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Monday, November 5, 2007

Success stories : Urban experiences: Weerasiri Café : Kottawa -Sri Lanka




Mr Wickum Weerakkody is a prominent businessman in Kottawa, an urban city located about 10Km from Colombo city limits down Highlevel Road.

He is running his very successful family business which he inherits from his father - "The Weerasiri Cafe". Begin the fully vegetarian hotel at Kottawa, Mr Weerakkody is hitting a very high daily margin, which he serves for so many customers daily .

The premises is located in a very prominent and strategic location in the middle of the town, intern , it is surrounded by so many other businesses as well as pathways to the general public.
Day by day, when the business was growing, Mr Weerakkody had to face an unexpected situation. The business has been disposing large quantities of waste water, combined with cooked food/uncooked waste which created an environmental issue. The situation went so serious as some of the concern neighbours along with the concerned environmental groups went to courts against Mr Weerakkody over his garbage disposal procedures.
There were no escape for Mr Weerakkody, as he too was a prominent member in the same community who had to collaborate with the same neighbours.
The only solution had been to go for a long lasting solution of garbage management system.
Even after trying various methods, Mr Weerakkody finally seek help from a senior Environmental research Engineer.
He is non other than Engineer Mr Athula Jayamanne. Today Mr Weerakkody runs his "Weerasiri Cafe" very peacefully, thanks to Mr Jayamanne's introduction of advance waste water treatment method.

Mr Jayamanne had provided his consultancy to Mr Weerakkody to build his own Bio Gas unit in his premises, while managing his own garbage and waste water. Today Mr Weerakkody uses bio gas in his hotel's kitchen as an alternative energy source to LP Gas.
According to him, "the Bio Gas cooker functions very well, giving a maximum output, which had already recovered the ROI", Mr Wickum Weerakkody concluded his success story.

Our GO GREEN team recently visited Mr Weerakkody’s premises, what we saw was an exemplary saga which is worth to share with all around the world.
We are publishing this as an appreciation of Mr Weerakkody’s silent contribution to the society , we could found out that he is the Kottawa city’s Lions’ Club president as well.
Yet humble man he is, Mr Weerakkody spared more than 3 hours with our team, explaining each step of his Bio Gas setting up project, from his busy schedule.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dear Kumudini,

Its wonderful. Thanx to all for the dedication.