Lankan bags Courageous Women for 2010 Award

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Community Trust Fund Managing Trustee Jenzila Majeed who was awarded the prestigious international award for The Courageous Women for 2010 in an interview with the Daily News on her arrival in the island, said she was the co-ordinator of women's activities during the period where no other women entered this profession.

"This was the darkest era where a large number of IDPs and their issues erupted. I had to handle IDPs issues in Puttalam voluntarily, discussing with the affected women and inducing women to join social work," Majeed said.

"Being a woman, I understood all domestic problems faced by women. I have organized a number of grassroots programs in villages. The awareness programs which I organized in the village paved the way in forming a number of women organizations," she said.

Majeed said her main concern was the resettlement of the IDPs regardless of race, religion and attending to humanitarian issues which was focused through the Community Trust Fund.