Mawathagama Development Foundation (Incorporation) Act (No. 13 of 1999)

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Mawathagama Development Foundation (Incorporation) Act (No. 13 of 1999) - Sect 3

General Objects of the Corporation

3. The general objects for which the Corporation is established are hereby declared to be"

(a) to improve the economic conditions of the poor ;

(b) to assist the people engaged in the domestic subsistance sector and the export agricultural sector, and to improve productivity in such sectors ;

(d) to assist and encourage, rural small industries and the generation of self employment ;

(e) to encourage and provide incentives to the poor to he self reliant ;

(f) to "contribute actively for the realization of the objectives of the national programme called and known as Samurdhi Movement for alleviation of poverty ;

(g) to enthuse the public in the matter of primary health care, and to provide advise thereon ;

(h) to improve health and nutrition levels, through social activation projects and to provide assistance for social welfare activities ;

(i) to provide financial assistance and advice, for the supply of drinking water ;

(j) to provide advice and assistance to low income rural poor, in matters relating to housing ;

(k) to educate the public on the ill-effects of liquor, drugs and smoking, and to free people from addiction thereto ;

(l) to implement programmes for the protection of the basic values of indigenous culture ;

(m) to educate the public on the values of rural culture in order to ensure a desirable social order ;

(n) to implement cultural programmes centered round places of religious worship ;

(o) to implement programmes which highlight indigenous cultural values at national and religious festivals ;

(p) to encourage, through various programmes, the development of indigenous cultural values which have hitherto suffered deterioration ;

(q) to contribute, encourage and implement, programmes to uplift preschool education ;

(r) to assist the students who sit for public examination of the government within the formal educational system, by holding seminars and discussions ;

(s) to implement programmes aimed at improving literati among those students who are left behind in the school educational system ;

(t) to assist and implement, informal educational programmes ; and

(u) to provide library service facilities.

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