Social Welfare
Social Justice
Training and Education
Social Development
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RECOGNITION
LOCAL RECOGNITION
Founder of Samadeepa is a social development worker with experience of more than 40 years. He founded Samadeepa Samaja Kendraya in 1980 It was registered with the Department of Social services in Sri Lanka under No. Anu /1/82 of 04/10/82 and again under No. 0095 of 04.05.1994. It was incorporated by Act No. 23 of 1992 by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Samadeepa received higher level of state recognition receiving registration certificate No. L 143916 of 02.09.2011 from the National NGO Secretariat operating under the Ministry of Defence. He is responsible for establishment of nearly 200 community based and Non Governmental Organizations in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. He is also the founder of Action Group for Social Development (AGSOD) which is working with an island-wide coverage with special emphasis on the North Central Province. He founded the Peoples Assembly of Sri Lanka (PASL) which is promoting good governance at different levels in different sectors in all parts of the country.
Around 100 organizations have joined the Peoples Assembly representing all nine provinces. Around 600 organizations have expressed their willingness to support the Peoples Assembly and more that 15000 people belonging to different sectors such as religious institutions, political parties, business community, trade unions and farmer organizations have also expressed solidarity with the Peoples Assembly. With this network of organizations the programme will definitely succeed promoting its cherished vision, a world where democracy will flourish with good governance, transparency, accountability, social responsibility, human rights and rule of law.
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION - ICSW, WANGO, ICSD and other Organizations
Samadeepa has been associated with international agencies since 1984. The first organization that came forward to give a helping hand was Community Aid Abroad, Australian counterpart of OXFAM. The following table shows its association with international agencies and diplomatic missions.
No
|
Institute
|
Description
|
Year(s)
|
Monetary Value
(Roughly) LKR
|
01
|
Community Aid Abroad - Australia
(CAA)
|
Training, Cattle rearing , Credit and savings
|
1984 / 88
|
800000/-
|
02
|
Save the Children Fund – UK
|
First aid
|
1985
|
1000/-
|
03
|
Swiss Inter- cooperation
|
Training
|
1987 / 1988
|
300,000/-
|
04
|
Oxfam – UK
|
Buffollow Credit Scheme
|
1988 / 1989
|
400000/-
|
05
|
AgriSwiss Rural Development Consultants
|
Training
|
1988 / 1989
|
15000/-
|
06
|
Oxfam – Quibec (through
(Sri Lanka Canada Development Fund )
|
Training, Cattle rearing , Agriculture and Self Employment
|
1989 / 92
|
1700000/-
|
07
|
National Development Trust Fund (World Bank UNDP funded through treasury )
|
Nutrition/ Social Development / Credit / Community Projects
|
1992/ 1996
|
50000000/-
|
08
|
Action against Hunger - France
|
Relief and Rehabilitation
|
1997/ 1998
|
2500000/-
|
09
|
Save the Children - Norway
|
Pre School Development, Child Care & credit funds
|
1997/2000
|
20000000/-
|
10
|
Hope for Children - UK
|
Child Development
|
1998/2002
|
2000000/-
|
11
|
National Integration programme Unit
|
Peace Education
|
1999/2000
|
67000/-
|
12
|
Commonwealth Foundation
|
Training (Abroad)
|
2001
|
125000/-
|
13
|
United Nations Development Programme
|
Peace Education
|
2005 / 2006
|
650000/-
|
14
|
Canadian International Development Agency
|
Peace Education - I
|
1988/1989
|
1000000/-
|
Peace Education -II
|
2001/03
|
2600000/-
|
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Peace Education -III (KKDDC)
|
2003
|
700000/-
|
||
15
|
International Council on Social Welfare
|
Training / Awareness Building
|
2003/2004
|
30000/-
|
16
|
United States Development Agency (USAID)
|
Training / Education
|
2004 / 2005
|
1500000/-
|
17
|
World Association for Non Governmental Organizations (WANGO)
|
Training / Awareness Building
Peoples Assembly of Sri Lanka
|
2006
|
50000/-
|
18
|
Oxfam – Hong - Kong
|
Rehabilitation and Credit (1)
|
2005
|
8000000/-
|
Rehabilitation and Credit (2)
|
2006
|
8000000/-
|
||
19
|
The Asia Foundation
|
Community Policing Support Programme.
|
2013 - 2014
|
4080000/-
|
Total
|
104518000/-
|
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A number of organizations have taken interest in including Samadeepa in their directories. Some of them are as follows.
International Council on Social Welfare - ICSW
As far back as 1996 Samadeepa joined International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW). Since then it was a very active member of ICSW.
Founder of Samadeepa held the position of regional president for Central and South Asia since 2004. After completing his 2 two year terms, in June 2008 Mr. Charles Jayasinghe representing Samadeepa was elected Regional President for South Asia and undertook to continue with the programme initiated by his predecessor. Samadeepa is very much thankful to ICSW for the international exposure it received through the network. Samadeepa remained an active member of the ICSW for a period of 15 years ( 1996 - 2010 ) then it was able to support National Peace Council to become the national member for Sri Lanka.
World Association of Non Governmental Organizations - WANGO
Samadeepa played the key role in establishing the Sri Lanka Chapter of World Association for Non Governmental Organizations (WANGO) in 2004. Founder of Samadeepa was appointed by WANGO as its national representative in Sri Lanka. Most of the people holding high positions in WANGO – Sri Lanka chapter are civil society leaders came up through community based and Non-Governmental organizations initiated or supported by Samadeepa. Please visit for details : www.wango.org
Other Organizations:
Information on Samadeepa can be seen in websites operated by different organizations in the fields of Peace, Social Justice, Social Development, Democracy and Good Governance.
International Consortium for Social Development - ICSD
Samadeepa joined ICSD quite recently ( May 2010 ) New relationship will definitely create opportunities for new experience for the present and future generations. Please visit for details : www.iucisd.org
Through global networks Samadeepa has been exposed to international development community.
At present it is playing an active role in the fields of peace, social justice, social welfare, social development, democracy, human rights and Good governance.
