A truly heart warming effort was made by the employees of MillenniumIT, who raised
Rs. 345,000 to purchase much needed items, including mattresses, cooking pans, coconut scrapers and bedside lockers for the Maharagama Cancer Hospital.
The donation was made on the 12th of January 2008 and our volunteers had an eventful day, distributing gifts to each of the 870 patients.
The organising committee was headed by Sajith Premadasa, Radhika Wijegunawardena and Sampath Ranawaka.
Millennium All-Island Robot Competition (MARC) was organised on the 1st of November 2006,to commemorate MillenniumIT’s 10th anniversary. The main objective of this competition was to promote an IT culture among schools and professionals of all disciplines.
MARC involved programming a virtual robot, to traverse a stimulated environment, pick up packages and safely return to its starting position before the stipulated time ran out. The event was aimed at determining the participants’ programming skills in working their way around complex situations.
The competition was conducted under two age categories: Under 19 and Open. Interestingly, MARC didn’t impose any restrictions for entry, based on the participants’ educational qualifications or occupation. Anyone with a knack for programming could participate. The competitors used many of the popular programming languages to code the robot (C, C++, VB, Java, .NET).
Over 500 entries were received. Batch runs of the participants programs were conducted every week in order to create a competitive atmosphere among the contenders and also to give them an opportunity to determine their chances of winning the competition. The finals took place at the MillenniumIT auditorium.
The competition had the approval of the Ministry of Education and was endorsed by the Information and Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)
The employees of MillenniumIT, raised approximately Rs. 200,000 to purchase clothes and dry rations for the internally displaced people in the Vedarkudieruppu refugee camp in Vakarai, Batticaloa. These items were handed over to the President of the Rotary Club of Colombo East by the Chief Operating Officer of MillenniumIT, Dr. Anush Amarasinghe.
The camp contained hundreds of people who were displaced due to the recently concluded civil war in the Vakarai area. They faced numerous difficulties, amongst them being the shortage of clothes and dry rations.
The staff of MillenniumIT, wanting to share a bit of the New Year happiness with them, initiated fund raising activities for this project and were able to hand over a substantial stock of new clothes and dry rations to the Red Cross Society of Batticaloa via the Rotary Club.
MillenniumIT has taken the initiative to build a village for Tsunami Survivors in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The Village will help resettle ten families who lost their homes and belongings in the disaster.
As a further step in helping Tsunami survivors rebuild their lives, MillenniumIT will look into the welfare of families settled in the village.
The construction of ten houses with road access facilities is estimated to cost approximately SLR 7.5 Million.
The Village
The site is located within the city limits of Kalutara town in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The number of displaced persons in Kalutara alone was reported to exceed 12,000.
Designed as per Urban Development Authority (UDA) approved plans, each house will comprise of two bedrooms, a living room, washroom/toilet, kitchen and two verandahs. The houses will be provided with basic electrical fittings, plumbing and toilet fittings, as well. The floor area of each house will be 550 sq. ft.
Construction
Construction commenced during the last week of October 2006 and was undertaken by a reputed local contractor, on a measure-and-pay basis. We also hired a qualified Quantity Surveyor to supervise construction and ensure that the houses were built according to the originally approved Bill of Quantities.
Handing over Ceremony
Our CEO, Tony Weerasinghe handed over the keys to the completed houses, to the recipients on the 21st of March 2007. MillenniumIT employees and local government officials of the Kalutara District, also participated.
