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YouLead’s Formula for Impact
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or decades, youth employment has been an issue in Sri Lanka, where they make up almost a quarter of the population of 21 million. According to the World Bank, only about 64% of Sri Lankans completed upper secondary level education in 2022.
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.
MoJo Empowers a Young Man to Serve His Rural Community
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Flashback to August 2018, when a group of people are on a pier in the midday heat, waiting for the familiar sight of the ferry. This ‘moving bridge’ would take them to the other side of the river. Until the ferry arrives, they are exposed to the scorching heat, their minds revisiting the risks of an impending ride across a deep river on an ill-made ferry. Those are risks they have long chosen to accept in the absence of a safer alternative. On the sun-baked eastern coast of Sri Lanka, these people from two remote villages remain separated by a giant body of water, with a conspicuously missing structure: a bridge.