Congratulations and Best wishes to our Sponsored children for producing excellent results at the 2021 General Certificate of Education ( Ordinary level) public examination, despite all the COVID- 19 limitations!
Category: Build a Future
Awareness program on new Agricultural techniques to SHG wone Farmers
CORD organized an awareness program for women farmers at their Ulavanoor office recently to improve their knowledge on new innovative technologies in agriculture. Mr. Vimalenthan from Government Department of Agriculture conducted the session for CORD SHG women. Starting by explaining the benefits of compost, methods of preparation, and method of compost application, he moved on to explain about the of soilless farming and growing inside green houses and their benefits. He also explained about drip irrigation and its benefits. The participants were extremely happy with the new knowledge they gained and share their feedback with him.
CORD Sri Lanka conducts a Career Guidance programme for students
The students often focus their education on passing the AL and entering the university to pursue their higher studies in their chosen fields. However, only few students enter the university and majority find it difficult to choose a suitable career path due to lack of knowledge about the alternate avenues available.
CORD conducted a Career Carrier Guidance Program for 75 school children in on 9th of October 2022. All the participants were given a notebook and a pen to record the useful points. The sessions started with the lighting of the oil lamp by Mrs. Gowrie Mahenthiran, Executive Director, CORD Sri Lanka and Mr M. Umakanth, Senior Lecturer, University of Jaffna, who conducted the sessions. Students demonstrated excellent self-discipline and observation while following the program with great interest. Students were also provided with necessary stationery, refreshments, and lunch by CORD.
From morning till evening, the kids were primarily calm and focused. The students were also taught specific themes about time management and positive thinking before and after breaks, such as pursuing higher education. Future programs may cover topics such as leadership and communication.
The consultant explained the importance of choosing a right career early without wasting their valuable time. Mr Sivarupan explained the AL qualified students how to fill the university entrance application form to apply for their prefeed courses. The day’s programme was over by 4 PM. The participants were extremely happy with the knowledge and thanked CORD for organizing the programme.
Navratri Pooja
Navaratri Pooja was held at our Ulavanoor office on 30th September 2022.The Pooja started by singing the Navaratri Bajan by the students and Mrs.Chandra gave a speech on the significant of the Navaratri festival.
50 sponsor children and 25 parents participated in the Pooja. They were offered with 5 kinds of Prasadam.
CHILDREN’S Day Celebration
Children’s day event was organized and celebrated in an excellent way at Ulavanoor CORD office on 30th September 2022.
The event started under the leadership of our sponsor child Yalavan who was sponsored for 7 years and sat for the advance level exam in 2021 and successfully qualified with 3C’s to enter university to do Physical science.
The first event was a poetry read by another sponsored child Sanoyan.
The next topic was about the child rights by another sponsored child Marudappan.
50 Sponsor kids participated in this event. The children enjoyed with dance performance and games & ice cream.
We gave the girls and boys 2 sets of inner garments, shirts, shorts and dress materials.
Computer/English class
Computer & English classes were started at Ulavanoor CORD office on 5th October 2022 which was Vijayadashami day by Nitharshana & Kristene.
14 students enthusiastically participated in these classes. These classes would be 1 hour for each class for 3 days a week following with a snack such as Saththuma or Kadala or green gram.
Free School Uniforms to Children
CORD Sri Lanka on 8th July 2022 donated school uniforms to 56 children to facilitate their continued attendance to school. As such 34 girls and 16 boys received uniforms from CORD.
CORD sponsored children produce excellent results despite many challenges
Despite many challenges faced during the pandemic, all our sponsored children who sat for the island wide public examination, General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) 2020 for the first time have done extremely well, and have qualified to continue their studies in the Advanced Level classes. Our warm congratulations to all of them and best wishes for their future studies.
Of the total grades, 32.3% has received ‘A’ grade while another 18.5% has received ‘B’ grade and 26.2% has received ‘C’ grade. Only 11% has got ‘W’ grade, mostly in English, indicating they are weak.
CORD and these children are highly indebted to the sponsors, Mrs.Yvonne Jayasinghe, Mr. Anil Metha, Mrs.Shalini Arunanthy, Mr Ananthan Sinnadurai and Mr & Mrs Nallainayagam for their continued support and encouragement given to these children.
CORD supported 25 School children
25 School children supported through CORD Build-A-Future program along with their parents participated at CORD Ulavanoor Office for Pujya Gurudev’s
Child Sponsorship Programme helps Thanustan to Enter Jaffna University
Thanustan Tharmaraja was just 15 years when his father left him and his two sisters leaving their mother as a single parent and sole bread winner to struggle to support the family without any regular source of income. When CORD came across the family the mother was helped to start a livelihood project tailoring to earn some income to maintain the family.
Thanustan was almost dropping out of school when CORD extended the support to him and his two sisters who were in great difficulty to continue their studies. CORD enrolled Thanustan and a sister to its child sponsorship program. From Grade 9 onwards Thanustan received educational assistance to pursue his studies. He made the best use of the opportunity offered to him by CORD and today he is a proud undergraduate at Jaffna University following a degree in Mass Media and Psychology. We are genuinely proud of his achievement and wish him all success in his studies.