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This project was conducted on Eastern and Northern provinces. WERC considered several group of children and supported and encouraged them to continue their education. Most children received cash for purchasing school stationary and some children were taken to visit historical places to help to come out from the traumatized event. WERC also provided money for the children who needed to stay in Boarding houses during their schooling. To carry this project several donor agencies supported such as De Zairre Foundation
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WERC has been conducting gender sensitization workshops from past three decades. This project was initiated with the following objectives: sensitizing society on gender related issues, consciousness - raising, creating awareness among men and women on the economic, social, political, cultural and legal inequalities of women in society, defining gender equality and providing relevant information. The following donors funded us in conducting these workshops. Oxfam-GB (funded for two workshops) MATCH Intern
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With the main objective of drawing attention to the issue of sexual harassment in public transport and creating awareness about the legal provisions available to prevent such behavior, this project was begun on the International Women's Day of the year 2006. This campaign also aimed to empower women to speak-up against this type of harassment and make the by-standers realize their social responsibility to prevent such as situation. The officers of Provincial Transport Authorities extended their fullest corporation
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CARE International, Batticaloa requested WERC WERC to conduct a familiarization programme for their staff members and the staff of their partner community-based organizations. Their primary objective of us conducting this programme was them to become familiar with the various organizations working on similar levels as them, and organizations that could be approached by them for their project work. This programme was conducted in both Tamil and Sinhala in the form of interactive discussion, and the discussion was led
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WERC introduced this course, for the first time, in the Eastern and North-Central Provinces of the country. Previously, it had been conducted only in Colombo. It was due to requests from residents in this area, together with Oxfam, that it was conducted in these areas. However, due to the political and security situation in these areas, the progress of the course was affected because lecturers and students were unable to attend classes. There was also a delay in the delivery of assignments; only a few research papers
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The task of lobbying with the relevant authorities to implement the SAARC Convention on Combatting Trafficking of Women and Children for Prostitution, as a part of the South Asian Network Building by SARI/Q, was entrusted WERC. Consequently, WERC partnered-up with Centre for Social Research, New Delhi and started this project in December 2005. The International Stakeholders Consultation was held at the WERC Auditorium in December 2008. Thereafter, 3 national stakeholders meetings were organized with the relevant au
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This project aimed to create awareness on the importance of peace making and the controversial concepts related to peace making among the general public. WERC signed an agreement with CORDAID to conduct peace education workshops from August 2006 for a period of three years. The idea behind this introduction of this project was to educate and create awareness among the general public with special reference to law enforcement authorities, students, teachers and NGO personnel on issues, problems and challenges related to p
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A project to implement the SAARc convention against trafficking in women and children for prostitution in the SAARC region through effective lobbying and advocacy was entrusted to WERC to be done in Sri Lanka. This project was funded by SAIR/EQUITY and was supported by the Centre for Social Research (CSR) in New Delhi. WERC conducted the first national level consultation with certain Ministry representatives, NGO representatives, 3 CSR representatives and a SAIR/EQUITY representative in December. Although human t
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Requests were made to WERC to conduct training programs for staff of various NGOs on topics related to areas which were of current interest. Staff members from the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, Trincomalee District branch participated in a gender-based violence workshop held at WERC auditorium in January 2005. The program covered Rape and Sexual Harassment, Trafficking and Forced Prostitution, Women and Laws, Violence against Women, Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality as a social construction. The Red Cross Socie
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