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Suranjith is an old boy of Thurstan College, Colombo and he is an advisor to Junior Old Boys Union of his alma mater. He currently works as Coats Sri Lanka’s Sales and Marketing Manager Apparel, Specialty, Zips, Consumer and Craft. He holds a Post graduate Diploma in Marketing (SLIM) and is a Certified Professional Marketer (Asia Marketing Federation).
He has been working at Coats for last 20 years and took on various responsibilities from Laboratory Assistant to current job role. He is also an active executive member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) and contributed immensely to nurture the marketing profession in order to enhance the value of Sri Lankan marketers by leading several national projects being as Project Chairman to promote marketing for economic development of the country, such as SLIM Brand Excellence, SLIM NASCO, SLIM Peoples Awards and SLIM Gamata Marketing.
During his speech Rtn Suranjith commented: “As we all know, being a Rotarian is a commitment that goes far beyond just showing up at the meetings once a week. All of us joined Rotary to get involved and make a difference to each and every individual whom we come across through ‘Service Above Self’.
“As per the Rotary International theme for this year, we as Rotarians will put our effort to live with the discipline of ‘Engage Rotary, Change Lives’ in every way to strengthen this organisation in order to help mankind. I am sure that we can change lives by giving back to the society as much as possible. Thus making the ‘habit of giving’ instead of ‘habit of getting’ would definitely create a world where everybody can live in peace and harmony.’
He added: “Let each of us uphold the ideal of ‘Help ever, hurt never’ and contribute our bit to make the world order politically powerful, socially stable, economically efficient and spiritually strong.”
In addition to all these he managed to allocate time for humanitarian work with his involvement through Rotary. He was the Director – New Generations of the Rotary Club of Mount Lavinia and serves as the Rotary Advisor to the Interact Clubs of St. Thomas’ College - Mount Lavinia, Anula Vidyalaya – Nugegoda and Girls High School – Mount Lavinia. He is also the Rotary advisor to the Rotaract Clubs of Wellawatte and International Hotel School, Mount Lavinia.
Rotary International is a volunteer organisation of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotary club members belonging to 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
Founded in Chicago in 1905, Rotary celebrated 100 years of service in 2005. The Rotary Foundation has awarded more than $ 2.1 billion in grants, which are administered at the local level by Rotary Clubs.
