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| Viluthu Releases its calender 2012 |
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The ‘AHAVILI’ meaning the inner eye, an educational publication of Viluthu was commenced in September 2004 by Viluthu, targeting the educational community. Since then the publication of AHAVILI continued unabated until December 2010 and discontinued with its 76th issue as it faced a financial crisis during the same month. Viluthu had strived hard to secure funds for the continuation of this publication since January 2011 and finally secured funds from one of its donors to publish from September 2011.
The publication of AHAVILI since September 2011, continues to be circulated among the educational community and very specially the teaching community. The latest issue of this publication is the 89th issue of December 2012. In this issue there are eight educational articles pertaining to teaching and learning and other articles are very general ones catering the general public. |
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Viluthu has published the quarterly newsletter by the name ‘Thalaivi’ (the feminine name for leader) on behalf of the Womens Rural Development Societies (WRDSs) in August 2011. This newsletter has been published in order to establish and maintain better relationships between these WRDSs and to share the experiences in terms of the success of the projects implemented by these societies. This newsletter carries stories of good practices, exceptional leaders, news and views of the members of the WRDSs, and articles commenting on the on-going development schemes in the villages. |
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Viluthu is actively involved in implementing activities in order to bring about good governance in Sri Lanka. Viluthu's mission is to strengthen the capacities of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and doing the needful to cultivate a culture of democracy among these NGOs. Providing training, producing research papers and publications, networking the peoples' movements for lobbying and advocacy are the processes involved. Urimaikural is a monthly publication of Viluthu targeting the peoples movements where they share their information, views, etc.
Published by :
Viluthu - Center for Human Resource Development
Editorial Board:
Shanthi Sachithanandam
Nixon Amirthanayagam
Gayathri Nalinakaanthan
S. M. Najeem
Sharmila Seyid
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An exhibition titled 'Herstories' was held at Lionel Wendt Art Gellery, in Colombo on the 6th and 7th of April 2013. At this exhibition a sample collection of Mothers' Voice of Strength and Hope' were presented through hand written letters, photo essays, short videos, mappings and visuals of story-telling techniques. A similar exhibition was also held at the Christa Illam in Kalmunai in the eastern Province on the 20th and 21st of April 2013. |
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Viluthu has organized and held a gala dinner with the aim of raising funds for the widows and differently abled children of the North and East of Sri Lanka. This was held at Hotel Taj Samudra in Colombo and the key note speaker at the dinner was Mr. Narayanan Krishnan, a top 10 CNN Hero (2010), and founder of Akshaya Trust in Madurai. The theme of this event was 'Each one for All: Enriching Citizen and corporate Social Responsibility. The Deputy High commissioner for India was the chief Guest of this event .
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Viluthu has successfully held a public exhibition at the Colombo - Ramanathan Hindu ladies College, on the 15th and 16th of September 2012, targeting at the Tamil speaking viewers of Colombo, with the purpose of imparting civic education for school children and adults alike. The different stalls of the exhibition, consisted of visuals related to the state institutions and the legal framework of Sri Lanka, citizens' action stories, art works of University students, cartoons published in popular newspapers and magazines and a photo exhibition capturing the landscape and people of the North and East and the plantations. Apart from these, cultural events such as poetry reciting, street theatre, and folk dance were also performed by artists from the different districts of the North and East. The founder of the Akshaya Trust in Madurai and famed activist Mr. Narayanan Krishnan was the chief guest inaugurating the sessions.
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C.E.O - Viluthu Participating In The ALA Fellowship. |
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Viluthu has been campaigning to promote women’s participation in the Local Governments for over 10 years. In 2010, along with a coalition of five women’s organizations, it embarked on a pilot project of ensuring women’s increased representation in the nomination lists of major political parties. The programme was implemented in five districts of Sri Lanka, Viluthu taking responsibility for the district of Trincomalee. As a result of the achievements of this programme in terms of identifying women leaders at the grass roots, and also new relationships forged with leaders of the major political parties, the organizations involved in the implementation of this programme were awarded the Australian Leadership Award (ALA) Fellowship.
22 women from six organizations participated in the programme of over three weeks in Australia. Meeting with members of Australian women’s organizations, political parties and human rights organizations they were able to share their experiences as well as learn from their Australian counterparts on the challenges of promoting women in politics. Especially meeting with women candidates of political parties was very useful in thinking through new strategies for mobilization of women back at home. Towards the end of the programme, all the participants were able to jointly formulate new forward strategies. This programme was supported by AusAID.
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Sharing The Experiences Of Gender Resource |
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A one day workshop has been organized by Viluthu for the Gender Resource personnel from Jaffna, who had been trained last year, in order to share their experiences and to draw-up an action plan. Ms. Beulah Azaria, a well known activist and a resource personnel from Tamil Nadu, South India, would be the facilitator and the programme would be held at Ecumenical Institute in Colombo on 27th November 2012.
