Trade & Economy for youth

During ancient days trading started with exchange of goods and services (barter system) for human needs and with the introduction of Money it become more regularized. Money is the medium of exchange of trade. Now each activity we do in our everyday life, in way is a treading activity. Therefore “Trading” is a part of our life. It is very important to know the pros and cons of trading activities we face in everyday life.
Credit card is one of the mostly used trading media as and the impotency of knowing the advantages and using it with care to avoid additional payments and getting into liquidations are to be considered when using. One of the reasons for the world financial crises is the inability of paying the purchases done through credit cards. Proper understanding of “Trading” is therefore very important for our future success.
Youth participated in the life skill programmes commented on the know how they gained in advantages of usage of credit cards in an appropriate handling of it’s application.
This programme was conducted by Dambadeniya Development Foundation with the assistance of AJW to promote youth skills.

26th January, IT Day of Dambadeniya Development Foundation

IT Day of Dambadeniya Development Club was ceremonially opened today at Open Auditorium. This event was facilitated by many veterans in IT and Management fields. This has been organized by the IT Club of Dambadeniya to improve the awareness on Information Technology of youths and students in the area. They have scheduled to conduct many valuable workshops and lectures on importance of IT knowledge acquisition and self management.

eYouth Forum launches its national networking process at JAVA 2009 Exihibition in Colombo.

The National Youth Forum establishing and networking process was launched today by the Damabadeniya Arunalu e-Youth Forum at JAVA 2009 exhibition premises at BMICH in Colombo. Through this they expect to make use ICT  for designing and developing a better future for youths in all parts of the country. Under this program they expect to empower all its member youth technically as well as with soft skill. Further, they  focus on youth’s livelihood and future employment also. According to them that kind of support programs enhance the opportunities of project sustainability and program  integration at any place of country disrespecting to ethical, language or social differences. 

“We want introduce and improve the awareness on eYouth Forum concept to other youths in the country. Further this will be the step stone of new relationships. We realized that most of the youth come to us are really interested on this and they are enthusiastic than we expected. That is good sign for us, we hope we would be able commence our preliminary activities in the nearest future and deliver the benefits all youths in the country.” Told one member participated to JAVA 2009 Exhibition from eYouth Forum from Dambadeniya. 

Mr. Sunil Rodrigo, Senior Manger Damabadeniya Development Foundation, also said ”It is a great opportunity for youth to step into a common platform where they could address their grievances, issues and ideas to be reckoned by relevant decision and policy makers in the country”

Interviewed by Wasantha Tennakoon 

Role of ICT in conflict resolution and peace

It is well known that at every level, from the family unit up to the national level ethnic conflicts, the major bottle neck in exchanging the views and thoughts is the huge communication gap prevailed through out the past few decades. Though the grass root level participants play a major role, most of the times few decision makers are taking vital decisions creating these gaps wider as those are not being implementing at the grass root level. Hence usage of the new technology, ICT could play a major role bridging these communication gaps through participatory process and in addressing the common issues and improving the relationship among these groups caught in the middle of the conflicts.