HOPE Helping Hands at Arun Shanthi Nivas

One of our members when visiting Arun Shanthi Nivas, came to know that the children of that home was in need of exercise books. She informed about this in a general meeting. There were about 25 children in the home. Then the members decided to donate some exercise books for the children of the home.

We went there on the 15th August, 2010. Then initially we had some fun events for the children there. We had musical chair game for them. Some of the children sang songs too. Then around 5.00 pm we distributed cake for them with tea. After that the students had a prayer which they do regularly in the evening. After that we distributed the exercise books for them. As we were talking to the management they said that they are in need of donations for dresses as well. This was brought to the concern of the board and we are also planning to donate some dresses for them very soon. After having a chat with the children the members came back carrying lovely memories.

HOPE Raffle Draw

The club was looking into ways to how to implement continuous projects since we needed a good financial state to do projects. In this situation, one of our members came up with an idea of selling raffle draw tickets.

Raffle draw tickets were printed and distributed among the members. A ticket was priced as Rs 20/=. Each member was given 50 tickets to sell. The member who sells more number of tickets will be entitled for a surprise gifts.

HOPE Game Stall

The club was looking into ways to implement continuous projects since we desperately needed good financial status to do projects. This time too we planned to have a game stall at the St Lawrence’s church carnival.

This is the second continuous year our club is doing this project. As the dates for the carnival was informed, our members went and spoke to the management of the church and reserved a stall for the club. Few weeks prior to the date we started planning the games and event. As planned we went to the stall on Friday and started the events. We had several games like lighting 25 candles with one match stick, darts, bottle and ring and bow and arrow. Winners of the games were given valuable gifts. MICOM institute and Bayleaves restaurant gave us sponsors for the gifts.

HOPE Dirt Free Beach

Wellawata Beach is long being a place for the masses to spend their leisure time in the evenings especially on Sundays. But now it has become a disgusting place covered with garbage and has hampered the cleanliness of the beach. So as Leos we decided to clean our beach and make it a pleasant place for the people. This is one of the annual and continuous projects of our club.

We had it on the 18th July, 2010. On the day of project we started the work as we announced to keep up our punctuality, though we had only few at that time. Then in an hour’s time about lots of people gathered.

Club provided the gloves to all those who joined with us in cleaning beach side and collecting the plastics, polythene and bottles. The Club also provided the breakfast for all who participated. Honourable minister Rauf Hakeem, who came their also praised us and encouraged us to continue the social service that we do. Even some public came forward and motivated us to precede these kinds of community projects which they will also support in future. Finally we were able to collect 30 garbage bags full of polythene and plastics which are handed over a local recycling company. This project gave us a huge satisfaction as we did a contribution to the area in which we live, for the benefit of all its residents.

HOPE Cricket Tournament and Kite Festival

One of our Board members came up with an idea of having a kite festival for some students who are less fortunate. After having a discussion with the members, we decided to have a Kite festival and cricket tournament for the students at Ratmalana Hindu College who are internally displaced students

We planned to have it on the 17th July , 2010. First we started with the kite festival. Our members divided the students into groups and each group was given a kite. Then they happily started flying kites. They were having competition among themselves to see whose kite is flying high.

After some time we stared the cricket tournament. It was organized as six a side matches. We had three matches in which one team was from students and one was formed with our Leos. There were many talented players among those students. Both the students and our Leos enjoyed playing cricket a lot.

Then we served refreshment for the students. After that prizes were given for the winning team. Exercise books were given for all the students. Winning team received a pack of ball and the best batsman received a cricket bat.

HOPE Film Festival

The club was looking into ways to how to implement continuous projects since we needed a good financial state to do projects. In this situation, our board of directors decided to take a bit of risk and organize a film festival. We bought all the tickets of the show on the 19th June 10.30am show for the Film Ravanan at concord premier hall. We printed some tickets with having a reasonable profit and sold them with the help of the members. The fund we raised from this film festival will be used for our future projects.

Installation of the board members 2010/2011

The new board was installed on the 3rd of July, 2010. New President Leo A.Y. Faiz Ahamed Faiz was installed by the club Advisor. The chief guest for the evening was District President District 306B2 Leo Supipi Silva. Leo Faiz unveiled his theme for the year HOPE