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bHELP-O NEWS LETTER
MAY VOLUME -2010
Lead Story
Galle city upgraded as Clean and Green Bio Energy Cityand there is a committee for committed to that purpose.
Galle Municipal Council and HELP-O started joint effortfor reach this goal and there are many stakeholders for this.Through this concept Galle every major places will go to
environment friendly biogas and expect to reduce themethane as emission reduce of the cit .
I n s i d e
Make, Galle Clean and Green
Bio Energy city
People to People support
New turning point fromTangalle prison
Pollution to solution Waste
management program
CITYNET, CMC and HELP-O
Golden moments from history
Identifying the needs of the
Thalapitya village by PRA
Program
Increase the capacity of staff of
HELP-O
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L a t e s t u pd a t e o f U N D P S G P / G E FP r o g r a m
The organization is one of leading
organization implementing many
Environment Conservation
programs. With the aid of UNDP
SGP/ GEF organization started
newly program to construct waste
management program in
Trincomalee Naval Base, Tangalle
Prison. Till this moment able to
handover the biogas units in
Trincomalee Naval Camp workingwell. The latest update is finished
the all construction of the biogas
units.
On the month of May conducted
the two awareness programs for
Prison officers and for the
prisoners. Conducted an extra
program for prisoners because they
are using this basically they should
get good knowledge about this unit
and how it function in properly.
Now we need to officially handover
this biogas unit for prison and we
provided one mobile cart for them
to carry the waste easily. This is our
first biogas unit that we
implemented in side of the Prison.
Bio gas will unit soon handover for
the prison.
Totally finished Biogas unit of the Tangalle
prison Participated prisoners for the
workshop that conducted by HELP-O
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W a s t e M a n a g e me n t P r o g r a m C I TYN E T &C o l o mb o M C
Colombo is the capital city of the Sri
Lanka and it is well populated and heartof the economy. The waste collection is
very high on the city and it is very hard
work to manage and there are many
government institutions for manage that
waste and for care this problem.
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC)is
one of largest Municipal Council of the
country and CITYNET is facilitating
many cities for waste management and under many themes and provide
necessary assistance for them and its located in Japan.
HELP-O, CMC and CITYNET implementing join program for Gothami Pura
for community biogas unit. This is one of place highly waste generate and
expect to conduct some awareness programs for them. Before we implement
this program we had a discussion with CMC commissioner.
S u s t a in s o l u t io n f o r M o n a c o V il l a g eN e g a m b o
The Monaco village situated in Negambo it is an
island and those resident people are suffering
serious problem that is their toilet pits overflow
every time because water level and ground level is
same.
CITYNET is the leading organization and network
that provide much assistance for their member
cities and CITYNET sponsored for this program.
Other stakeholders are HELP-O and NegamboMunicipal Council. At the present time Municipal
side already done the survey and the technical
planning for this program and very soon expect to
start this program. Awareness programs are one of
main activity of the program.
For the first time in Sri
Lanka we aspire to use
the Eco Tanks for this
purpose and we connect
one biogas dome for
generate the biogas from
it and sediment goes to
eco tanks. After filtering
and cleaning from theEco Tanks water goes to
natural environment and
it is harmless. Through
this way we can solve
this massive problem.
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M a k e G a l l e , C l e a n & G r e e n B io E n e r g yC it y P r o g r a m
What is Bio Energy city .?
Bio energy city is a model city with biogas units in every major place of the
city and using only biogas for majority for their daily needs and waste
generation is low. On the city major places like Hospitals, Schools, Prison,
Navy Camps, Police, Hotels, Restaurants. This city has education center to
learn about Bio Energy city.
What is the necessity to implement this concept ?
Clean & Green concept is world one of famous and effective one for
environment conservation. From city level many cities and countries
implementing this concept and them already achieve to that goal. But HELP-O
determined to change this concept and develop this concept and changed
Make Galle, Clean & Green Bio Energy City for the Galle city.
Because HELP-O implemented first biogas unit in
Hospital Asia that is Karapitiya teaching hospital with
the support of USEAP. On second time activated
biogas unit for Galle Municipal Council with the
support of USAID from those programs could able to
achieve much things in short time.
