1. We have completed our SATHKARA education program successfully. And our children got vacation for 2 weeks from 14th December.
2. We held a
New Year festival in April for Sathkara children with 15 cultural competitions for children and their parents.
3. HELP helped to arrange a new year festival and a
cricket tournament in April for young people in Dolahena, Aggona and Galkaduwa.
4. HELP participated with organizing the Wesak
festival in May.
5. We carried on Dengue prevention activities
throughout the year with the help of Grama Niladari (village headman, officer
at lowest level of local government), officers from MOH (Ministry of Health) office
and Sathkara children. We went from house to house and checked whether the
families keep the surrounding clean. Young people were most helpful for this
process and they were helping families by cleaning the environment and
instructing them how to prevent mosquito breeding. Niladaris often instructed
about legal action which can be taken if people neglect the cleaning process.
Dengue is still rare in Horana area, but the epidemic
may spread because of people who are travelling to Colombo and other
dengue-infested areas.
6. Road cleaning and tree planting activities were
held on the World Environment day and the World Children`s day.
7. We held the annual Sathkara cultural festival with
the help of Asbjorn Tufto`s family and performances were presented from both
countries. Sathkara children got gifts after the festival was over.
8. HELP arranged several meetings with local
authorities and the people in Dolahena, Aggona and Wewala to develop the basic
needs of the area and organized several shramadanas to clean roads and plant
trees. Meetings with the local authorities are not very successful always
because of their political solution often make the boarders and divide the
people.
9. We held eight workshops on Drama, Music, Dancing
and Art for the Sathkara children with the help of the students of the Sri
Palee campus, teachers and professionals.
10. The “BRUBYGGING” bridge was built to honour Hans Petter Hanssen’s
many years of commitment to development education and folk high school
pedagogy. The bridge monument was inaugurated on the same day of the Sathkara
cultural festival.
11. We started to expand the HELP building in May
2013, but could not complete the first floor yet due to financial constraints.
Nor can we use the ground floor rooms yet because they were not finished yet.
Annual financial report 2013
Total sum received from friends in Norway and Sweden
in 2013 is NOK 23.300. Expenses are as follows:
1.
|
Sathkara education program including allowances,
stationary, books, etc.
|
7.500/=
|
2.
|
Tree planting, Shramadanas and dengue prevention
activities
|
3.000/=
|
3.
|
Training programs and workshops
|
5.500/=
|
4.
|
Festival expenditure
|
3.000/=
|
Please
note that we have mentioned only the major activities on the progress
report. Also note that the expenditure
on the financial reports only the contribution of NFA.
The details of HELP, other organizations and
the parents contribution is not
mentioned.
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