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| Sunday, 13 July 2003 |
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Norway Foundation selects Sri Lankan youth The Norwegian Operation Day's Work (ODW), a campaign which supports educational projects in the developing countries has selected Sri Lankan children and youth as their recipients for this year. Every year for the last 40 years, lasting nine days in October most Norwegian school students from 13 to 19 years old involve in different kinds of information activities that provide them with a knowledge on developing countries. On the ninth, the last day of the program about 120,000 students from about 850 schools do different kind of odd jobs and the money they earn goes to support the education of the less privileged youth in developing countries. The students decide every year by a referendum and vote at the annual national congress of the School students' Union of Norway, which project the money is going to support and which Norwegian NGO should be in charge of the project. This year the Norwegian NGO will be the Development fund which has been in Sri Lanka for nearly 20 years, mainly in Kegalle district and the Uva province. The project will commence in 2004 and continue for five years. Each year the campaign raises about 4 million USD. ODW and the Development Fund which strongly support the peace process in Sri Lanka are working in co-operation with national and local NGO's in the country. The main partners in Sri Lanka will be `Future in Our Hands', Centre for Human Development, Open University and Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement. The target group for the projects in Sri Lanka will mainly be school drop-outs. The main goal is to give them an opportunity to vocational training in sustainable farming and different skills. Peacebuilding and reconciliation will be an important and integrated part of the projects which will reach Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim teenagers. Most of the projects will be implemented in north-east, north central and Uva where school dropout rate is the highest. The school for organic farming is in Kurunegala. |
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