District women federation meeting

Conducted Women district comity meeting at Galle on 29 of June.26 women leaders participated in nine villages.
We educated on NAFSO women program which is conducting in North and East.In the same time share the great women life stories. We discussed on life of Wangarri Matha. Then they identify the main problems in these areas. 
01.Drugs.
02.Getting marriage under age.
03.Economic problems. 
04.Increase of shcool drops out.
Finally they decided  to conduct education program in each village with in next month

President of women federation speak out on their issues  

Lavina Hasanthi expain the women program caption

Give our land as promised

'Civil organisation for Sampur development' meeting was conducted at Kilivetti camp in Sampur. 30 leaders of the four camps participated for this meeting. They have formed common civil society organisation for campaign and getting back their land.
Finally they decided
01.To develop the letter head,Banner and Rabber seal.
02.To collect the up date information with Map.
03.To develop communication macunizam for each camps.
04.To develop leaflet for the election campaign.
05.Discuss with DS office to get the register for the organisation
06.To develop and finalise the constitution for the organisation. 

They got the responsibilities to finish these work with in 03 week.

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leadership training

Leadership program was conducted in cooperative hall in 25 of June at Trincomalee. Citizen forum 24 leaders participated that program. Identified the role of citizens and which kind of leader should be . 

Exposure visit

we had discussion with Sri vimukthi fisher women group leaders of Kadalkelai -Negombo on 20 th of June .Fyfe from Australia joint for this discussion to get the experience of their livelihood and influence.

 

Citizen forum

Citizen forum was conducted on 21 of June at Palugassegama community hall .
19 members participated and no one come from the Neelabamma
Focus of the day

-Review the last month activities 
-Discussion on village development plan
-Awareness on citizen forum process and develop strategies.
-Future actions
out come
-Prepared village development plan in Galawewa,Werapura and Ranawarapitiya but not Neelabamma and Palugassegama.
-They could develop the model for the VDP with content of the data ,Issues,Suggestions and capacity training and so on .
-Decided to conduct the women seminar in 07 of July with 150 women[Main topic of the seminar -Women rights ,Responsibilities and right of the citizen.
-Decided rebuild the Palusasagama and Neelabamma .Jayawathi and 03 leaders got the responsibility.
Decided to finalize the VDP According to the accepted model.
-Next meeting will be 12 th of July.

Let's fight together to stop the port city project.

Fisher people of Negombo,Civil society  organizations conducted signature campaign on 20 th of June against port city .They started signature campaign form Negombo to Usatakeiyawa .

Bring cultural as human rights

What is the importance of Cultural Policy for build a cultural citizen: Speaks Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardene The people's cultural forum sat with Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardene on 14 of June at NAFSO to discuss about the Cultural policy which was drafted and submitted to President.
The team discussed about the importance of to build a cultural citizen as the present crisis is an issue of the devastation of the civilization. 
Dr. Sunil raised the importance of the necessity of the discussion of Economic, Social and Cultural rights as this can be an important bring cultural as human rights in present discourse.

At the same time the dialogue was focus the difficulty and necessity to building the bridge between north and south through culture. The trust building is difficult in other sections of the society though Culture has more potential to building bridge between north and south.
The group agreed to take this message forward and educate the wider group among the civil organizations and communities.