Heal A NATION 3.0

Heal A NATION 3.0Heal A Nation is an exchange based community development program conducted with the vision of educating young minds to make a healthy Sri Lanka. It mainly focuses on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and non-communicable diseases which have been a huge threat to the global community as well as to the local community.

“Heal A Nation 3.0” brought together 7 young volunteers from all over the world who were willing to engage in creating awareness on STDs and Non communicable diseases among youth in Sri Lanka for a 6 weeks project. This was commenced from 11th of January to 21st of February. Interns were also provided with a good knowledge about STDs and its situation in Sri Lanka by info sessions conducted by STD unit and STD related NGOs in Sri Lanka.

As a youth organization, we believe that educating the youth and giving them a comprehensive understanding about the issue and its current status is the key to achieve our goal in long term. As a step to reach our goal many workshops were conducted throughout the country targeting the youth of Universities and Schools. University of Moratuwa, University of Peradeniya & ESOFT College of engineering were only few of them.

Presentations and many interactive activities were done by the interns with the aim of developing the discussion about the STDs and non-communicable diseases . Interns of Heal A Nation participated for the blood donation, shramadhana & donation camp which organized by the KDU allied science faculty in blind & deaf school Rathmalane . They also put a stall in NSBM carnival.

Apart from the Sri Lankan community, this project was able to create an impact on interns in many ways. They were able to experience the social impact of STDs and non-communicable diseases and gain a good understanding about them. They had the opportunity to experience the natural beauty as well as the culture of Sri Lanka and participate in many events which brought them memorable moments that they would never forget.

Ripple effect 5.0Ripple Effect is a project which gives volunteering opportunities to Interns and mainly focused on the issues of the neglected communities in the society. In this project EPs and OC members will work towards to send a message to those neglected communities that people are concerned about them and they are not alone. Through this we hope to make an awareness among the people about the issues face by different parts of society.

Ripple Effect 5.0 team celebrated Christmas event in Lauries Children Home. They decorated the premise, danced with children and provided them some gifts. Most Importantly , they gifted children a Christmas tree to celebrate Christmas . Children were really happy with the event.

Interns visited to the Cancer Hospital of Maharagama. Young children suffering cancer got involved with the interns and they had a great time getting to know these children. They even made origami figures on the spot and presented them to the children as gifts. Furthermore certain gifts such as stationery items were handed over to the hospital for distribution among the children.

Ripple Effect 5.0 team organized similar kind of events in Colombo School for children who need special care and in Liberty Lanka International Montessori. Interns were really enthusiastic and they were inclined to community services because of the project.

Project Earth was mainly focused to do sessions for the school children who are in grades 9, 10 and 11. Earth1.0 considered many types of environmental pollution ways to address the issue of environmental sustainability. Create Awareness on environmental sustainability among school children was the main objective of the project.

Ten enthusiastic interns joined with the project. . Two training sessions were conducted to the interns. First session was aimed to improve the presentation skills and the Second session was allocated to improve the technical skills.

Earth 1.0 organized six sessions in schools all around the country including Deniyaya National School and Debarawewa Central College.Through the sessions organized at schools Earth 1.0 was able to make the awareness among school children about the environmental sustainability and expected them to spread the message among others. People’s Leasing & Finance PLC was the mainsponsor of the Earth 1.0 project.

earth 1.0

The ART project was initiated by AIESEC Colombo South with the objective of promoting Sri Lankan Design Theories, Culture and Essential Teachings with the collaboration of International and Local Design students and Industry Experts.

Six exchange participants from three different countries joined with the project. They participated in series of lectures and workshops conducted by the Fashion Designing and Product Development, Department of Textile and Clothing Technology together with local Fashion Designing undergraduates, to produce a dress to Sri Lankan or foreign market which is inspired by traditional art and crafts during the Kandyan era of Sri Lanka.

The exchange participants together with undergraduates explored the Colombo city and other areas in Sri Lanka to get an understanding of how the culture differs from Colombo to other areas in the country.

The art project 4.0

“ During this project I learned about the history and cultural heritage of Sri Lanka, but the

important knowledge I gained from this project is how to socialize with people from different

countries. This made me gain self-confidence on myself, which made me improve my

communication skills. In this project we had many chances to present our ideas in front of

faculties in the University of Moratuwa, this made me overcome my stage fear. To be

honest, now I can give speech on any topics without preparation. This internship was an

ones in lifetime opportunity which had many sweet dreams. I just wish everyone to have this

experience if possible because this is a life changing experience ”

Prithvi KumarIndia

Project Astro was initiated by AIESEC Colombo South in order to create awareness on the importance of astronomy for the school children who lacked even the basic concepts of astronomy.

Seven exchange participants joined with the project. An introduction to Astronomy was given to them by the Astronomical society of the university of Moratuwa. A training session was done by the Arthur C Clerk Institute to give the exchange participant the required knowledge about astronomy.

