European social service members visit South

Chamikara WEERASINGHE

COLOMBO: A twenty-member European social service technical mission on Thursday visited the Southern Province Chief Secretary’s office to discuss development programmes for the province under UNDP Art Gold Sri Lanka Programme. The mission had arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday.

It will visit community development centres, which were built under UNDP Art Gold Sri Lanka Programme (AGSL), in the next few days during which they plan to study the progress of their programme with a focus to reinforce the links between local working groups, donors, partners and the programme.

Nine Community Development Centres have been constructed in Ambalangoda, Hikkaduwa, Galle-Gintota, Imaduwa, Weligama, Kekanadura, Tangalle, Hambanthota and Tissamaharama under UNDP’s AGSL programme. Sources at the AGSL’s Southern Province Working Group Office said that steps were being contemplated to set up an emergency unit for Karapitiya Hospital under the programme.

The programme aims at strengthening the capacity of local authorities and communities to enhance their role in developing the province, sources said.