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Blood donation camp (Second update)

Blood donation camp was held on 28th of July 2009 at the Pitakumbura Navodya School in  Bibile in Sri Lanka. The event is annually organized. Pioneers of the project is Mr. Kumara and Mr. Amarasiri of the school staff. The blood bank was from General Hospital in Ampara in Sri Lanka. Which is one of the best hospitals in the Asian region. More than sixty people donated the blood freely. There was a small opening ceremony on this event. The doctor in charge of the section, nurses, principals, staff,parents and the children opened the camped by lightening the traditional oil lamp. The Buddhist religious event was conducted by the Hon. Principal thero of the Hasalaka Buddhist religious school and the chief incumbent of the Wilethigoda and the Hamanawa royal temples. The thero further expressed the importance of such activities in the village level. The principal said that the importance of such programs to develop the emotional happiness of the children. The children and the teachers of the school has organized the event with enthusiastically. The teachers cooed the meal for the staff of the Ampara General Hospital. There was special foods in the remote Sri Lanka like “Kurakkan thalapa” and the jack curry. Desert was milk and honey. The officials of the hospital emphasized the importance of this event to fullfill scarecity of the blood in the eastern Ampara General Hospital. Because most people are not willing to donate blood in this paddy season the the eastern Sri Lanka.

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More about Nilgala (Second Update)

http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/nature/8.htm

http://environmentlanka.com/blog/2008/preliminary-study-on-herpetofaunal-diversity-of-nilgala-forest-area-in-monaragala-district-sri-lanka/

http://anthro.fullerton.edu/nilgala/

http://www.yawaves.com/upload/videoPlayer.php?id=190&page=1&language=1&cur=videoPlayer.php&key=Mihisara_0005&catid=6

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Blood donation camp

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දිගා මඩුලු ගීතය

උවේ කදු පෙළ නිළට නැමීලා

අඹ ආරේ වැව ඉස්මත්තේ

දිගාමඩුල්ලේ අසිරිය මතුවේ

වට මලු මහ දාගැබ් අතරේ

 

 

වෙල්ලස්සේ රණ ගීයට පණදී

ගල් ඔය දියවර ගෙනෙන බිමයි

වෑ කදු බැදලා ඒ මහ දියකද

සමුදුර ‍සේ සිර කෙරැන බිමයි

 

 

දැයටම අපගේ ජීවය සදහා

දිගාමඩුලු කෙත්වල නිල්ලයි

විල වැව වන හිස අසපුව අද වුව

අලි ඇතුන්ගෙ පෙම් ඕවිල්ලයි

 

 

ගායනය ඩබ්.ඩී අමරදේව

සංගීතය සෝමසිරි ඉලේසිංහ

පද රචනය සුනිල් සරත් පෙරේරා

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Visiting Prabhavi

Group of visitors asked me to organize a trip to visit Pitakumbura suburbs. Then we went on a trip on 22nd of January 2009. We waited at the Bibile bus stand till the visitors come from Colombo, via Kandy. We had to give directions to them to arrive Bibile city.  I went to the bus stand at 7.30 am and they came to Bibile at 8.30 am.

Then we asked them to have the breakfast from the Bibile- Ampara junction. They enjoyed the string hoppers.

Then they asked to go to a well managed Nenasala’s in Bibile. So, I asked to visit the Bibile Nenasala.

We met Mr. Nuwan, the manager to the Nenasala at around 10 am. The visitors discussed the sustainability of the Nanasala and network solutions available in Bibile.

He told that he is earning through uploading news videos to the news agencies through their reporters local and international apart from maintaining ICT tuitions.

The visitors said me that he has the business mind. Then we went through the Bibile-Ampara highway to Pitakumbura Navodya School at around 11.30 pm. Here they discussed on the development of the school children. They donated even prices to the children.

Next we reached to the Karadugala Blind lady House at karadugala in the Bulupitiya. The project was Sri Lanka’s first internet related government school  project in Sri Lanka.

The visitors too encouraged us to complete the house constructions above. They told that it was beautiful to see the constructions finished.

Then we started to drive to Prabhavi Resource Centre in Uhana in Ampara.

We passed Rathugala, Galgamuwa, Polwatte, Ampara to reach to the Uhana Prabhavi Resource Centre which was 28^th mile post at Weranketagoda in the Ampara- Kandy highway via Mahaoya.

The place was beautiful. Mr. Nelan is the manager of the organization. His wife and children were also there. He explained the history and the development of the program.

Prabhavi online radio is the first Sri Lankan online radio channel too operates from the PRC in Uhana. There are around 100 members of the radio club. They had the musical instruments, sound mixer, temperature meter, speakers etc. Mr. Nelan described the history and the developments of the PRC. This effort was initiated by his brother who is living USA now then Mr. Nelan took the management.

They are waiting to launch a FM community radio soon .  Their theme is the ICT for agriculture. They do many agricultural projects and is to be started a company called Prabhavi Agri. Now they make Kurakkan products to the Cargills, Sri Lanka.

They started a tuition centre with a public library when we went there on January. All the organization is run by volunteers.

Then we went to the lunch which was prepared by Mr. Nelan. We enjoyed the tasty foods in the eastern. We had milk and honey for the desert.

We left back at around 4 pm from Mr.Nelan’s house.

Thanks Mr. Nelan for this event.

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Birds in Nilgala!

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http://srilankabirds.blogspot.com/2009/07/watching-uva-birds.html

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Concept of eVillage

Main role of a school is ICT for education and ICT education. But when regarding as a tool to develop the village the ICT can play a major role. So, president secretariat and the ministry of education jointly organized this eVillage project in July 2007 by examining the success of the Mr. Nandasiri Wanninayaka’s eVillage project at Mahavilachchiya.

The main objective is the eVillage project is ICT for development by utilizing the school’s computer centre and the teacher. The ICT teacher will be the incharge of the village project. This is voluntary effort and all work voluntarily. They raise funds from the donors worldwide and the ministry of education or other will not provide funds at all. But they trains the teachers. They give a fish rod but not fishes.

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බල්ලා සහ ජල හිගය

August to November is the dry season to the Ampara, eastern, Sri Lanka. The people need to fight to take water for their daily routine. Most people bathe from the canals. In the end of the 2^nd paddy season the irrigation officers will limit the water supply through canals.

But I saw one man came taking a dog and began to bathe it in the canal. Most people bathe at the moment accused him.

It was a bad experience of me.

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මුර දේවතාවා හා දිගාමඩුලු මිනිසා!

අත්භූත මෙන්ම සියසින් දුටු දිගාමඩුල්ලේ අත්දැකීමක් ළගදීම කියන්නමි…….

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