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Women and
Rotary
History Introduced to Sri Lanka in 1965 by Mrs. Gerty Billimoria
and Mrs. Jer Nilgiriya, the Inner Wheel Club of Colombo was formed. |
The pioneer Club received it’s Charter on 1st February 1966 and the ceremony was held at Hotel Taprobane. Amongst the speakers for the event were Mr. Jabir A Cader, Mayor of Colombo and Rtn. D. B. Ellepola, President, Rotary Club of Colombo. We initially belonged to District 320 and 321 which included Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India. In 1985, Sri Lanka bifurcated and thus District 322 was formed with Mrs. Nirmalie Gunatilleke as the first leader of our District. As at today we have 18 Clubs with a membership of 404. In the years 1997/8, 2002/3 and 2005/6, Mrs Nirmalie Gunatilleke, Mrs Chandrani Gunawardene and Mrs Renuka Amalean were elected as Board Directors of International Inner Wheel respectively. In addition Mrs. Nirmalie Gunatilleke was one of the first recipients of the Margaret Golding Award bestowed by International Inner Wheel and was followed by late Mrs. Annie Samaranayake Districts |
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All 18 clubs in Sri Lanka are under the administration of
District 322. Clubs | As recorded above, the Inner Wheel Club of Colombo, under the guidance of the Rotary Club of Colombo was the first club in the country, receiving its charter on 1 February 1966. 
Mrs. Aubrey
Hitching, Immediate Past President of the Association handing
over Charter to Mrs. D.P. Billimoria upon the formation of Inner
Wheel Club of Colombo.
Charter
Members of Inner Wheel Club of Colombo at the Bolgoda Lodge.Some of the notable projects completed are the financial contribution to the Mammography fund of the National Hospital, helping the Mother Theresa Home in Moratuwa, refurbishing of the Kalutara Maternity Ward, Scholarships to 75 poverty stricken children and cash donations to Children’s Heart Project and also the Neurosurgical Unit of the Colombo National Hospital. In addition several medical camps and seminars to educate and create awareness of health and other appropriate issues have been conducted. Refurbishing of Welcome House and The Deaf and Blind School, Ratmalana, construction of Community Center at Muthuragawella and building of a Urology Unit in the Kurunagala General Hospital, are other community service projects successfully completed. More recently the District donated a costly 'surgical drill' to the Department of Neurosurgery of the Colombo National Hospital. In addition a Perkins Braille Machine and Braille stationery was donated to Dharisanam School for the Visually Handicapped, situated in Kalladi-Uppodai, Batticaloa as well as funding the cost of transcribing four text books into Braille by visually handicapped women to mark International Womens Day on 8th March. The textbooks are to be used by visually handicapped undergratuates of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
acknowledgements to the webmaster and
committees of Inner Wheel Sri Lanka |
researched and posted by RGHF Webmaster Greg Barlow, Malaysia. July 2011.
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