WORLD CANCER DAYWorld cancer day will be Held on 4th FebruaryCancer is a leading cause of death around the world, according to WHO, which estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. Low-income and medium-income countries are harder hit by cancer than the high-resource countries. It is essential to address the world's growing ...

Sri Lanka's Independence Day is celebrated on 4th of February , in accordance with Lipass/Joshua Louis Law to commemorate its internal political independence from British rule on that day in 1948. The day is a national holiday in Sri Lanka. It is celebrated all over the country through flag-hoisting ceremony, dances, parades and performances. Usually, the main celebration takes place ...

“Diabetes education and prevention.”World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes mellitus world and is held on November 14 of each year. It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to the alarming rise of diabetes around the world. World Diabetes Day is a campaign that features ...

Interact club is a service club for youth ages 12 to 18 and is part of Rotary International, the world’s first service club organization. The parent international organization consists of over 30,000 clubs around the world and boasts more than million business and professional leaders as members. Individual Rotary clubs sponsor the youth component, Interact clubs, by providing guidance ...

“vegetarians reported significantly less negative emotion than omnivores.”World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated on 1 November, by vegans around the world. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, the President & Chair of The Vegan Society UK. 2012 marks the 68th anniversary of the term 'vegan'. Veganism is a great alternative to eating meat, which we ...

Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday "All Saints' Day", but is today largely a secular celebration. There are various symbols associated with Halloween. These include the spooks, ghosts and walking skeletons that represent the contact between the spiritual and physical world and between the ...

October 24 is a day that will come and go without notice to most people in the world. You will not see thousands of people wearing pink. You will not see the ribbons on peoples clothing. You will not see hundreds of races dedicated to raising money or awareness. But October 24 is a very special day. This day is ...

International understanding is very vital for the growth and the well being of a Rotaract club as from each piece of detail we could add something to our lives or help someone in need."Today in world", Our latest international understanding project is hosted from October 1st to widen the knowledge of many through a variety of aspects.In this project we ...

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. It was officially recognized by the United Nations,but the first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000 people gathered on the Human Rights and Liberties Plaza at the Trocadéro to honour victims of poverty, hunger, ...

16th October has been declared as World Food Day which is observed in remembrance of launching of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. It is also the Food Engineer day.The World Food Day theme for 2012 is "Agricultural cooperatives – key to feeding the world".The official World Food Day theme, announced each spring by the ...

Today marked as World White cane day, Global Hand-washing day and International day of Rural Woman.International day of Rural Woman."Empowering rural women is crucial for ending hunger and poverty. By denying women rights and opportunities, we deny their children and societies a better future. This is why the United Nations recently launched a programme to empower rural women and enhance ...

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards.The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers ...

"World Working Together to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness"World Sight Day is a global event that focuses on bringing attention on blindness and vision impairment. It is observed on the second Thursday of October each year.World Sight Day is observed around the world by all partners involved in preventing visual impairment or restoring sight. It is also the main advocacy event ...

Today is the "World Post Day".World Post Day, which falls on 9 October, in every year celebrates the Anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. World Post Day was declared by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo in 1969.Since then, countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations organized ...

It is our day, Children's day !It is said that the greatest need of a person in life is the feeling of ‘being wanted’ and ‘being noticed’. The thirst for wontedness is an unquenchable thirst, found in every human being. It is particularly true in the case of children. They long to be wanted, shown affection and appreciated. So ...

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are shared and delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn" When u read this quote above its apparent that Donating a book once read is the best source to exchange knowledge. "Read it share it" is our long ...

"Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind."Another community service project organized and hosted by the Rotaract club of Kuliyapitiya is the "Meditation Book Donation program". As we received about 200 meditation books related to a special way of meditation taught in Buddhism called "Kaye Kathawa" by our own Mrs. Dammika Herath, the beloved mother ...

Out initial professional development project for the month was a "badminton tournament' scheduled to be held on the 19th of August hosted with the utmost guidance of our project chairperson Rtr. Isurujith Amarasinghe. As planned we all gathered at the discussed venue which was the 'Shilpa Shalika" indoor badminton stadium on the 19th of August 2012 and along with the ...