Sri Lanka wins Top Rotary Award in South Asia
View(s):Rotary, the only service organisation which has a nonvoting seat at the UN General Assembly with over 1.2 million members staged the Annual Regional performance awards for the year 2018/19 in Indor, India last week with the attendance of International Rotary President Mark Daniel Maloney and the top 500 key leadership of Rotary, Rotaract and Interact officials of South Asia. Sri Lanka’s Rotary Governor for the year 2018/19 Dushan Soza was awarded the top award for ‘ Rotary Image Building’.
Rotary District Governor 2018/19 Dushan Soza
The year under review was a signature year for Rotary in Sri Lanka/Maldives under the dynamic leadership of Dushan Soza, where the organisation was managed like a corporate entity as per the stipulation of Rotary International. In the year 2018/19, for the first time all projects were monitored on a Balance Score Card perspective, totally online where it was revealed that an average Rotarian spends 11% of their time daily for Rotary projects.
Governor 2018/19 Dushan Soza said: “It was an amazing year where Rotary as a team drive innovation products with media exposure crossing over Rs. 70 million. This includes the ten thousand Retractors and Interactors in Sri Lanka who are serving humanity whilst studying and working. The Key KPI being that new membership crossing four hundred in Rotary that made the year unique in the 90-year-old history of Rotary in Sri Lanka. I must acknowledge the leadership that our public image Chairman Dr. Rohantha Athukorala and his team that made Rotary a top of mind brand in the community in my year. It’s real professionalism in action.”
Incidentally this was the second time that Sri Lanka was awarded the converted award. In the year 2014/15 too, Sri Lanka win the ‘ Best Image Building’ in the South Asian Zonal awards under the Governorship of Gowri Rajan. Incidentally, that year too the PR Chairman for Sri Lanka was Rohantha Athukorala. On both years Athukorala went on to be awarded the ‘ Exceptional Rotarian’ award for Sri Lanka said Dushan Soza.
Rotary in the year 2018/19 initiated and partnered the Government of Sri Lanka on some land mark projects – the innovative Dengue eradication new product ‘Ovi Trap’ which is at test market stage in Grandpass area, the flagship Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Project, the novel English teaching product – MasterSpeller, the one million tree planting project partnering UN Global Compact agricultural company – HALEYS Plantations apart from the many initiatives on Tourism revival post the Easter Attack on Sri Lanka.
This included global initiatives and a programme that fully automated the tracking of each of the seventy odd Rotary Clubs across the country.
The Head of PR for Sri Lanka Dr Rohantha Athukorala with District Governor 2018/19 Dushan Soza and Past International Rotary President K Ravindran