Sri Lanka

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups across Sri Lanka.

• ‘It’s nice to help a life to live’: meet Sri Lanka’s turtle guardians, theguardian.com (Aug 08, 2024)

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Community resources

Biodiversity

• Sri Lanka Turtle Conservation Project, devises and facilitates the implementation of sustainable marine conservation strategies through education, research, and community participation by working alongside government departments, academic institutions and other NGOs. added 15:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

News and comment

2022

• “We build the road, and the road builds us.” What Sarvodaya, a SriLankan 'no-poverty, no-affluence' movement, can teach the rest of us, The Daily Alternative (Jun 17, 2022)

2016

Mangroves and incomes flourish as Sri Lanka's women promote conservation – in pictures, Jul 26^[1]

2015

Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests, May 12^[2]

2011

Sri Lanka commissioning its first solar power plant which can generate 500kw of electricity,^[3] August 26

2010

2010 SEED Award Winners: The "Rural Enterprise Network (REN)" aims at linking small-scale farmers to input-output markets through improved product quality, access to market information and the establishment of a common brand. By organizing producers in a network of organic agro- and food processing enterprises, the farmers will benefit from joint marketing services.^[4] November 3

2009

2009 SEED Award Winners: "Solar energy, education & fishing". National and international NGOs, with the cooperation of public authorities, are working to expand the use of an alternative lighting system in rural villages, through the replacement of kerosene lamps with solar panels.^[5] May 12

About Sri Lanka

From Wikipedia:Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest, and it lies across the Bay of Bengal from Bangladesh and Myanmar in the northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest city and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The majority of the population speak Sinhala, while Tamil is the second most-spoken language. They are spoken by approximately 17 million and 5 million people respectively.

Sri Lanka has a population of approximately 22 million and is home to several cultures, languages and ethnicities. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population, followed by the Sri Lankan Tamils, who are the largest minority group and are concentrated in the north of the island; both groups have played a major role in the island's history. Other long-established groups include the Moors, Indian Tamils, Burghers, Malays, Chinese, and Vedda.

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