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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
Save the Children in Sri Lanka is providing funds to set up 60 social development Centres in all the 59 divisions affected by the tsunami. This programme is implemented by the Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare Ministry and the foundation stone for the first centre was laid in Malamulla in Panadura recently a release by Save the Children said, writes Daily News 031105 at http://www.dailynews.lk/
Forwarded by Budhi Mulyawan 031105.
The Social Development Centres are meant to be administrative centres for social services for the general public. Save the Children is financing the construction on these centres and is working with the Ministry in developing the services of these centres to enhance the protection and welfare of children.
These centres are set up with the idea of providing a social welfare services of local government administration to children and families.
Service delivery activities of Social Welfare Ministry will be well coordinated through these centres and at divisional level the public will have access to the services of even other ministries.
The Centres will be staffed with skilled personnel to handle all issues related to child and family welfare. The Ministry strongly believes that these centres will make a productive contribution to social development at village level. Persons will be able to get their birth certificates, assistance for health, legal and employment matters as well as any other social needs at these centres without having to go to the cities.
Save the Children has been working very closely with the Ministry on a number of projects and has always supported the ministry in capacity building. The setting up of social Development Centres is another venture where Save the Children and UNICEF will be giving financial assistance to enhance the social service delivery of the ministry.
The centres are designed in a way that the space could also be used for community gathering. It will also be a place of safety for people in times of emergency.
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