Astro 1.0 organized four school workshops. The students that Astro reached did not even have the basic knowledge on astronomical aspects. It is with great enthusiasm that they learnt the subject while having a fun filled time with enthusiastic exchange participants. So The fact that they got an introduction to astronomy ws a great achievement for Astro 1.0 project.

astro 1.0

switch off 2.0Switch Off is a Global Community Development Project which was initiated by AIESEC Colombo South with the intention of focusing on energy conservation and making public awareness about alternate energy production.

The main objectives of the Switch Off 2.0 was to acknowledge the public about importance of electricity, to create awareness to school children about the importance of saving electricity and to create an impact in society, minimizing the wastage of electricity.

Ten exchange participants joined with Switch Off 2.0. They successfully completed six school sessions. Initially they did a documentary survey about how energy is consumed by random individuals. Swich Off team visited puttalam wind power station to learn about how renewable energy is utilize in order to generate electricity. They did an energy audit at University of Moratuwa to get an idea about the importance of energy audit for energy conservation and how energy audit is carried out. To give a better understanding and promotion for the project Switch Off 2.0 team created a video including the events of the project.

AQUA 3.0Aqua is a green initiative of AIESEC Colombo South with the intention of focusing on the conservation of water and addressing the water related issues prevailing in Sri Lanka, thereby ensuring the Community awareness on Sustainable Utilization of water.

Aqua 3.0 was sponsored by Peoples’ Leasing Finance and fourteen exchange participants joined with the project. They carried out school sessions with the content of Domestic Water Conservation, Innovative tips on Saving Water, Maintaining a Balanced Water Cycle, Water related issues in Sri Lanka.

FEEL LANKA 8.0AIESEC Colombo South initiated FEEL Lanka project with the prime objective of promoting and improving the tourism industry in Sri Lanka.

Last winter, FEEL Lanka was implemented for the eighth time, in which the main focus was to promote traditional handcrafts, Sri Lankan cuisines. Thirteen exchange participants joined with the project from the countries India, Singapore, Lebanon, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia.

Exchange participants got the opportunity to travel across Sri Lanka and visit most of the touristic attractions, such as Kandy, Sigiriya, Yala National Park and so on. During these visits, video clips and photographs were taken to be included in video documentary which was used to promote the tourism industry in Sri Lanka based on the mentioned subjects. Documentary video has been uploaded to the AIESEC Colombo South youtube channel. Jetwing and Tra sponsored for the project.

During the project period huge online promotions were carried out using the Feel Lanka fanpage which helped to pass 7000 Likes for the fan page.

HODIYA

Gurugedara & GLOBAL CLASSROOM

The preschool project – Hodiya was done in style once again this with the number of twenty seven exchange participants from eight different countries including Russia, Lebanon, Singapore, China, Portugal.The project was mainly centered on two cities, Wadduwa and Piliyandala, Garden Preschool Wadduwa and Guidance Preschool Piliyandala. As the project was targeted on pre school kids they got the chance to learn from exchange participants. Their creative abilities and English language skills developed. And also personal grooming of the kids get developed upto certain extent by this project.

Gurugedara and Global Classroom are projects initiated by AIESEC CS to improve the English and IT literacy among underprivileged children in Colombo suburbs. This winter these two projects were able to reach schools which are far away from Colombo.

Exchange participants who joined these projects were possessed the required skills and knowledge required to teach English and a proper understanding on teaching methods and approaches. They used subject related materials with different teaching styles to enhance the students’ learning capacity of the English.

iFLYiFly is the brand started in 2015 by OGX of AIESEC CS. iFly was launched in order to promotemain product of outgoing exchange (OGX) of AIESEC COLOMBO SOUTH which are the OGIPand OGCDP internship for undergraduates. Both these internships in a foreign country willguarantee you a life changing experience. In OGCDP internship you will have to volunteer in acommunity development project with many other interns of other cultures for a period of sixweeks.

Special marketing team was appointed for the online and offline promotions with four members.For initial step a marketing plan was designed with collaboration of LCVP Marketing and LCVPOGX. A public Facebook page was published as iFly in order to conduct the online marketingalong with a website (ifly.lk) to attract potential EPs. iFly was used as a standalone brandwithout engaging AIESEC and CS brand in order to give out the idea that you don’t have to be an AIESECer to go for an internship through AIESEC which was a huge success.

A planned poster campaign was launched targeting new intake of the university through Facebook page to collect sign ups. Experience sharing of past iFly EPs were shared in both website and page frequently. Sign up potential EPs were followed individually through OGX members to make maximum realizations out of it.

After few weeks of online promotions physical promotions were started. First one was the iFly stall at AIESEC CS global village where iFly got exposed to newbies and non-aiesecers as a life changing experience for an individual. On parallel with these promotions. iFly info-sessions were conducted successfully by OGX members. As second part of iFly promotion Champaign an Organizing committee was appointed including members of new intake called AVION.

Through AVION first task was to decorate inside of university with iFly brand and it was done by decorating using paper rockets and more people were talking and searching about iFly and what it does after that. Visibility of iFly increased dramatically through this period.

