Green Circle-Dambadeniya Development Foundation(Groupe)
*Participant name
Nimdha Dasayakana
*Country/Region
North Western Province-Srilanka
*Type of Group
Community, School, Home, Others
*Number of total members of your group/project
146 members
*Number of regular participants in activities
Around 60
*Characteristic of members
Our members are from 213 villages in the area consist more than 70% school children. We make awareness at House Hold level to get rid of Health hazards, specially Dengue fever and water born deceases due to poor quality water and unclean house Hold environments.
*Theme(s) of your group/project
*Air Pollution, *Biodiversity, *Chemicals, *Energy Issues, *Forest/Tree Planting, *Land and Soil, *Nature Conservation, *Wastes and Recycling, *Water Issues, *Climate Change/Global Warming Effect, *Urban Issues, *Peace Issues, *Poverty Issues, *Human Rights, *Others
*Missions and activities of your group/project
Our mission is to improve the lifestyle of the rural poor through appropriate Environment management through participatory efforts of all the community.
Our main activities are:
* To make awareness among school children through formation of school environment Clubs
* To encourage adults and youth in the village in active participation of environment activities such as creating a cleaner environment at house Hold level
* To make use of Street Dramas and Road shows by members to make awareness in the villages.
* To publish brochures and other newsletters to distribute among the community
* To organize environment camps to encourage more participation of school children to get first hand experience and awareness.
* To create income generating activities for women utilizing raw materials in the environment while maintain the biodiversity.
* Create opportunities for skill development and talent search at village level.
* Distribution plant among villagers
* Maintain plant nursery to meet the requirement of the community
* Fundraising activities to meet the event expenses.
*Characteristics of the group/project activities
The group mainly consists with children and youth meet once a month t at a general discussion apart from the relevant regular committee and group discussions. Each Scholl group is having a leader and a teacher in charge and Scholl leavers formed their own small groups within the forum in accordance with their capacities and abilities.\
The group has an advisory panel and a Team leader supported by sector leaders. They maintain an account at the Women Bank of the village and the accountability is being handling by a committee monitored and evaluate by the advisory group;
The main Activities:
* Organic gardening
* Biodiversity
* Reforestation[small village forests]
* Awareness
* Training & Development
* Facilitating sustainable income generation at micro level
* Participatory activities to improve communal harmony
*Most importnat way of thinking of your group/project for environment
Our group thinks that there is a duty for everybody to do something to create a better environment for the future. Further we feel that only through participatory activities and decisions we could achieve results.
*Major publications and articles
Green Leaf Newsletter
*What kind of group/project do you want to exchange for imformation and experience with?
Energy issues/Sustainable income generation through utilization of natural raw materials to eradicate poverty.
*Short message for exchange with other group/project
We have achieved our targets through participatory decision making and implementing process.
*Impression of Children's World Summit for the Environment 2005 Aichi
The experience obtained by our participant was shared with others and it had motivated our other members to achieve and get involve with more environment activities.
*Others
We are delighted that children coming from poor families were given the opportunity to come to Japan and attend the Summit, which turned out to be a very good experience and memory for them.
*Contact person
Joseph Rodrigo
*Contact Address
306,Negombo Road, NArammala,Srilanka
ddfit@sltnet.lk
*URL of Web site of your group/project
www.ddfnet.org
