KATUBEDDA-MORATUWALions Club
Md 306-District A
Colombo Sri Lanka
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VISIT TO BRISBANE EKIBIN LIONS CLUB BY
LION NISHANTHA DANTANARAYANA
Lion Nishantha Dantanarayana, on a business visit to
Australia, took the opportunity of visiting the Lions Club of Brisbane Ekibin
in Queensland. on the 27th November 2003. At the club he was made
welcome and was pleasantly surprised to meet a fellow Sri Lankan - Lion Nihal
Goonetilleke, now a citizen of Australia.
Lion Nishantha met President Steve Liussi and Secretary Neil
Doherty and the rest of the members of Brisbane Ekibin and also addressed the
Dinner Meeting of the Ekibin Club, giving the Australian Lions an insight of the
working of a club in Sri Lanka. He invited the members of Ekibin, if in
Sri Lanka, to attend a meeting of the Katubedde-Moratuwa Lions. He
also suggested ways and means of co-operation between the two clubs in the
future.
(Photo shows Lion Nishantha addressing the members of the
Brisbane Ekibin Lions Club)
Meetings of the Club
Our meetings commence with the Pledge
of Allegiance to the Flag, the singing of the National Anthem and the recitation
of the Ethics and objects of Lionism. These are given below -
PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE TO THE NATIONAL FLAG
We salute the National Flag of Sri Lanka, which signifies the independence of our Country and stands for all its people, united as one Nation.
We
pledge allegiance to Sri Lanka and under take to work towards its peace and prosperity in a spirit of tolerance and love
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NATIONAL ANTHEM OF SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka Matha
Apa Sri Lanka
Namo namo namo namo Matha
Sundara siri barini surandi athi sobamana Lanka
Dhanya danaya neka mal palathuru piri jaya boomiya ramya
Apa hata sapa siri setha sadana jeewanaye Matha
Piliganumana apa bakthi pooja namo namo Matha
Apa Sri Lanka, Namo namo namo namo Matha
Oba ve apa vidya, obamaya apa sathya
Oba ve apa shakthi, apa hada thula bakthi
Oba apa aloke, apage anuprane
Oba apa jeevaya ve, apa mukthiya obave
Nava jeevana demine nithina apa pubudukaran Matha
Gnana veerya wadavamina regena yanu mena jaya boomikara
Eka mawakage daru kela bavina yamu yamu we nopama
Prema vada sama behda duralala namo namo Matha
Apa Sri Lanka, namo namo namo namo Matha.
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Lions International
Objects
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To Create
and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
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To Promote
the principle of good government and good citizenship.
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To Take
an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the
community.
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To Unite
the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual
understanding.
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To Provide
a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest;
provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not
be debated by club members.
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To Encourage
service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial
reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in
commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.
PROUDLY SRI LANKAN
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Lions Code of Ethics
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To Show
my faith in the
worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may
merit a reputation for quality of service.
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To Seek
success and to demand
all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or
success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair
advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
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To Remember
that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down
another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
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Whenever
a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards
others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
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To Hold
friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists
not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true
friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it
is given.
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Always
to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my
community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed.
To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
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To Aid
others by giving my
sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the
needy.
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To Be Careful with my
criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy
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