After one week of brand promotion through paper rockets a game was introduced to the same rockets with gifts for the winners. The game was published through the page and it was a simple puzzle to find a code regarding a country for a day. The game was conducted for 5 days successfully and winners were given cool iFly t-shirts. A photo shoot was also organized through AVION project in order to increase the visibility of iFly. Parallel to these few session were organized in external institutes to promote iFly in those institutes. First phase of first ever iFly campaign was conducted successfully.

Through iFly campaign about 100+ signups were made, as iFly team our desire is to make most of them realized and allow more people to have life changing experience for themselves. iFly campaign can be said as a successful and a remarkable campaign in AIESEC CS OGXhistory. The signups which has been collected through the campaign has been more than 100 and currently there are around 40 matches of the raised EPs. The campaign has been mainly coordinated and organised by the OGX members including Hansika Weerasena - Marketing Team Leader, Paveen Perera – Organising Committee President of AVION OC.

LEAD CS 2.0LEAD CS is a Leadership Development Seminar which is yearly organized by the AIESEC CS, in order to develop the leadership skills and to provide the knowledge on AIESEC to the AIESEC Colombo South members. This was successfully held for the second time as LEAD CS 2.0 at SanctuaryHouse Negombo with the participation of 200 delegates. This was a 3 days event started on 19th December 2015.

Miss Ola Talagaa, National Vice President of Outgoing Global Internship program at AIESEC in Poland, was the chairperson of LEAD CS 2.0 and there were nearly 15 international participants. The Companies Sierra Cables and Virtusa, mailnly sponsored for this biggest event. Most colored and interesting events were the Out Bound Training, which was totally conducted by the 361 Out Bound Training Academy, and the Award Night which was held in glamorous, under the participation of Vice Chancellor of University of Moratuwa, as the the Chief Guest. And the Young Leaders who showed their colors for the AIESEC CS, were awarded there and Mr Kushan Wijesinghe was awarded as the BEST YOUNG LEADER for the year 2015.

Global Village was organised on 11th of January with the participation of Exchange Participants from Winter projects at University premises. More than 60 interns were participated in the Global Village.

This GV was organized by the iGCDP contol board and this was the first timethat AIESEC Colombo South had a Global Village insiide the University. Organizers were able to attract more than 200 participants to come and visit the Global Village. It was filled with cultural sharing, jives, experience sharing and lots of fun.

GLOBAL VILLAGE

Dragon de Danza is an event to celebrate Chinese new year withChinese interns and local AIESECers. Event was was held on 31st January at Civil Auditorium of University of Moratuwa . This was filled with traditional songs,dances,games and foods.

DRAGON DE DANZA

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Intern Conference is an initiative by AIESEC Sri Lanka to enhance the internship experience of foreign interns who have come to Sri Lanka on AIESEC internships. iCon was successfully conducted by AIESEC Colombo South for the winter exchange participants of iGCDP projects. It was held on 21st February at Civil Auditorium, University of Moratuwa. The event was facilitated by the Panel of AIESEC Colombo South. All in all the event was a success based on the feedback which was given

There were two inductions held in the year of 2016 in AIESEC Colombo South. Induction for the Engineering Faculty was successfully held at Civil Auditorium on 31st of January with the participation of 160+ newbies. Poorna Molligoda (Member Committee Vice President, Talent Management for the term 2014/15) was the chairperson of the event.

Induction for the Information Technology Faculty was held on 04th June at the University of Moratuwa premises. 130+ newbies participated in this event. Akila Shan Udage (Local Committee Vice President Talent Management 2013/2014) was the chairperson of the event.

Both events were carried out successfully by delivering AIESEC knowledge to the newbies and encouraging them to stay with the organization.

iNDUCTION

AIESEC CS AWURUDU 2016 organized by AIESEC Colombo South was held on 30th of April at the Lagan Premises of University of Moratuwa. It was filled with traditional and new games, mouthwatering traditional sweetmeats. Winners of the games were awarded with gifts and more than 100 AIESEC members were participated with this event. It was a mesmerizing experience for every participant.

AIESEC CS AWURUDU

LC EXCELLENCE AWARDAIESEC Colombo South has been recognized as The Best Local Committee in Asia Pacific Region. The award was presented at the Asia Pacific Conference which was held at Shanghai, China. Two delegates from AIESEC Colombo South including the elected LocalCommittee President Kaushalya Batawala participated to this conference.

NATCON AWARDS

NatCon 2016 Organized by AIESEC Sri Lanka was successfully held on the 22nd,23rd and 24th of April 2016 at Centauria Tourist Hotel Embilipitiya. Around thirty delegates from AIESEC Colombo South were participated in the conference. In this conference AIESEC Colombo South won 4 out of 9 awards.

BI-ANNUAL EXCELENCE AWARD IGIP BI-ANNUAL EXCELENCE AWARD IGCDP BEST YOUNG LEADER - ISURU CHATHURANGA MOST CONTRIBUTING ALUMNI - POORNA MOLLIGODA

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