.: Livelihood assistance for the women headed families

The women section of the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement has launched a program to assist the women and women headed families to enhance their economic situation in the meanwhile implementing various programs to empower the women in different ways. It has a process such as selecting the most suitable beneficiaries, guide them to develop individual business plan, filtering the beneficiaries with a validation, proving assistance according to the selected business and keep monitoring. Puttlam District Fisheries Solidarity is one of the partner organizations of NAFSO. It arranged a program to provide livelihood assistance for 5 women headed families located in Palliwasalpaduwa. The event was organized by Mrs. M.T.F. Nafura, Animator and Mr. M.H.M. Siyaj, Volunteer of Puttlam District Fisheries Solidarity Movement in Palliwasalpaduwa on 31, October 2020.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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Livelihood assistance for the women headed families