LOANS TO WAR WIDOWS FOR LIVELIHOOD ACTIVITIES.
Hindu Council Of Sri Lanka( HCSL) has been helping refugees and war affected people in the North and East by granting them the immediate basic needs like dry rations and clothing during the period of war in the North & East. However after the war ended in the year 2009 we have stopped this practice and have initiated projects which will help the war widows from these areas to involve in livelihood activities that will generate income from which they could live on their own without any further support from others.
It is for this purpose HCSL granted loans to 10 selected war widow families in Pesalai for them to involve in book shop business, home gardening, rearing of goats, rearing of cows, poultry farming and hoppers shop business.
Loans to the value of Rs.40,000/- were granted to each of the 10 families to be repaid in 20 installments, without interest commencing from January 2024. All arrangements for the granting of the loans and purchasing of the items needed for the livelihood activities were carried out by our coordinator in Mannar. The funding for the total loan of Rs. 400,000/- was granted by Tamil Engineers Union of Australia who has been assisting us for more than a decade.
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On behalf of the HCSL I wish to thank the Tamil Engineers Union of Australia e for funding the project and made it a success. We do hope that they will continue to help us in the future too in order to raise the living standard of the widows of North & East.
PRESIDENT.
