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මේ අවුරුද්දෙ වස්සානෙට සල්ලි හොයන්න අපි කරපු ලොකුම Project එක තමයි Colombo කළම්බු. සුපුරුදු විදියට මුල ඉඳලම උදවු වලට වඩා කරදර බාධක තමයි තිබුනෙ. ඔක්කොම වැඩ ටික කරේ සති 3ක් වගේ පොඩි කාලෙකින් නිසා අපිට සෑහෙන්න වැඩ තිබුනා.
ඒ මහන්සියේ ප්‍රතිඵල අපි හිතුවටත් වඩා හොඳට තියෙන බව අපිට තේරුනේ 16 හවස Jhon De Silva එකට ඇවිත් හිටපු සෙනග දැක්කමයි.
නම් ලියන්න ගියොත් ලොකූ ලිස්ට් එකක් එන නිසා උදවු කරපු හැමෝගෙම නම් ලියන්න අමාරුයි. ඒ උනත් ශෂිකගෙයි නියෝගෙයි විකීගෙයි නං නම් නොලියා ඉන්න බෑ. මොකද ඒ අ‍ය තමයි Drama එකේ සංවිධාන කටයුතු කරේ.
07 එකේ අපේ සෙට් එක වගේම 08,09,10 බැච් වල නංගිල මල්ලිලාත් අපිට ගොඩක් උදවු කරා. විශේෂයෙන්ම Ticket විකුන ගන්න උදවු කරපු නංගිල මල්ලිලයි, Poster ගහන්න යන්න පාන්දර 3-4 ට නැගිටල ආපු මල්ලිලයි අමතක කරන්න බෑ.
ඒ වගේම Drama එක දවසෙ Faculty එකේ ගොඩාක් දෙනෙක් ඇවිත් හිටියා. තනියෙන්ම විතරක් නෙවෙයි, පවුලෙ කට්ටියත් එක්ක එහෙම නැත්තං යාලුවොත් එක්ක. ඒ ආපු හැමෝටම ගොඩාක් ස්තුතියි. අන්තිමේදි Hall එක පිරෙන්නම සෙනග ඉන්නකොට අපිට සතුටු හිතුනෙ අපි ගැන විතරක් නෙවෙයි, නිකවැරටියෙ කැලේගම ඉස්කෝලෙ ලමයි ගැන.මොකද Drama එකෙන් හම්බ උන සල්ලි වලින් අපි කරන මුල්ම වැඩේ තමයි ඉස්කෝලෙට Computer lab එකක් හදල දෙන එක. ඒකෙ වැඩ අපි ලබන සඳුදා (2011/12/19) පටන් ගන්නවා. ඒ කියන්නෙ කැලේගම ලමයි Internet ඇවිත් මේ blog එක කියවන දවස වැඩි ඈතක නෙවෙයි. එදාට අපිට විතරක් නෙවෙයි, Drama එක බලපු ඔයගොල්ලන්ටත් සතුටු වෙන්න පුලුවන් මොකද අපි වගේම ඔබත් මේ සත්ක්‍රියාවට දායක උන නිසා.
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'Wassana Diyawara' 2012 - Project Proposal

“Wassana Diyawara 2012”

The Medical Students’ Buddhist Association is one of the most active student bodies in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. Among the number of items in its annual agenda “Wassana Diyawara” village development project is the most outstanding event organized by the society.

This project has the full blessing and support of the faculty staff.

With the assistance of many well-wishers, we have been able to execute such projects annually since 2005 at various resource poor areas in Sri Lanka.

As a continuation of this noble activity, in collaboration with the fellow students of Faculty of Medicine- Colombo, “Wassana Diyawara” Village Development Project will be launched from 10^th November 2011 until 08^th January 2012 at Kalegama, Nikaweratiya of Kurunegala district, aiming rural development and upgrading community health of the village.

Our Effort:-

For the village

Establishing drinking water supply

Due to the excessive hardness of the water, most of the wells are unusable and the only safe well that could be used for drinking is situated about 500 meters away from the temple and the school. We are planning to build a pumping station and a water tank along with pipelines to distribute the water from this well mainly to the school, the temple and the central dispensary along with two taps for public use. The water will pass through a filter on its way, so that the hardness of water will be further reduced.

For the School:-

Nika/ Kelegama Junior School consist of 16 teachers (Staff members) and 178 students. Even though there are limited facilities it has classes from grade 01 to 11. Although the school owns adequate number of buildings, they are in lack of necessary equipments. Due to financial problems and lack of stationery, attendance of students is unsatisfactory. Therefore we hope to remedy these issues by the following.

1.      Renovating and refurbishing the abandoned laboratory with damaged roof, and providing necessary equipment.

2.      Converting a classroom into a computer room and providing it with at least 05 computers along with other necessary devices.

3.      Refurbishing the library, providing necessary books and equipment.

4.       Providing drinking water from the water project.

5.      Providing music instruments to form an oriental band and to introduce Music and Dancing as subjects to the school curriculum.

