‘Soyuru Lanka 2012’ inspires and empowers youth

For the past three decades amidst terrorism, in most areas of the country, education and freedom of the youth was just another fruitless topic. But the story is now different and the necessity in blossoming up the youth community for the betterment of themselves and the country had been emerged.

The Rotaract Club of University of Moratuwa being the pioneer among the University based Rotaract Clubs envisioned the immense need of supporting these youth communities to make their future dreams come true. Hence, ‘Soyuru Lanka 2012 – The Inspiring Youth Community’ was created for the youth in Sri Lanka who had to struggle a lot in their lives to achieve their goals.

‘Soyuru Lanka’ will inspire and motivate the hearts and the minds of the talented yet victimised youth in Sri Lanka. The project will be carried in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Colombo West.

The focus of ‘Soyuru Lanka’ is in selecting a youth community with skills, talents and immense potential and providing them with educational and proper moral guidance through leadership training, vocational training and internship programs. The selected students will be enrolled for the training and internship programs according to the interest of their field of study, in order to enhance their professionalism and to make them educated to safeguard their carrier opportunities in the future.

The objective behind the leadership programs, mentoring sessions and the other workshops is to build up their self confidence and to improve their personality by motivation and guide them to stand by the community they are live-in.  

The initial phase of ‘Soyuru Lanka 2012’ will be deployed in the district of Trincomalee, forming the ‘Inspiring Youth Community’ of Trincomalee. And the journey would continue, with Inspiring youth Communities being formed in many districts all over the country. The youth in these communities in turn will render service and support to the next generation of youth in their community, guiding the next generation for a better future with fellowship and brotherhood as we guide them now.

Embracing this novel concept of ‘Inspiring Youth Community,’ the website for ‘Soyuru Lanka 2012’, http://www.iycsl.org was officially launched on 9 March at Royal College Union Skills Centre. The event was graced by the District Rotaract Committee Chairman Rtn. PHF. Yohan Kumarapperuma, District Rotaract Representative Rtr. PP. Subramaniam Sudhakaran, Incoming President of Rotary Club of Colombo West Rtn. Sebastian Karunakaran, Incoming Advisor of Rotary Club of Colombo West Rtn. Brian Selvanatagam, The Staff Advisor of the Rotaract Club of University of Moratuwa Dr. Ranga Rodrigo and fellow rotaractors.

Now, the workforce of ‘Soyuru Lanka’ is active and the publicity and awareness programs are already deployed with success being evident. The team visited the district of Trincomalee over the weekend and addressed the young adults in the district with the aid of Rotary Club of Trincomalee and Sarvodaya-Trincomalee. It is with immense pride that we say that a lot of youth wanted were very much interested and were willing to apply for the program.

The Applications are to be entertained in the coming weeks and the applications will be available at our official website, http://www.iycsl.org, Sarvodaya at Trincomalee, Rotary Club of Trincomalee and Headway School of Languages – Trincomalee. The closing date for the applications is 31 March. The Educational, Professional Institutes and the Vocational Training Institutes are welcome to support us in providing educational/carrier opportunities. The Corporate partnerships and the individual donations are also expected for the financial assistance.