Its Us - The Official Newsletter of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka

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IT’S US

In this issue

2 The Path We Came, History of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa4 A Journey of a Thousand

Miles Must Begin with a Single Step, Article7Leo Club of University

of Moratuwa, The Impe-rial Legend of Eminence


Leo Club of University of Moratuwa

The Imperial Legend of Eminence

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa, and the entire it is recognized as the fraternity of talented youth who want to discover themselves shaping up their future career while caring for the needy and serving the com-munity. As a University based youth club, Leo Club of University of Mor-atuwa is committed to produce self confident, flexible and internation-ally recognized graduates who are able to hit the ground running from day one, and who can realize their true potential, working together as professionals in Sri Lanka.

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa was inaugurated in year 2003 with the purpose of providing an op-portunity to the undergraduates to widen the range in socialization & volunteerism and to further expand their versatile talents. From the in-ception of the Club it is undoubtedly

repeating the legendary chronicle of youth in service throughout the last decade.

This prominent Leo Club has be-come a unique platform for young undergraduates, enabling them to utilize their time, skills and energies in a positive direction. The key ob-jective of the Club is to provide an avenue for the youth to collectively work towards their individual des-tinations as well as the betterment of the community, country and the entire world.

Membership has been always be-come the lifeblood of the club. Clearly, a strong and diverse mem-bership is essential to the success of any organization. It gives more boots-on-the-ground to any place worth going. There were many play-ers behind the screen more than

the faces on stage adding more col-ours and energy in this long journey of success.

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa is 4 times ‘The Most Outstanding Leo club in the District 306A2’ and still counting. As a highly commended model club in Leoism it has provided opportunity for all its members to be recognized as leaders within the Leoism and further afield too. The haughtiness and reputation is al-ready mounting for this opportunity while celebrating 10 years of Excel-lence with all its present and past members.

Simply, the hard work of the motivat-ed colleagues and dedicated & task oriented volunteers have made hun-dreds of dreams into reality and have lifted the club to greater heights…


‘Abhiyoga Jayagamu‘Two day Leadership Training Camp in collaboration with Lions Club of Colombo Media Circle

‘Abhiyoga Jayagamu‘ was a two day Leadership Training Camp for the Prefects of C.W.W. Kannangara Vidyalaya and Meril Kariyawasam Madya Vidyalaya, conducted by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa in collaboration with Lions Club of Colombo Media Circle. The Camp consisted of Leadership & Personality Development Sessions, Communication Skill Development Sessions, Sports & Recreation Activities, Motivational Presentations, Image Building Sessions, IQ Puzzles, Camp Fire, Hike and Guest Lectures from Mr.Sanath Gamage - Motivational Guru & Human Skills Development Special-ist and Lady Lion Nayana Wickramasundara - Journalist.

Blood Donation Campaign

More than 230 blood donors donated blood during the campaign

This year blood donation campaign of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa was held on 21st of November at Old Gymna-sium of University of Moratuwa.

By the end of the day 238 donors have donated blood. This is the highest num-ber of donations in a single day recorded in the history of Blood donation cam-paigns in the University of Moratuwa, proving that the efforts of our Leos were a total success.

During the blood donation campaign

At the begining it was really a challenging task for me to take the presidency of a well reputed club in Sri Lanka. It got too harder when the District Presi-dent for my year was also from my own club. How-ever with the experiences we have gained working as one family of UoM Leos I could keep trust on my members.

Planning & conducting various kinds of projects while giving our maxi-mum contribution to A2 family as well as to the multiple was not really an easy task. Meanwhile as university students we had to balance our academic lives with all the extra curricular activities. Any way the full credit should go to all the awesome members I had in my team. As I think we as a club had the best backup team for a district. Exceptional skills of our members has become an asset to gain many benefits and recognition to the district as well as to the multiple.

At the end of the day all the hard work and dedication was paid off by becoming ‘The Most Outstanding Leo Club’ of Leo District 306 A2 with more than 50 awards. When I look back as a president I can be proud of our achievements in the last year and hope you also would have enjoyed our work.

Finally I would like to invite you all to have a tour among the pages in this special year end edition of ‘IT’S US’ which will bring you who UoM Leos are.

