Inner Wheel Club to assist IDPs

Inner Wheel Club to assist IDPs

(By : Walter Liyanarachchi)

The Inner Wheel Club of Colombo South is committed to assist the resettled IDPs in the North and it has been considered as one of the prime duties in the social service list of the club, Inner Wheel Club District Chairman, Swarna Soysa said.

She was addressing the installation of 10th President, Nalayini Sivalingam and the 9th anniversary celebration held in Colombo.

"While performing that service, we also should help women and children to live with dignity and overcome the difficulties that they are faced with. In Sri Lanka we still have 14 percent of children who do not enter school at the age of five years. These children may never enter school or they may never have a proper education. It is mainly due to the lack of education that most girls ruin their future. With education they can overcome many hurdles and attain the freedom that they yearn for, she said.

The Inner Wheel movement started in Sri Lanka with one club. When we bifurcated in 1985 we had only eight clubs. Now after 25 years of bifurcation we have 18 clubs.

The growth of our clubs depends on us and we should strive harder to increase our membership strength," she said. The Inner Wheel Club President, Nalayini Sivalingam said that as an international women's organisation it is only fitting that we give priority to projects involving women and children.

This year's theme of our International Inner Wheel, 'Help bring Hope' is suitable at a time when people are undergoing hardships due to natural and man-made disasters all over the world. The district project for this year is planned to help bring hope to 18 families of widows and their children to overcome their dire needs and to help the children to be educated and become good citizens, rather than end up as misfits of our society.

Courtesy : Daily news