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The Pekoe Trail - Discover Serendipity on Foot
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Enjoy walking in nature? Try the Pekoe Trail, from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya.
A Sri Lankan Woman Turns Her Disability into a Silver Bullet
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Suranga Udari, a 32-year-old woman from Ahangama, in Sri Lanka’s southern district of Galle, is not one to let life’s challenges stand in the way of fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a journalist.
USAID assistance helps a youth to start a life-changing career in ICT
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Saad Farook, a youth from Kandy with exceptional analytical skill, had a bright future ahead of him until misfortune struck. In 2016, Saad was forced to leave his undergraduate program at the university he was attending, two years before graduation with a ICT degree.
Women-led start-up benefits from USAID’s systemic support
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Top Gem Lapidary is a women-led enterprise started by eight previously unemployed youth from Central Sri Lanka. The launch of this enterprise highlights the importance of increasing youth employment and entrepreneurship through a systemic, market-led approach. That was the concept behind USAID’s design for the Youth Employment and Business Start-up (YouLead) project.