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With the crippling strike of the non-profession looming over the proper maintenance of hospitals, Professor W. R. Breckenridge, the Principal of Trinity College, Kandy and its Administrative Manager, Mohan Samarakoon, initiated a clean up with the staff of Trinity College and a hundred senior schoolboys who gave a thorough scrub down to the Kandy Hospital on Friday, September 19 states a Press release by the College, Social Service.

Trinity has had a long history of social service. The Social Service Union of the college was founded in 1910 under the patronage of Norman P. Campbell of the tutorial staff. Pursuing its objective of rendering practical social service, young Trinitians would hold classes in the Bogambara Prison, work tirelessly in the slums of Mahaiyawa and they even had a Medical Clinic on the periphery of the college premises where free medical service was given to the needy. In honour of the founder who was killed in action during World War II, the institute was named in 1918 as the Campbell Memorial Institute.

Apart from providing medical aid, the union would train a limited number of boys in general work at a night school run in its dispensary.

The Social Service Union was yet another pioneering arm of Trinity, which had earlier been the first Christian School in the country to introduce Buddhism to its curriculum. Other 'Firsts' include the teaching of Kandyan Dancing, agriculture and other vocational subjects like carpentry, printing and bookbinding.

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