After that implemented community biogas units with
UNDP and Central Environment Authority (CEA)
PTREEP Project. From this project constructed 09
biogas units and 08 are community based and other is
for Mahamodara Teaching Hospital biogas. Even
Southern Province Development Authority
(SPDA), Practical Action, Science and
Technology Ministry (Vidatha) also
implemented many domestic biogas units.On the other hand many organizations
implemented biogas units in various sectors
and there are many biogas units in the city
and we expect to survey that. Those reasons
we deicide to go for this step.
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How this going on ?
For implement this program in sustain way we established a committee with
involve of the major stakeholders of the city. The key point of the committee is
the Galle Mayor and Secretarial works and coordination works by the HELP-O
Central Environment Authority (CEA),
Naval Camp, Galle Prison, Chamber of
Commerce, Deputy Post Master General,
Galle Police, Galle Port Authority,
Department of Fisheries of Galle, S chools,
Hospitals, Rotary Club, Community,
Southern Province Development
Authority, Urban Development Authority,
Water Board are few members of this
committee . These are active committee and gather on ones a month and
discuss about the progress of the program.
The main object is to monitor the process and encourage the people for reach
to this. From every institution they try to reach to this goal and gave highest
publicity for this program. As one of the main objective of the committee to
make a survey of the city about total constructed biogas units and guide and
monitor the biogas unit process of the city. Before construct biogas unit should
approve by this committee and they monitor this continue. Final objective of
the committee Make Galle, Clean and Green Bio Energy City
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G a l l e , G r e e n B io E n e r g y C it y pr o g r a m
Our organization expects envisage
Make Galle city Clean and Green
Bio Energy City while on thisjourney we met one milestone with
USAID South Asia Initiative for
Energy (SARI Energy Program)
and got support for construct 05
community biogas units.
We organized a meeting with the
participation of all main
stakeholders of the city for
establish a committee for monitor and evaluate this program as well as the other
biogas programs of the city. We coordinated this program with the combination
of Galle Municipal Council (GMC) and there were for objectives of that program
and mention below.
Make Galle City in Clean and Green Bio Energy Model city To conduct a survey to find out about the availability of constructed total
biogas units in the city
Establish a strong monitoring committee Make an action plan for make Galle Clean and Green Bio Energy Model
city
The mayor conducted the welcome speech and he explained that from the
Municipal side give full of contribution for this program to success and for Make
Galle Clean and Green Bio Energy City.
As first step decided the places for construct the biogas units. Proposed places
are
1. Waluwatta2. Siyambalagahawatta3. Magalle4. Sapumal Pedesa5. Muncipal Dumping yard6. Mahaliyawatta
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While of this time many participants express their ideas about this program and
they appreciate this work and effort of the Municipal and HELP-O
Mr. Ashoka Siriwardana Postmaster
General Southern Province
From the beginning I was involve to this
when I was in Galle Municipal council as a
municipal commissioner and this program
has many benefits. On that time waste
collection was 50 tons per day and that
reduced for 20 tons per day as one of reasons
of the biogas program. I proposed strong monitoring committee for implement
those programs and goals. Some times from the municipal side we have to
follow the strict rules and legal actions for achieve this goal. Through this
committee we need to make a big support and push for community and
private sector to implement their waste management plan properly.
Mr. Pallethanna Chief Jailor Galle Prison
I believe this is a good effort for minimize the
waste of the city as one of main places of waste
generation of the city is Prison. We would like
to implement this kind of unit inside of the
prison and expect to get the people who
resident near to prison and expect to give thebiogas for them.
Mrs. K. Chandralatha Chief Treasure of
Walauwatta People movement branch
We could able to get one community biogas
and it functions well and we could able to get
Rs.24, 000 from the environment fund. Even
we collect the polythene and plastic too and wesell the organic fertilizer. From community
level this program is success and people get
more benefits.
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E n v ir o n me n t C o n s e r v a t io n I n t r o d u c in gG r e e n C e r t if ic a t e
Introducing new turning point for
Environment Conservation by HELP-O because we are planning to Make,
Galle Clean and Green Bio Energy
City under this concept we introduce
the Green Certificate for every
beneficiary like for Hotels, Hospitals,
Schools, Domestic Level.