Leo Chathuranga Gunasekara

Message from the President


The Path We CameHistory of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa was established in 23rd of July 2003 with the help of Lion Lester Aponso, District Chairman for Leos of Leo District 306A (2002/2003), District President Leo Shehan Kumar of Leo District 306A (2002/2003), Leo Shyana Wijayaratne and also with the permission of university admin-istration. Lions Club of Dehiwala North, a leading Lions Club in District 306A, provided the sponsorship for the club. On behalf of the university administration, Dr. Saman Thilaka-siri and Eng. Kithsiri Samarasinghe took the responsibilities of the po-sitions of Patron & Senior Treasurer respectively. Still they are here with the club strengthening the bond be-tween the club members and the university staff.

At the start of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa there were 38 charter members. Under the presidency of Leo Nadun Gunawardana Leo Club of University of Moratuwa began their journey & became the Runner-up for the best new club of the dis-trict in the 25th Annual Conference. After that in year 2004/05, Leo Ma-hesh Abeywickrama took over the

presidency of the club & continued the fabulous work from previous year. However very unfortunately he passed away in the middle of the year leaving everyone shocked. Leo Chathura Gunawardana completed the year as the president doing a excellent job after a huge set back. Then Leo Tharanga Gunasekara be-came the president of the club in 2005/06 & that was a remarkable year of the history of Leo Club of University of Moratuwa. There on-wards Leo Club of University of Mo-ratuwa had a stunning run achieving greater heights not only in the dis-trict but also in the whole island.

Some of these achievements are,• Most Outstanding Leo Club in the District in year 2005/06• Most Outstanding Club President in year 2005/06 - Leo Tharanga Gu-nasekara• Most Outstanding Leo Club in the District in year 2006/07• Leo of the Year 2006/07- Leo Tha-ranga Gunasekara• Leo of the Year 2008/09 - Leo Isuru Senadheera• Most Outstanding Leo Club in the District in year 2011/12

• Most Outstanding Leo Club in Sri Lanka in year 2011/12• Most Outstanding Leo Club in the District in year 2012/13• Most Outstanding Club President in year 2012/13 – Leo Chathuranga Gu-nasekara

Throughout all these years Leo Club of University of Moratuwa has been producing quality leaders & most im-portantly District 306A2 has benefit-ted from them every year. However when Leo Isuru Senadheera had the honour of becoming the first ever District President from Leo Club of University of Moratuwa in year 2012/13, it was a proud year for Leo Club of University of Moratuwa as it was the greatest achievement gained by any member of the club.

As UoM Leos we marched forward 10 years of service with excellence to-gether from the heart and hope the future partners will add more colours to the art of Leoism at UoM.


This project was dedicated to a set of our own people with special needs who immensly hoping the compassion and help of us not the pity. It held on 10th of March 2013 at ‘Victoria House’- A house for differently abled people at Rajagiriya. This special project is organized by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa for the third consecutive time.

There were 52, Leos & prospects from Leo Club of University of Mo-ratuwa participated in this affable patronage. In total there were 70 male patients in 5 awards while there were 100 female patients in 8 wards. UOM Leos contributed by cleaning all 13 wards, feeding them at the lunch, donating clothes for them & donating other necessary items such as soap, toothbrushes, razors etc.

Serving Hands with Loving Hearts10th of March 2013 at ‘Victoria House’

Inter School Debate Compitition

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa organized a debate competition commemorating their past president Leo Mahesh Abewikrama

Haritha Ratak-Deyata Sethak was organ-ized with State Timber Corporation on the National tree-planting day. It was a plant distribution project at St Servatius College, Matara on November 15th.

Snap taken during a debate

Leos distributing plants to school children

‘Haritha Ratak-Deyata Sethak’

Organized with State Timber Corporation on the National tree-planting day

Leo Club of University of Moratuwa organ-ized an inter-school debate competition on 29th September in commemorating their past president Leo Mahesh Abeywikrama. Eight school debating teams were invited & winner of the competition was Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa.

‘RISE-UP’ is a project jointly organized by Leo Club of Ingiriya United & Leo Club of University of Moratuwa and was held on 5th Janauary 2013 from 2 pm to 6.30 pm at No.217A, Stanley Thilakarathne Mw., Nugegoda. Dr Kuma guided participants to develop their leadership skills, moral attitudes and personality to deal with any problem in life effectively, which we may face not only in personal life but also in so-ciety.

Rise UpBy Leo Clubs of Ingiriya United & University of Moratuwa


There are some people on earth and this fancy world hides their rays of light from our eyes. Their tongue is unable to make any sound on our ears, but their eyes do. Silent Portraiture is an art competition for differently abled students, which was held on 29th January at Rohana Spe-cial School, Matara.

