This year, I joined my new service, Housing & Habitat. It is a student-driven community service organization which “aims to pursue sustainable development of rural Sri Lanka by engaging with the local community and directly building and constructing rooms and facilities for use by different underprivileged elements of Sri Lankan society or to indirectly spur social development by providing access to crucial resources like electricity, water or educational implements to empower the lives of Sri Lankans spread across this beautiful island. We actively collaborate with different organizations such as the Janoda Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and many others.  Our main objectives for this year is to organize our annual Home Run in collaboration with care for paws and the projected uplift.”

The Home Run is an annual 5 km marathon which will be taking place on the 15th of January. We will use this money in order to fund our project uplift, which we are working on since the beginning of the year. We are building chairs and table sets using up-cycled wooden pallets and transforming them into new furniture for the kids. This will be given to the Janoda foundation, who will provide them to the local schools that are in need. This semester, we have been working on making an introductory video about the Home Run and finding different places for sourcing the pallets that will be used for making the furniture. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been trying to recycle the wood that we used for some of the previous projects and cut them so they can be used later. Besides this, I am also learning  HTML from a friend, so I can make a website for our service group(LO1, LO2 & LO5).