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CORD SriLanka
P.O Box 25383
Chicago, IL 60625
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| About CORD Sri Lanka |
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CORD
Sri Lanka is the service wing of Chinmaya Mission Sri Lanka and was
established in 2005 in the aftermath of the Tsunami disaster on
December 2004. It is a non-government, non-profit organization and
registered as a charity in Srilanka and is part of a larger network of
CORD projects worldwide. CORD Sri Lanka expanded its activities to
include long term relief efforts in the North East as well, working at
grass root levels towards the development and empowerment of women and
children.
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Welcome to CORD Sri Lanka!
CORD
Sri Lanka is once again re- focusing its relief efforts, with the
changing conditions of the North and the East. CORD is currently
assisting IDP children who have been released from the camps and are
back to school in Jaffna. We are also identifying IDP families to
provide them with long term help in settling back into their
former lives. With the generous support of donors across the globe
we were able to help the IDP's in the interim camps; now we
are looking for your continued support to help with long term
relief. In addition our Microfinance initiative and
youth education programmes in the North and East continue to improve
the lives of women and children.
Please help us help those in Need!!
Volunteers
Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development (CORD) Sri Lanka
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Sponsor a Child Today
Due
to numerous requests from our generous donors and the
desperate need following the immense hardship the children of the
North and East of Srilanka have faced, CORD Srilanka is setting up a
chilld sponsorship programme to go into effect from April 2010. The
sponsorship will ensure that a child's basic educational
supplies, uniforms and other requirements will be taken care of.
CORD will also extend it to provide nutritional counselling, basic
health screening, school admissions,value based education and
family counselling. Mothers will be encouraged to get
involved in the women groups and microfinance programme to improve
their quality of lives. For more informartion please keep checking back
on our website or email us for more info.
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CORD Sri Lanka volunteers visit Jaffna in January 2010
On
New Year's Eve, CORD Srilanka volunteers visited Jaffna to provide
educational materials to IDP children and to
initiate women's groups (Mahalir Mandram) for microfinance programs.
They
approached the prinicipals of two schools, Kokuvil Sri Ramakrishna
Vidyasali and Kondavil Hindu Maha Vidyalayam, to identify
displaced children in desperate need of assistance.
At
Kokuvil Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalayam we provided locally bought uniform
cloth materials and shoes to 24 boys and 29 girls in Grades 1
to 11. A girl's pack contained white Uniform material, inner
garments and white Bata Shoe and socks. A boy's a pack
contained white shirt material, blue trouser material and black Bata
shoe with socks.
At Kondavil Hindu Maha Vidyalayam the
Principal, Mr. S. Shanmugakumar handed over the list of displaced
students (43 boys and 58 girls) in Grades 1 to 13 who were in need of
uniforms and shoes. As the number was large we opted to buy shoes as a
priority and presented it to the students at a function organized at
the school.
The total cost of the supplies were approximately $1500.
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| Women's Microfinance Project Continues to Grow
Chamber of Commerce continues to support CORD's Microfinance programmes
Recognizing
the success of CORD's microfinance programmes, the Chamber of Commerce
once again selected 24 women from our Women's Groups of
Batticaloa to gift Electric Ovens, Industrial Machines, Sewing machines
and Oil Expeller Machines. The selected women were affected by the
Tsunami and have been earning an average income of Rs
6,000-10,000/month through microfinance programmes. CORD's
successful micro finance programme has benefitted over 150
women in Batticaloa who are now engaged in small scale
entreprenuership earning an average income of Rs. 10,000/- per
month.
Introducing new Skills
CORD Sri Lanka sponsored a skilled craft and textile trainer from
India, Mrs Selvi Dharmendra, to conduct training programes for Women
Groups in Batticaloa and Ramboda in November. She has trained more than
100 women in variety of textile handiwork including embroidery, mirror
work, & zardhosi work; jewellery making such as making of
necklaces, bracelets and earrings using beads. She also trained them in
the making of pappads and pickles. The training programmes we selected
are not a skill set common among Sri Lankans and we generally import
such products. With the right guidance and encouragement some of these
skills can provide these women with a livelihood. The women of the
Mahalir Mandram who received these training were very appreciative and
motivated by the potential for a bright future. We would like to expand our programmes to the families in Jaffna.
Read more on: www.cordsrilanka.org/efforts/microfinance |
| Teacher Training
CORD Srilanka continues
its English Language Teacher Trainning program in
Batticaloa and Colombo. The teachers benefit immensely from the unique
approach of our trainer, Olga Schafheutle, who trains batches of
25 teachers for one year. Olga has extensive experience
in english language teaching in Germany and Belgium. In addition,
she was the principal of a high school in Germany for 10 years.
After her retirement she taught at various institutions in Sri Lanka
before joining CORD SriLanka. This program was initiated after we
noticed how the youth at schools are not benefitting properly from the
English Language classes. The teachers who have completed the
course are better equipped to train the youth.
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