concerns.
• To motivate health ministers and other government officials to understand the problems and take keen interest in listing viable solutions and allocating resources to fight for the cause.
• To raise awareness and educate people about issues related to vision impairment, the importance of a 2020 vision, the corrective steps to be taken in order to restore partially lost sight etc.

World sight day 2012 theme is 

         "Working Together to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness"

World Post Day

                                                         Today is the "World Post Day".

World Post Day, which falls on 9 October, in every year celebrates the Anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. World Post Day was declared by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo in 1969.

Since then, countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations organized to mark the day. The Posts in many countries use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services. This time the theme for 2012: is. 

                                             "a new strategy for a new world."

The purpose of the World Post Day is to create awareness of the role of the postal sector in people's and businesses' everyday lives and its contribution to the social and economic development of countries. Every year , more than 150 countries celebrate World Post Day in a variety of ways.   

For this year, our Ministry of Posts and Postal Department  organized a World Post Day Stamp Exhibition in Postal Headquarters from October 6th  to 10th, to commemorate the 138th Anniversary of World Postal Day.

A series of events have been organized in Sri Lanka for  National Post Day ceremony at the Sir Lanka Foundation Institute presided over by Minister Jeewan Kumaratunge including a special bicycle race with 250 postmen on 09th. The Postal Authorities have issued a new set of stamps depicting flowers of Sri Lanka to mark the World Post Day and public could purchase rare stamps at the exhibition.

World Children's Day

 It is our day, Children's day !

It is said that the greatest need of a person in life is the feeling of ‘being wanted’ and ‘being noticed’. The thirst for wontedness is an unquenchable thirst, found in every human being. It is particularly true in the case of children. They long to be wanted, shown affection and appreciated. So that Children's day celebrated on various days in many places around the world, to honor children globally.Universal Children's Day takes place annually on November 20th and International Children's day is celebrated on June 1. In Sri lanka we celebrate this special day on 1st of October.

Children are the future citizens of the country. The future of the country depends upon the present children. If the children do not develop in a proper way, the country's future will be ruined. On the Children's day the neglecting people will get an opportunity to think of the future of their children. The whole society will think of its duty and responsibility towards the children. They will think of what have been done for the children in the year past and what should be done for them in the year coming. Because children are the future citizens of the country and the future of the country depends upon the present children. People will know that every individual in our society has a sacred duty towards the children.

Every year on the 1st October the Children's Day is observed everywhere in our country. Last year The child development and women's affairs ministry of our country organized the National Children's Day ceremony in Presidents' House. Among the special goodies on offer are the issuing of a Children's day memorial stamp, Flag and a National Anthem for children.For this time also there are many events organize in various areas, to celebrate this wonderful day.

Today children are thrown open to evils of drug, sex, alcohol, hard labor  abuse and violence. Thousands of little children in our country are made to slog for long hours, for little pay. Hundreds are yet to see the light of modern education. Therefore, it is a call to put an end to various forms of child abuse that are taking place in our land. Such a day reminds us of the inestimable worth of those little angels.

They are the valuable asset of our nation, the future of our land, and the hope of tomorrow. The day also invites us to acquire the fine qualities that characterize children such as, simplicity, purity of heart and mind, innocence a sense of affection and attachment, etc.

Children constitute the greatest asset of a nation. A nation prospers or progresses to the extent it is able to develop the hidden potential lying untapped in her children. In a country like Sri Lanka, where children constitute a good percentage of the population, we need to give much more attention to their all-round development. A day like Children’s Day is a right step in this direction. The day invites all of us to give children their due-love, affection and opportunities for development.

"Children are the future of our country. They are the future of our nation. So, every individual should realize the importance of the Children's Day."

Read it - Share it

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are shared and delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn" 

When u read this quote above its apparent that Donating a book once read is the best source to exchange knowledge.

 "Read it share it" is our long term community service project where we collect books from the club members and also from the public who are willing to donate. After collecting these books we donate them to public libraries, schools, universities and various other educational institutions who are in a essential need for books. Through this, these books will go to the hands of many and knowledge will be shared.

We have planned to carry out this project in number of phases and the 1st phase was successfully completed.Where we collected 350 English medium books and  donated all these books to the "Holy Angels Girls' Collage' situated in Kuliyapitiya. Books were donated to the sister principal and the books were later deposited in the library of the convent where the students could "Read it and share it"!. were donated to the sister principal and the books were later deposited in the library of the convent where the students could "Read it and share it"!.

The 2nd phase was carried out on the 08th of September 2012. After collecting 250 English and Sinhala books which consisted of books from the members and also more than 50 books donated to us by the public.

 we donated them to the Kadawalgedara "Sanasa library" which is a public library. We were warmly welcomed by the members from the "Sanasa" society afterwards a few speeches were done by the members of our club and the 'sanasa" socitey and after the donation we were presented with refreshments and also we got a lot of positive feedback from the members of the "Sanasa' society ,some small kids didn't forget to show their gratitude through a amazing piece of written work.with the successful completion of the second phase our utmost objective was once again fulfilled as they could "Read it Share it" 

                 

Currently we are planning on our 3rd phase which is also another humongous donation of medical books to the medical faculty of the "University of Peradeniya". Up to now we have already collected almost 200 medical books all related to medical education. 

Our main aim is to carry out numerous number of phases to donate books and make maximum use of a book by reading it and sharing it,So we are planning to continue our "Read it Share it" project for a foreseeable future to enlighten and widen knowledge as much as we could.

                                                                                                           

Meditation Books Donation Program

"Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind."

Another community service project organized and hosted by the Rotaract club of Kuliyapitiya is the "Meditation Book Donation program". As we received about 200 meditation books related to a special way of meditation taught in Buddhism called "Kaye Kathawa" by our own Mrs. Dammika Herath, the beloved mother of our president Rtr. Anuja Madushan.

                  we immediately planned to donate this book to devotees interested in meditation. For this purpose we chose the "Diyakalamulla sripathi pirivena" which is a known place for its unique meditation programs.After negotiating with the chief monk we decided on a date to donate the books. 

                   As scheduled on the 08th of August we all gathered ad arrived at the temple at 10.00 a.m and then met the chief monk and donated a book to the chief monk initially afterwards we were directed to the meditation hall where a meditation program was being carried out where we explained our project to the monk who was leading the program and donated a book to him and donated the rest of the books to the hundreds of devotees attending the program.

                   Our project came to an end at 11.30 a.m and it was successful as we could once again help the community by some mean by performing this humongous meritorious cause. 

                   We would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to Mrs. Dammika Senadeera,the beloved mother of our president for giving us this valuable source.

Badminton Match

Out initial professional development project for the month was a "badminton tournament' scheduled to be held on the 19th of August hosted with the utmost guidance of our project chairperson Rtr. Isurujith Amarasinghe.
  
           As planned we all gathered at the discussed venue which was the 'Shilpa Shalika" indoor badminton stadium on the 19th of August 2012 and along with the participation of ten members we started the tournament at 3.00 p.m. Matches were played in mixed doubles and male singles after a tough game the tournament came to an end at 6.00 p.m and winners were chosen from both categories.Winners were presented with prizes to remark their achievements and our objectives which were to improve and develop the sporting skills and team unity among our members was successfully achieved through this project, which overall made it more than successful.