HEALTH & WELLNESS DAY

The project has been completed. Given that it was a holiday, we weren't really sure if the kids should go. However, the majority of pupils go to the program. All of the scheduled events went off without a hitch. Teachers at the schools gave us some extremely kind and motivating feedback. The schoolchildren's participation was also excellent. To do this kind of outreach program, especially among schoolchildren, was quite fresh and interesting. After spending 16 weeks planning and carrying out the project, we felt incredibly content and proud of ourselves. 

  The execution plan underwent final revisions. The final date was negotiated with the school's principal and agreed upon. The resource personnel were notified of the date, and we received their confirmation. Additionally, we presented the final proposal to two resource people. We divided up the conducting and poster-presenting tasks among the group members, and we each worked on our own project preparation. One of the members printed the posters, while another verified that there were refreshments available. The day of the execution that we had confirmed was abruptly declared a holiday hours before it was to take place. However, after talking to the principle, we agreed to hold the program on the scheduled date.

  Originally the project execution was planned in 13th week. But considering the situation in the country we have to postpone the project.  There were many meetings between group members and course coordinator.  Finally we decided to execute the final project on 16th week of the semester  since we got an semester extension.We decided to provide transportation by ourselves rather than depending on the university vehicle because situation is really unpredictable. We were really worried whether we will be able to held the project and be successful under this kind of limitations. Also school holidays were announcing unpredictably so we have consider that matter also.

  This week was spent finishing up the execution's preparations. Despite the fact that we were unsure of our exact start date because of the gasoline issue. The project's implementation was significantly hampered by transportation. We planned milk packets as the schoolchildren's refreshments. Yogurt or fruit are good alternatives to milk given the rising expense of milk. Dr. Harshi requested us to come up with an original idea for the seminar session, and the group members also discussed their ideas.

  We discussed with two resource persons and collect their ideas about the project.  The date was not yet confirmed due to the situation in the country. Group created a clear and well described plan for the execution day. The plan was adjusted according to the comments and suggestions given by Dr. Thushanthi. 

  We gathered posters from volunteers. All the posters were in good quality so we shared them with Dr. Thushanthi to select best three posters.  We also confirmed Dr Harshi Gunawardhana as the resource person for the seminar. Since Mr Sampath is not available for the project through him  we contact Ms. K.A.C. Chathurangani as physical activity resource person.  

  An earlier group decision was to hold a poster competition among classmates to gather posters. In the end, we decided to scrap the competition and simply take the posters from them. We announced the goal of collecting posters during the ninth week. Batchmates and volunteers who were working on the posters were provided guidelines and concluded subtopics.

We called a physical educator as our initial resource. Through one of our former students, Miss Upuli, we attempted to contact a qualified instructor (Sports Nutritionist). But after getting in touch with her, we learned that the instructor's fee would be exorbitant and that we would also need to supply transportation. The committee determined that the instructor should be changed because the budget allotted is so small. Then, during a field visit, we ran with Physical Instructor Mr. Sampath from the Kuliyapitiya premises. He was approached by Shanuka, and he agreed to conduct the session without charge. He assured us that the program will be run by him or another instructor.

  After confirming the school we developed a plan for the Health and Wellness Day. There are major four programs in the project, Physical Activity Session Seminar Session about nutrition Poster Presentations Project evaluation session The plan was shared with course coordinator Dr. Thushanthi to get the approval and comments. For the project, we require two resource people—one for the physical activity session and the other for the seminar session. For the seminar session and the physical activity session, we made the decision to get in touch with our faculty academic staff members.

  In this week we consider the schools near to the university premises. We found a personal contact to one school through one of our undergraduate. We contacted Principal from Daraluwa Secondary School, Pannala. Our group leader Shanuka Dilshan talked with the Principal of the school. Principal madam gave us permission to conduct the school program.

There was a first progress meeting. Dr. Thushanthi provided us with feedback and remarks on the project. We had a general notion of the program before the meeting. No one in our organization has ever participated in outreach projects of this nature. Following the conference, we gained a general understanding of how the project must be carried out. We came to the conclusion that the project needed a precise, well-developed plan to succeed.

  We discussed in the and decide how to create our progress group meeting presentation.

  On February 28th to March 6th, 2022 As we discussed in the WhatsApp group, we prepared a logo and proposed a tagline for further development of the program. Also, during this week we conducted a zoom meeting to plan the activities that we are going to conduct on that day such as Games, Seminars, etc.

    On February 21st to 27th, 2022 In this week we decided to first brainstorm the ideas about the health and wellness day. All the team members googled and searched for ideas about the project then we shared them in our WhatsApp group. Also, we decided to create names for promoting the day and shared all the different names in the group. On the 22nd of February, we held our first zoom meeting to discuss the project. We decided on the targeted community and what type of program will be more effective. In the meeting, we discussed the SWOT analysis component according to the project decided. Since the meeting was only for 40 minutes time limit we decided to put our extra ideas about SWOT analysis in the group. 

On February 14th  to 20th, 2022 It was the first day of our new semester . In week 01 first zoom session for the course module was held. course aims and learning objectives was introduced. Teams were assigned and projects for each groups were given. The project given us was conducting a "Health and Wellness Day" After the virtual meeting we created a WhatsApp group to discuss and share the ideas among team members We selected a team leader for leading the team.