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WERC together with the Women's Voice and Leadership Sri Lanka - The Asia Foundation, launched this project with the aim of building the capacity and to strengthen the voice of women in Sri Lanka. The project is organized to build the capacity of selected women activists, development workers, academicians and researchers and indirectly their organizations and workplaces through a Certificate Course in Women's Studies in the local languages. This is a multi-disciplinary course, which seeks to combine both theory and
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WERC in partnership with Mannar Women's Development Fund (MWDF) has undertaken to build a cohort of 25 young women trained and equipped to take the feminist agenda forward in their own contexts and as a collective group. This project seeks to bring to the forefront, issues affecting women including Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), laws pertaining to Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) and other flaws in the personal laws that discriminate against women. It also seeks to address harmful cultural practices s
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WERC launched its 'Care and Share’ project on the 8th of March 2018 as a part of its activities for International Women’s Day 2018. Clothes, shoes, stationery, children’s toys and dry rations etc. were collected by the WERC staff and distributed to the needy beneficiaries. Care & Share Project - 1st Batch Care & Share Project - 2nd Batch Care & Share Project - 3rd Batch
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