6.      Providing sports equipment.

7.      Building a volley ball court within the school premises.

8.      Providing basic needs of the students such as stationery, shoes, school bags etc.

9.      Repairing and doing a colour wash for class rooms, and providing black boards.

10.  Holding extracurricular and educational sessions for the students.

11.  Conducting a 'Shramadana’ campaign and introducing the ‘5S’ concept for the proper maintenance of classrooms and school.

12.  Motivating students to enroll in creative activities and cultivating positive thinking.

13.  Holding a School Medical Inspection programme with the help of the Public Health Inspector of the area, identifying health related issues of students and treating or referring for further management.

To the Central Dispensary:-

The clinic has two buildings; a closed building and an open building. In case of emergency, no bed is available to house patients, as it has only one bed which is used as the examination bed. It also lacks facilities for proper storage of medicine. Only a single registered medical practitioner provides health care facilities during the week days, and there is no pharmacist and the pharmacy is managed by a laborer.

Our aim is to provide following, to the best extent of our capabilities.

      1.      Drinking water by the water project.

      2.      A refrigerator and cupboards for storage of medicine

      3.      A bed and a covering screen for examination of patients.

      4.      A boiler for sterilizing medical equipment.

      5.      Necessary and essential drugs.

      6.      Benches for the seating area for patients.

For the Temple

Building the Daageba (Pagoda) compound-

During the rainy season, area surrounding the Daageba becomes muddy and flooded. Therefore to avoid the distress caused, we plan to tessellate an area of 700square feet (radius of 6 feet) with cement tiles.

Building new toilets

The current sanitary facilities at the temple are situated at a distance from the temple grounds and are in a poor state, making it difficult to use, especially to the elderly. Therefore we hope to build new toilet facilities, closer to the temple premises.

Building a preaching hall ( ‘dhammashalawa’)

The temple lacks a properly built preaching hall. Therefore our aim is to help them to build it, as much as we can.

Estimated Budget of the Project:

Activity	Estimated Approximate expenses Rs.
Water supplying project	376,300/=                     376,300/=
Building the Daageba compound	35,000/=
Building new toilets for the temple	54,000/=
Building a preaching hall ( DhammaShalawa)	373,400/=
Building a flower offering stand ( Mal Asanaya)	35,400/=
Renovating the Science Laboratory	15,000/=
Providing lab equipments	40,000/=
Providing Computers with necessary devices	200,000/=
Providing library books and cupboards	30,000/=
Providing musical instruments	269,500/=
Gifting school bags, shoes and stationeries for students	300,000/=
Providing sports equipments	10,000/=
Renovation of the volley ball courts	30,000/=
Repairing class rooms and painting the buildings	105,000/=
Providing Desks and Benches for Dhamma school	60,000/=
Sitting benches for patients in the clinics	20,000/=
Providing white clothes for students of Dhamma School	50,000/=
Toys and educational equipments for the preschool	5000/=
Transportation of students and Doctors to Kelegama	50,000/=
Refreshments	30,000/=
Publicity	25,000/=
Conducting School Medical Inspection, Thalassemia screening programme ,Health Camp	100,000/=
Total	2,263,600/=

Expected income and sources:-

We hope to raise funds with;

       1.      Donations – Financial or material

       2.      Sponsorships – financial or material

       3.      Fund raising projects  -New Year cards

                                    -Donation counters at the faculty

Please contact the following students if you wish to donate to or sponsor our efforts.

            Prasanna Kumara (Chief organizer “Wassana Diyawara”)   - 0715784508

Sangeetha Wickramaratne                                                  - 0718470350

Dilan Isanga    (presidentm.s.b.a)                                     - 0776563232

           

Email-  buddhist.ucfm@gmail.com

''Colombo Colombo'' - the story of your coffin

Colombo Colombo, an award winning drama will go on broads the John De Silva memorial theatre on
16th December 2011 @ 3.30pm and 6.30pm. 

Organized by -

MEDICAL STUDENT'S BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION,          

University of Colombo.

in aid of  ''WASSANA DIYAWARA 2011'' 

What is Wassana Diyawara ????    Click here               
  

For more details - 0772073881 (Shashika)

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Cast and Credits

Playwright and Director:  Indika Ferdinando

Cast:

Anasuya Subasinghe

Sanjeewa Upendra

Jagath Chamila

Sarath Karunaratne

Thilanka Gamage

Atula Jayasinghe

Stefan Thirimanne

Sanjeewani Rathnathilaka

Amila Perera

Stage Management: 

Himashi Thakshila Withanage, Anushka Withanage, Gagana Hettiarachchi, Saman Bandara

Lights:  Thushan Dias, Himashi Thakshila Withanage

Music Composition: Theja Buddhika Rodrigo 

Lyrics: Piyal Kariyawasam

Set & Costume: Pradeep Chandrasiri

Coreography: Manubandu Vidyapathy

Make-up: Jagath Padmasiri