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Capacity Building Of Village Level Leaders |
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Viluthu has organized a training programme for the village level leaders from 25 villages in the districts of Jaffna, Puttalam, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Vanni. This programme aims at building the capacities of these leaders so that they would go back to their villages and initiate and implement advocacy campaigns and programmes related to Gender perspectives. Ms. Beulah Azaria, a well known activist and a resource personnel from Tamil Nadu, South India, would
be the Key Resource personnel and the programme would be held at Ecumenical Institute in Colombo from 22nd - 25th November 2012. |
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Training Work-shop On Advocacy And Lobbying |
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Viluthu has successfully conducted a Training work-shop on ‘Advocacy and Lobbying’ for 22 women participants who were the field level staff members of Viluthu and members of the Federation for the Women’s Rural Development Societies in the districts of Jaffna, Puttalam, Trincomalee and Batticaloa. This work-shop was held in Colombo for two days (22nd and 23rd of September 2012) with the assistance of an external resource person. Advocacy cycle, principles of lobbying and advocacy, problem analysis, stakeholder analysis, allies and opponents matrix, and preparation of an advocacy and lobbying plan were the topics covered under this training work-shop. |
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• a global strike
• an invitation to dance
• a call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends
• an act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers
• a refusal to accept violence against women and girls
• a new time and a new way
This is the call of 'V-Day' - an internationally famed Non-Profit Charity, to all the women in the world to walk out of their homes, their jobs, their schools and find their friends, their group, their place and music and dance. It further says, "a global dance action, our feet on the earth and in these months leading to One Billion Rising we will link our issues and stories and villages and cities to the dancing.
One Billion Rising is a global protest campaign to end violence, and promote justice and gender equality for women and in this context Viluthu also supports all the Women Rural Development Societies with which it has been working in the North and East of Sri Lanka, so that they take their own initiatives regarding this "one billion rising".
Click for videoViluthu initiated a land rights awareness programme early 2012 with a small booklet that instructed people on the laws that are applicable to some of the common problems found in the area related to land. This booklet was designed in a way so that the community based organizations could take it to their membership. In order to widen the outreach it also organized a workshop for some of the larger NGOs working in the East, so that they can in turn take this awareness raising project to their own constituencies. On the 29th of June 2012 one such meeting was held in Batticaloa district of the Eastern province with the member organizations of the NGO consortium of Ampara district, Sooriya women's organization, Community Development Foundation and a few smaller organizations. This meeting was hosted by DIAKONIA a Swedish donor organization. The discussion at this meeting was focused on viewing the land issue from a rights based perspective and Viluthu shared the achievements of SERP in India.
Universal Childrens Day was established in 1954 to protect children working long hours in dangerous circumstances and allow children access to education. UN General Assembly while recommending that this day be celebrated on the 20th of November, it has also recommended that all countries should establish a Universal Children's Day on an "appropriate" day. Hence the observance around the world differs from country to country. In Sri Lanka the Universal Childrens Day is observed on the 1st of October of every year. was established in 1954 to protect children working long hours in dangerous circumstances and allow children access to education. UN General Assembly while recommending that this day be celebrated on the 20th of November, it has also recommended that all countries should establish a Universal Children's Day on an "appropriate" day. Hence the observance around the world differs from country to country. In Sri Lanka the Universal Childrens Day is observed on the 1st of October of every year.The joy of giving was literally palpable among the people gathered at the Crystal Upper at the Taj Samudra in Colombo on that pleasant Sunday evening. Everyone was entranced by the man who was standing at the podium, speaking of his life and service to his society with so much modesty. “My father suggested that I should be institutionalised in order to deal with this sudden change” Mr. Krishnan revealed, when he was talking about the initial reactions his parents had when he had announced to them that he was quitting his very ambitious career as a professional chef in a five star hotel to feed and help the mentally ill, homeless and destitute of his hometown, Madurai. He went onto relate his long and arduous journey and commitment to a captivated audience with humility. It was this spirit of sharing and that he was able to let others partake of on that memorable evening. Mr. Narayanan Krishnan was the key note speaker at the event “Each One for All: Enriching Citizen and Corporate Social Responsibility” organised by Viluthu on the 16th of Spetember 2012. This dinner was our maiden fundraiser for the programmes that will assist widows and differently-abled children of the North and East of Sri Lanka. The event was well attended with over 140 guests. |
The war affected community is presently returning to their home places, to a totally devastated physical and social infrastructure. The struggle for survival is the symbol of their life style. This also means that their lives are beset with conflicts in the competition to access and control land and other resources. Furthermore, the dismembering of community life has mean the break up of nuclear families leading to the destitution of the women. This community is in dire need of legal assistance, which again, is long drawn and very expensive. The Mediation Boards have become the panacea of the marginalized rural community desperately looking for alternative avenues of conflict resolution.
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