Children while sharing their ideas

Silent Portraiture

An art competition organized by Leo Club of UOM for differently abled students

Think Globally & Act Locally

Leo Clubs of University of Moratuwa, Pepiliyana Metro & Kesbewa in their Beach Cleaning Project

Beach is a wonderful scenery which attracts tourists’ eyes. So keeping it clean make benefits to the county. Although there are bins, people are not used to discharge unwanted things into them. There are plastic bottles, polythene bags everywhere.

We felt proud to have the opportunity to organ-ize this kind of service project because many peo-ple who observed what we did complimented us saying “Guys you are doing a fantastic job”.

Leos collecting garbage at beach

‘Api Akurata Meli Nowemu’ is an annual Maths seminar organ-ized by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa for O/L students. The project was conducted throughout two days at Central Col-lege, Bandarawela & Medawala Maha Vidyalaya, Welimada.

‘Api Akurata Meli Nowemu’ Annual Maths seminar for O/L students

‘Punchi Apea Awurudda‘ was organized to celebrated New Year festival with little cute kids at ‘Sumudu’ Pre-School. Everyone participated for events very enthusiastically & enjoyed a lot. At the end of the day a lot of toys were distributed among all the participants as ‘awurudu gifts’ appreciating their talents.

‘Punchi Apea Awurudda‘New Year celebrations with little kids at ‘Sumudu’ Pre-School

A Leo conducting a lecture


Have you ever sat on the grass watch-ing at the starry heaven in a night?

Have you ever seen the gorgeous look of the moon with white clouds, among the stars?

Once I was looking at the moon in a beautiful night. I felt how small I am in this large, unlimited universe. I could not even think about the dis-tance in between me and the moon. But one day in 1969, a person stepped on that large, beautiful moon. Because of that step his name was written in golden letters in the history of the mankind. He started his journey and the great distance

between the moon and the earth became nothing to him. However Neil Armstrong was also a man with red blood as we have. What did he have more, additional to us?

Yes. It was the COURAGE.

“Start your work. You will end half of your work” People say this because if someone has the courage to start, he won’t give up later, without achieving his success. It is needed a small first action to complete a big work. It is needed a first step to have a long journey. If you can start you will carry out.

Think a bit. You may have many dreams about the life. Have you start-ed your works to make those dreams come true?

Avoid the fear and uncertainty. Make the first step towards your goals with courage. The earth will welcome you. The blue sky will make a shelter for you. The blowing wind will pray for you. Through a long, successful jour-ney you will find the happiness, as well as you will be able to do a great service for the mankind.

So, Let’s make the first step..

Written by: Leo Sasiri Siriwardana

Past leoistic year was a fabulous year for Leo club of University of Moratuwa. Our goal was to serve people with special needs who were immensely hoping for compassion. Through-out the year we have conducted more than 100 projects in different categories & we have always tried to prosper new ideas which could help the development of the society. When looking back at the pro-jects carried out, we can be truly happy as we feel all the projects helped to make a positive impact to the society. Finally, I should appreciate the undying commitment & dedication shown by club members which enabled us to reach higher boundaries. Leo Raveen Lankanatha

Message from the Secretary Editorial TeamChief Editor: Leo Ruwan Tharanga DissanayakeNewsletter Designed by Leo Themiya Bandara


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‘Golden Netz’ is an Indoor Cricket Tournament which was organized for Leos of Sri Lanka for the very first time in the history. It was proudly organized by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa , Leo Club of Unawatuna Diamond Stars, Leo Club of Bulathsinghala, Leo Club of Negambo Host, Leo Club of Katuwawala, Leo Club of Wickramasinghapura for the Multiple. The tournament was a new experience for Leos from all over the island and was a great opportunity to pro-mote this fast spreading game of Indoor Cricket in Sri Lanka.

GOLDEN NETZLeo Indoor Cricket Tournament held on 25th of April at Fingara International Cricket Academy

Playing an indoor cricket match at Fingara Indoor Cricket Nets

‘Nari Burathi‘ was a hilarious Sinhala stage Drama, Directed by Sarath Kothalawala, illustrating the current affairs in Sri Lanka. It was staged on Thursday, 21st March 2013 , at the OLD Gym,UOM. The fundraiser was a huge success with both shows being fully crowded with more than 1800 spectators.

‘Nari Burathi’Hilarious Sinhala Stage Drama, Directed by Sarath Kothalawala, illustrating the current affairs in Sri Lanka

Few snaps taken at the ‘Nari Burathi’ Sinhala Stage Drama

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