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Fostering understanding for young members of the expatriate Sri Lankan community Source:Asiafoundation The Foundation created LankaCorps to help members of the expatriate Sri Lankan community engage with post-conflict Sri Lanka and to enhance their understanding of the country. The program fosters identification with Sri Lanka among youth with limited experience in the country of their heritage. LankaCorps Fellows will be placed with host organizations identified by The Asia Foundation in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. These affiliations will be augmented by an orientation program, language training, and periodic activities with other young leaders. Asia Foundation staff will offer in-country advisory and logistical support for the Fellows during their six-month affiliation. The fellowship will provide a travel stipend to cover roundtrip international airfare, in-country living expenses (including a monthly stipend and housing), and health insurance coverage. ...

DONATION OF BOOKS TO SRI LANKAN LIBRARIES The Consulate General office wishes to call your attention for the donation of valuable books by Dr. Mike Katz, Mineral Development Consultant from Australia which will be handed over to Universities in Sri Lanka. In the same spirit, the Consulate General office would also like to request from the esteemed members of the Sri Lankan community/ organizations in NSW if they could donate any useful historically valuable books for distribution in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan community which migrated to Australia since 1960s, would have brought many publications from Sri Lanka and some of them would be valuable in relation to the History of Sri Lanka as well as useful for University students who are pursuing courses in the stream of Medicine, Law, Sociology, Commerce, IT, Engineering, Architecture, Agriculture, Biology and so on. In addition, we understand that there are a number of ...