Nirmanie Development Foundation

Nirmanie Development Foundation Alternatives for sustainable development It is registered under the social registration act of Sri Lanka. The result is poor get poor while rich is getting rich.

he Nirmanee Development Foundation (NDF) is one decade old grass roots organization working with mainly rural poor of Sri Lanka. The founder Nimal Hewanila was working with other non-government organization as a project coordinator of the project called change agent .The project mainly focus on mobilization of poor in order to reach their right and changing attitude towards handling of their lives. When that project has over he started the foundation with village people and some colleagues. NDF is based in Kegalle district of sabaragamuwa province in Sri Lanka.Kegalle district is one of poorest district in the island. The exiting social system is neglecting Poor's need and developing monopoly of all resources. Corrupted political and social system is created dependency for poor people. It is also neglecting environmental issues and human rights. Kegalle is famous for Tea and rubber cultivation. These plantations used to use lot of chemical for plantation and most land abandon because of no more fertile in Land. There are less food production and people are depending on out side resource. Same time district has resources and knowledge. Still abandon land can rehabilitate and can introduce organic system for Tea and Rubber plantation. People can cultivate their own vegetables and can be independence from dependencies. But it needs very strong mobilization and activities to cater the problems. NDF believes that an every one has capacities to develop them selves and live with dignity with out any discriminate. Hence it is important to make opportunity for the needy people to handle their own lives. The foundation has a vision of consolidating people in to groups and vibrant organs of primary local governance, federations them into strong pressure lobby for poor and environment development. A host of continuing dialogues, debates, educational, and other activities with the people, facilitated by the foundation tries to translate vision into reality. over the years, the programmed evolved from the meeting the simple sustenance need of the groups members to empowering them in order to address the larger issues of food security, natural resources enhancement education and health need of the district. The integration of the varies activities is intended to retrieve Poor's natural leadership position in their communities, and to fight the lack of access and control over the their resources. These activities alongside ensuring earth care are resulting in human care by giving the poor a new found dignity and profile in their village communities.

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These palm leavers books are old nearly 500 years. they are own by the healers and it has Sinhalese alphabetical . wr...
26/12/2016

These palm leavers books are old nearly 500 years. they are own by the healers and it has Sinhalese alphabetical . writing of the alphabetical is different to each others and they are very beautiful hand writing. these book were written by the monks which came from oral practices. this is proving that richness of Sinhalese language and knowledge on writing it in palm leaves

traditional snake bite healers monthly meeting was help with participation of the 30 healers. the knowledge old more tha...
26/12/2016

traditional snake bite healers monthly meeting was help with participation of the 30 healers. the knowledge old more than 3000 years and nearly 3000 herbals are using for treatment. women healers are having more herbals in their gardens. these are people who doing accrual biodiversity conservation. but the practices were ban by the British administration and now healers has to get registered under national laws and regulation which keep away most healer from the practice.

Traditional knowledge on snake bite treatment is one o f rich knowledge hold by the sri lankan indigenous people.the who...
20/09/2016

Traditional knowledge on snake bite treatment is one o f rich knowledge hold by the sri lankan indigenous people.the whole treatment process related with nature and helped with conservation biodiversity of the island. healers are treating on free and believing that they are collecting good karma. here are the picture of the knowledge holders meeting.

18/09/2016

Interviewing indigenous healers on sanke bite regarding herbal. according sri lankan ingeniance knowledge all the plants are herbal. snake bite healing is one of the disapring indigenous knowledge of sri lankan Naga tribes

sri lanka is rich with traditional food verities and they are some traditional yam verities
28/08/2016

sri lanka is rich with traditional food verities and they are some traditional yam verities

snae bite healers meeting
15/08/2016

snae bite healers meeting

vanilla cultivation doesn't need any chemical fertilize. still sri lankan soil is better and process is totally organic
02/09/2014

vanilla cultivation doesn't need any chemical fertilize. still sri lankan soil is better and process is totally organic

02/09/2014

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Hettimulla
Kegalle
71000

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0094 773586380

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