It has been a year and a half since I joined OSC, at the start of the Diploma Programme. Sri Lanka to me was a brand new place, and I wasn’t eager to come here. Now when I look back at the time that I spent here, it has been the best two years of…
Category: Service
CAS project – Making a website for Housing and Habitat
Over the past couple of months, I had thought of some ideas that I could do for my CAS project. I wanted to do something that I had not done before and wanted to learn something new. I asked one of my friends for some suggestions, and he suggested that I make a website for…
Home Run 2020
On the 15th of January, we organized and conducted our annual Home Run for this year (LO#3). It was something I was looking forward to it because not only was it my first time organizing it, but it is also a great opportunity for everyone to come together for a good cause(LO#2). The entrance fee…
Semester reflection: Housing and Habitat
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…
OSC Room to Read Semester 2 Reflection
I feel like this semester was more fun than the last one because we were done with the planning for our projects and were ready to take action. Even though we were not able to go to the Vidya Wardeyna school and finish the library because of the unfortunate incident that took place in April,…
OSC’s Room to Read – Semester Report (pictures coming soon)
OSC’s Room to Read is a service that promotes the love of reading by helping maintain and improve the libraries of schools in the local communities. We have almost finished our first semester, and we have made some progress since we started. Even though I was not here last year, our service completed the primary…
Home Run
The Home Run is an annual 5 km marathon which was on the 17th of November this year. The main goal of the run was to raise awareness about the stray animals in Sri Lanka. The event was set up by Housing and Habitat in collaboration with Care for Paws which is a nonprofit organization…