Well a blogpost after two years of silence. It does not mean that I stopped working. After the pandemic I accelerated my work in Sri Lanka and started travelling for work. Anyway since it's Environmental month I wanted to share this story. A true story of my own. Hope you will like it!Living with my own plastic waste in New ...
Month of April – Experienced the Covid-19, feeling was “facing as it is” Month of May – recovered and waiting to go to Sri Lanka, but no luck as Sri Lanka closed entry gates for us even as Sri Lankans living in India. Feeling was Disappointed, sad but what to do? as there is nothing we could do! Month ...
Many of our friends, members and supporters got to know that we too got infected by Covid-19. An article written by me in Sinhala medium went bit viral in Sri Lank via social media and electronic newspapers, and many people got to know about our story through that. The best part of it is, many of our friends got ...
ECO-V is 20 years!! Can you all believe it? We started ECO-V on the 7th of February 2001. It was a very small meeting with my university friends; Sujani, Lal, Harsha and some of Thushara’s friends and my family members. We launched it officially as a new organization and then started working as a team. The first office was ...
Waste is one of the main topics in the world! As an organization campaigning for sustainable Resource management and zero waste lifestyle for last 20 years, I wrote this article few years ago and modified again very recently with more details. Hope one can learn something out of this. I heard about 10R in waste Management when I was in ...
It’s been almost a year since I did my last training session inside a room with an audience which had a physical presence. It was February 2020 and I was running really great training sessions in Myanmar and in Sri Lanka. Since then, I could not run such programmes till today. I really miss such and I know all my ...
After being inside for 7 months without traveling, we just came back from a 4-day trip to Rajasthan. It was a great trip with a 17-hour straight drive from New Delhi to Jaisalmer and spending some time around Thar Desert and understanding the history there. Here are some interesting places we traveled and what we saw. I decided to share ...
Well after 6 months of lock down due to Covid-19 and after a long break of writing, I thought I should write something now. Honestly there is no such lock-down now in New Delhi, where I live and we all are getting used to the “new normal”. No Cinemas, no metros. no commercial flights so no air travelling and no ...
Well, there are no two words that we all are facing the negative impacts of Climate Change, all are suffering either with floods, droughts or bush fires and from many more natural disasters. This suffering is either truly and physically experiencing by them or just seeing and feeling the pain of other who are actually facing the impacts. However, my ...
Making eco friendly Greeting cards, book marks, and gift tags as fund raising items was one of main activities at the time we started ECO-V in 2001. I very much enjoyed this and tried training youngsters on this but no body was interested. It was my main activity after working hours, till 1 am -2am after putting Boo and Nipu ...
Good Market, Sri Lanka is a great platform which supports new entrepreneurs who have sustainable and environmentally friendly products and service, for the public. Since 2013, ECO-V is working with Good Market as an educational partner as it is a place where enhance eco-friendly attitudes among the public. In addition to creating awareness, we are promoting natural alternatives for single ...
It’s June 2019. Already 6 months are gone in 2019. I can’t believe that I have not written a blog for last 6 months. It’s terrible guilty feeling I get as I know there are friends who are not connected via face book so not have got any updated about ECO-V or what’s happening around my personal life. The ...
After 11 months of settling me down in New Delhi, India I am so happy to introduce ECO-V’s “Nature Kids” programme to kids and parents in India too. When we started Nature kids in Sri Lanka in 2013, it was with only 4 kids including my own two boys. There after on every Thursdays we went to Good Market (https://www.facebook.com/goodmarket.global/) ...
The month of June was so busy, tired but was very productive. It was the month that many people in the world talk about Mother Nature. For us at ECO-V last June was important just because of environmental month but also we completed our 7th Yathra. Today I feel very proud and happy. The second generational leadership of ECO-V has ...
Our 7th Yathra which is named as Vanni Yathra is on its way. Today is it’s 8th day and 2 more days to go. I could not update you all as internet connection is very slow in the remote areas of journey route so I did not get pictures on time. The name for this yathra is just because ...
Newton This is Isaiyalan Newton - we got to know in August 2011. Since then he became "Our Newton". He was involved with LTTE Tamil tigers so many year during the war we had in Sri Lanka. He was appointed to join with us in our first ever journey – Kelani Nadee yathra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcefmB9OkI) when he was under rehabilitation process. ...
Four months of the year 2018 are already gone….I feel bad for not writing a fresh blog for whole 2018. when I look back it’s being an amazing beginning ….with so many changes and new adjustments. It is a turning point in my life as well as at ECO-V. We as a family shifted to New Delhi, India. So ...
When it’s a child’s birthday all parents and the child want to have a beautiful birthday party. With lots of kid’s favorite food, games, friends and gifts etc… They think about the best venue, make the booking, send the invitation, order food and then the big day comes. What you have to do is go and enjoy the party. Most ...
We were invited to conduct an environmental programme for some kids as a part of a lesson at their elocution class. Therefore our team leader Ms. Kanchana suggested to have it at this beautiful place at Dilmah Conservation (https://www.dilmahconservation.org/arboretum/), where kids will get the opportunity to stay very close to natural environment and gain a memorable experience. We all at ...
As a result of awareness program we held on Divisional Secretariat of Pitabeddara on 22nd of August, they planned to conduct several programs for the community and they specially aimed at school children. They all agreed that it’s easy to bring positive attitudinal changes among children rather than among adults. So again we were invited to Southern Province to continue ...
