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    14Jan, 2023
    Muslim Aid has supported Poor & Vulnerable School Children by providing bicycles, stationary items, furniture, foot vouchers and also handed over the renovated and reconstructed school buildings.

    Under the Muslim Aid ‘s School Based Participatory Educational Development Programme 2022/2023, it has supported T/Kan/ Galamitiya Vidyalaya, T/Kin/ Buhari Muslim Maha Vidyalaya, T/kin/ Fathima Balika Maha Vidyalayam and T/ Barathipuram Parashathi Vidyalaya with bicycles, school stationary items, furniture, foot vouchers and also handed over the renovated and reconstructed school buildings to the students and the management of schools.

    Mr. PH Gamini Bandara , Deputy Director of Kantale Zone was the chief guest at T/Kan/ Galamitiya Vidyalaya while Mr. Nasoorkhan – Zonal Director of Education , Kinniya was at T/Kin/ Buhari Muslim Maha Vidyalaya and T/kin/ Fathima Balika Maha Vidyalaya and Mr. Sridaran – Zonal Director of Education – Trincomalee was the chief guest at the event at T/ Barathipuram Parashathi Vidyalaya.

    In all four events, the school principals, teachers, Muslim Aid staff , school development committee members and parents also participated. The chief guests and guests were welcomed by the students in all four schools. At this crucial economic crises in the country, Muslim Aid’s supports were highly appreciated and welcomed by the zonal directors of education, principals , teachers, parents and students. Muslim Aid has been operating in Sri Lanka since 2005, under number of thematic programme including education, economic empowerment, humanitarian response and health awareness.

    5Feb, 2020
    Muslim Aids supports refugee returnees and vulnerable children to start their first day at school

    On request of primary schools of Sanmuga and Sindu in the resettled village of Pallikkudiyiruppu, Muslim Aid supported 20 children with school packs to start their first day at school.

    The event was held today (03.02.2020) at the T/Mut/ Kalaimahal Hindu College with the participation of the principal, teachers and staff of Muslim Aid.

    Although the literacy rate in Sri Lanka is approximately 94%, in remote and underdeveloped villages, children are still facing severe hardships to start and continue their education. One of such villages is Pallikudiyiruppu, a resettled village in Trincomalee district where the villagers had to face multiple displacements due to the war that lasted for three decades and ended only in 2009.

    There are five preschools in five small communities in the Pallikudiyiruppu resettled village. All the families from this region were displaced to Batticaloa and Trincomalee districts and a few families took refuge in India around 10-15 years backs. All the families are poor and lost everything during the displacement.

    The parents and the preschool teachers sent their request through the District Secretary in Trincomalee to the Muslim Aid field office, five days prior to today’s event; and The Assistant Government Agent facilitated the process. After the assessing the situation, Muslim Aid Sri Lanka allocated funds and arranged the school packs for distribution promptly. This activity falls under the ‘Education for All – Up for School’ programme.

    The new preschool kids were ceremonially welcomed by grade one kids and the teachers. A school teacher spoke at the event saying,

    “We made many requests to different circles to support these kids in the past. However, this is the only time we received this kind of support. Our deep thanks to Muslim Aid and the staff of GA office for making this happen”. 

    In December last year, Muslim Aid distributed school packs to students from three ethnic communities, starting from Vilankulam of Trincomalee and reaching out to three other Sinhala schools from the Kuliyapitiya region.

    Muslim Aid celebrates 15 years of dedicated service in Sri Lanka this year. It has been operating in Sri Lanka since 2005 as a humanitarian and development agency working in five strategic areas including economic empowerment, humanitarian support; education development, health, water and sanitation. Muslim Aid’s programmes are combined with peace-building and social cohesion among communities in the country.

    6Aug, 2019
    Muslim Aid Sri Lanka, supported by the British Council, joins hands with the Vocation Training Authority (VTA) of Sri Lanka

    Muslim Aid, with the backing of British Council Sri Lanka joined hands with the Vocational Training Authority (VTA) of Sri Lanka to launch the Youth Community Resilience Programme in the districts of Anuradhapura, Batticaloa and Trincomalee. As such Muslim Aid and the VTA entered into a MOU to implement the programme where selected youths from three vocational training centers in the three districts would be trained using the British Council Active Citizens framework. The programmes commenced in April 2019.

    Muslim Aid have been partners with the British Council since 2013, where Muslim Aid are delivery partners for the Global Active Citizens (AC) programme where youth are trained and educated to take a lead role in resolving issues in their communities and villages. In Sri Lanka, the youth studying with the VTA are talented, skilled and eager to learn but often lack social competency and understanding of their communities. After rounds of discussion with the VTA, about how to fill this gap, Muslim Aid teamed up with the VTA to build their capacities by using the Active Citizens Training Framework and Toolkit. This however, has been carefully reviewed and then re-formulated by the VTA and Muslim Aid to complement the curriculum of the VTA.

    The purpose of the collaboration and the programme, is for Muslim Aid and the VTA to use the British Council Active Citizens programme to train youth to be socially skilled and be able to establish social justice, community resilience and social cohesion in their regions. Muslim Aid has incorporated the Active Citizens programme into the Youth Community Resilience project whose main component will be focusing on Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice as well as Strong Institutions. This falls into one of Muslim Aid’s areas of work which focuses on inclusiveness of peace and co-existence, keeping in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) -16.

    The project aims to reach a 100 or more young people, aged 18-29 years old, who are currently engaged in technical education, by providing social skills that are required to perform as an employee, entrepreneur and overall, as a citizen of the country. The programme hopes reach other Technical Education Institutes such as NAITA, Technical Colleges, National Youth Corps (NYC) to provide social skills to students who follow at least 6- month technical courses.