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| Sunday, 12 March 2006 |
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SLBDC helps tsunami hit entrepreneurs in Hambantota The Sri Lanka Business Development Centre, (SLBDC), a non stock, non profit, provider of business development services and consulting company, in collaboration with kirinda Trust of the United Kingdom and Women's Foundation of California in San Francisco, USA, provided financial assistance to re-start the livelihood enterprises of tsunami affected entrepreneurs in Kirinda and Tissamaharama in the Hambantota District, as a part of the SLBDC's ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility activity. With the recommendation of civil society organisations which were engaged in assisting tsunami affected families in the Hambantota district the SLBDC identified three areas for extending the assistance to tsunami affected entrepreneurs who were engaged in small scale fishing industry, individual deep sea divers (who were engaged in collecting conch/chank shells for sale as their main stream of income) and women seamstresses who are engaged in dress making for the local market. Care was also taken to ensure transparency and sufficient checks and balances in the process of selection of beneficiaries, cooperating very closely with government functionaries and the civil society organisations concerned. The process was community work in Kirinda and surrounding areas. |
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