The Cluster: Habitat for Humanity

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ROTARACT CLUSTER PROJECT – 2017/18



Rotaract Club of Faculty of Law along with the Rotaract clubs of Colombo East, College of Chemical Science, Kandy, Male, Nallur, Negombo and Alumni of University of Moratuwa – namely the ‘Cluster 7’, successfully carried out its cluster project for the year 2017/18. The preliminary arrangements of the project started in the month of June 2017 and the project was implemented during January 2018.


Our project, namely ‘The Habitat for Humanity’ was an initiative to address the environmental concern by achieving certain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the year. The project was carried out in three phases, each addressing different SDGs and also each covering different aspects of the environment.

Under Phase one, we provided a water purification system to Pusiyankulama Vidyalaya in Anuradhapura as a part of eradicating chronic kidney disease prevalent in the area. This phase addressed SDGs such as ‘Clean water and sanitization’ and ‘Good health and wellbeing.’ Phase two of the project was an initiative for incentivizing of waste management. This phase included collection of several types of waste such plastic, polythene etc. and the management of such collected waste was handled by Abans (Pvt) Ltd.  Through this phase we were able to address SDGs such as ‘Responsible consumption and production’ and ‘good health and wellbeing.’ The third phase of the project focused on providing access to selected farmers in Anuradhapura to fruit exporters database of National Fruit Research on Development Institute. Through this phase of the project we were able to address SDGs such as life on land, decent work and economic growth and industry, innovation and infrastructure.


The main objective of our project ‘Habitat for humanity’ is not only to provide benefits to the selected communities but also to create awareness among people to come forward and be informed and concerned about the environment that we live in.








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