Leadership and IT training for Northern students

A workshop jointly organized by Microsoft Sri Lanka and the Tarunyata Hetak organization on the initiative of Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa to provide leadership and Information Technology training for students in the killinochchi and Mullaitivu districts was held at the National Youth Services Council, Maharagama recently.

Tharunyata Hetak Organization chairman and Hambantota district parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa handing over a certificate to a youth who participated in the leadership training programme. Resident Manager of Microsoft Sri Lanka Sriyan de Silva and ANCL Editorial Director Seelarathna Senerath were also present.

A batch of 185 students from Killinochchi, Mullaitivu and Thunukkai attended the workshop. The three day workshop was themed “Let us rebuild our society through leadership and information technology training”.

Resident Manager Microsoft Sri Lanka Sriyan de Silva said: “Opportunities are available to forge new limits and engage in many activities through technology. Time has come to develop the country by utilizing new concepts of the young generation.

“Our intention is to develop all parts of the country with the contribution of technology.

We have organized this event to impart and transfer new technological knowledge”, he said.

ANCL Editorial Director and senior journalist Seelarathna Senarath commending the effort of Microsoft Sri Lanka and Tharunyata hetak organization for giving a helping hand for the students to learn information technology said students will step up to schools with a laptop soon.

“President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well as MP Namal Rajapaksa serve the people despite their ethnicities”.

“Everybody should get together to learn well forgetting the bitter history with terror and difficulties. Jaffna was well known for intellectuals in the past, he said.

Mullaitivu Zonal Education Director K.Wardaraja Murthi said nothing is possible without technological knowledge.

Thunukkai Zonal Education Director Malithi Weniton said the workshop lured the students who paid a least interest on IT to learn and produce better results. She thanked organizers for giving opportunities to let the students to learn IT and leadership training through the programme.

The students visited the parliamentary complex, temple trees, presidential secretariat and Dehiwala Zoological garden. They watched a movie at a leading cinema theatre in Colombo and attended a dinner with MP Namal Rajapaksa.