MBA Students of Oxford College ... ‘Service above self’-interactors of Stafford International School
On the 7th March 2012 the Interact Club Of Stafford International School ( ICSIS) embarked on ‘ Health Camp 2012”,set in the remote village of Nammuwawa in Nikaweratiya. Yet a project forecast to be a simple service to the less fortunate turned out to be more phenomenal than any interactor expected.
The annual “Health Camp” has been a Community
Service initiative of ICSIS for four successive years. Pioneered by the club of 2008/2009, this project brings together hundreds of necessitous people each year enabling them to receive basic medical consultation, attention and treatment in the spirit of charity. The scale of the “Health Camp” has magnified each year and this year especially has been extremely successful in reaching out to those desperately in need of health- care.
Plans for the camp initiated in January as a group of dedicated interactors sought to take community service to unparal- leled heights. The budget of Rs.300000 on their heads meant that the interactors had to carry out many fundraiser projects during the upcoming months to the camp. The club extended its gratitude to the many generous sponsors, parents and donors for their selfless contribution to this notable cause. Nawaloka Hospitals PLC and Astron (Ltd) too came forward and donated large quantities of essential drugs that the patients in Nammuwawa greatly required. Thirty interactors, five pharmacists and twelve doctors from Colombo, Kurunegala and Peradeniya attended the camp on the 7th.