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Success vocational training centre opened

by Peradeniya special correspondent

The 5th A.G.M. of the Success Children's Home and the official opening of the Success Vocational Training Centre was held at the Home at Pilimatalawa recently.

Success (Secretariat for the Upliftment and Conservation of Cultural and Economic Standards of Sri Lanka) is an N.G.O. committed to eliminate poverty in Sri Lanka.

The success Children's Home is one of its Social Service Projects, established at Kahambe, Pililmatalawa in 1997 for 30 destitute girls of the North-East. These children hail from Welikande, Dimbulagala, Aselapura, Sinhapura villages in the Polonnaruwa District.

The Home is housed in a small building donated to the organization by a philanthropist of the area.

The girls are between the ages of 6 and 18 years and attend Gadaladeniya Maha Vidyalaya and Sri Subhoda Dhamma School, Peradeniya for Dhamma education. A keen interest is taken about their education and extra classes are provided. The day to day requirements of the girls are fulfilled by the management committee with a lot of parental care, affection and attention. The institution is total run on donations received from well wishers.

The Management says that the children are not given for adoption under any circumstances.

The Management Committee looking to the future of these girls had recently been able to purchase the adjacent land of 30 perches with cash donations for Rs. 340,000, a building for a Vocational Training Centre built for the benefit of school leavers. The funds for the building has been provided by the Sri Lanka Canada Development Fund.

The organisation has already started dress making and sewing classes for the children.

The Chief Guest at the opening ceremony was Dr. E.M.S. Edirisinghe, Head of the Institute of Technological Studies and Oasis Hospital, Narahenpita and the Guest of Honour was Sam Wijesinghe, former Secretary of Parliament and Ombudsman. Dr. Edirisinghe donated Rs. 75,000 for a pre-school project for low income families in the environs.

The ceremony was concluded with the opening of a Sewing Exhibition organised by the children of the Home.

Malini Edirisinghe donated Rs. 10,000 for the purchase of sewing equipment.

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