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Community Engagement

SLYO – Where the Community Connects!

Serving our immediate communities is at the core of SLYO’s foundation. By involving our youth in community service projects, we instill essential values such as compassion, appreciation for diversity, and accountability. Armed with these qualities, they become respectful, altruistic citizens. Past events organized by our chapters in support of their communities have included the following:

  • Adopt a Family: sponsors underprivileged families
  • Operation Rise Above: backpack and school supply drive
  • Food drive: distributes food to the homeless
  • Toy Drive: distributes toys to children during the holiday season
  • Operation Hope: provided relief to Sri Lanka during its economic crisis
  • Built new libraries and computer labs in underprivileged Sri Lankan schools

These activities directly align with our mission of promoting philanthropy amongst our youth.

We care for COMMUNITY,
by emphasizing these four aspects!

Being Responsible

We are unwavering in our commitment to consistently supporting our communities in terms of what they lack, also in terms of what is possible. We believe it is our duty to promote a responsible community, while influencing them to take care of one another.

Being Compassionate

Compassion is at the heart of every little thing we do, and the small acts we do for our community will extend for miles around. Community is a beautiful place where we can teach compassion to one another. This is what we love!

Being a Humanitarian

We can all relate to the difficulty in times of crisis and unexpected situations. We understand what it feels to be helpless. This is why SLYO rallies together with our communities to help one another, and rise together to meet life’s toughest challenges!

Being Inclusive

We live in a diverse, beautiful world full of people that require a common understanding of one another despite our differences. Our communities play an important role in moulding the essence of understanding; more importantly, the activities we conduct are rooted in being inclusive of others.