We expect to encourage that biogas
use effort to protect the environment
because from their places MethaneGas emission to air has been stopped.
This certificate will issue from the
committee which monitor and
dedicate to Make, Galle Clean &
Green Bio Energy City. This is
added advantage for them especially
for hotels institutes because from thatthey can show that they dedicate to
protect the environment. Through
this certificate they can use this
Green world to their places like
Green Hospital, Green Hotel, Green
Prison, Green Restaurants are few
names for them and from our side we
gave maximum publicity for them
and their eco friendly products too.
From the committee we always
monitor about their behavior with
Environment Protection with the
recommendation of them we gave
this certificate for beneficiaries.
G o l d en M o me n t s f r o m H is t o r y
This is a new article that shows
about latest update of previously
constructed biogas units. From
this can easily understand about
what is the current situation of
those constructed biogas units.
Karapitiya Teaching Hospital
biogas unit is the first biogasunit that constructed by the
USEAP in 2004. Up today this is
working now without any
failure. Hospital can get more
than Rs.35, 000 profits from this
unit.
This is a good example thatwaste management can
implement in Hospital too. Now
this hospital became
Environment friendly hospital
and stopped the methane gas
emission to air.
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Special milestones of the program
1. Within the city need to minimize the waste and implement proper system
for manage it.
2. Good environment conservation process with involvement of allstakeholders
3. Biogas is a good alternative solution for waste problem and for energy
problem as well as for climate change
4. Only municipal cant mange the waste and need an integrated process of
Public Private Partnership.
5. Use Envelops to promote this concept to outside use a message in envelops.
6. Strong committee for monitor and for evaluates this program in future.
7. Chairman of the committee is the Hon. Mayor of the Galle
8. Secretarial works wil l cover by the HELP-O
9. Major stakeholders of the committee are Galle Municipal Council and
Central Environment Authority
10. Before construct any biogas should approval from this committee should
be obtained
11. Make Galle, Clean and Green Bio Energy City
12. Next meeting on 01 June 2010 in Galle Municipal Council
A w a r e n es s P r o g r a m f o r S c h o o l C h il d r e nF o r b e t t e r t o mo r r o w
The organization is conducting programs
for aware the school children. In this month
conducted a program for Sangamitta Girls
College program about Climate change,
Waste Management and Biogas benefits.
For this program children as well as
teachers were participated. After this
program decided to do many environment
programs with involve of all.
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One is to organize an art contest and
select the best arts and second again draw
those arts in the school wall. The second
thing is to celebrate the environment day
and plant trees inside of the school are
few decisions that were taken after that
program. The benefits of the biogas and
how it functions and what are the row
materials for that. How this effect globally
and locally and what is the effect for
environment are few themes were discussed. This is a necessity that we have
taken because those kids are the key point to aware the parents and they will
responsible of the tomorrow world.
On the other hand we discussed about
POP gas and its bad effects to
environment and for the people important
of the proper waste management and
benefits. Finally we aware them how as
school children encourage the parents to
protect the environment and aware them.
This program was very important for
them because HELP-O constructed a
biogas unit for the School and they
needed added information about this process and we helped them to fill thatgap.
A g r e a t h e l p f r o m C o mmu n it y t oC o mmu n it y
Due to heavy rain on last 17th & 18th May
2010 many villages of Galle district were
under water & it was badly effect to the
community branches of our peoplesmovement also. Many people lost
everything from this disaster. After aware
about this disaster by all of the members of
Walawwaththa branch talk each other to
take immediate action to help their
neighbors who became victims of this natural disaster.
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The special thing was the community of the
village became front to help their neighbors
who were affected from the disaster. As per
their financial ability they decided to
distribute bread for breakfast & Rice &curry for lunch. They prepared this food
from their own hands with the great hope to
help them from their own funds of the
peoples movement branch of HELP-O.
They have distributed food for 15families of the village, around 60 people.
From them 8 families were members of the Walauwaththa branch peoples
movement. All the expense for this program was beard by walauwaththa
peoples movement branch fund. It was great example for all community to
help each other when need help in such type of unavoidable disastersituations.
Helping people to people
From this good experience they show to
others that about their strength and when
their people is in trouble this strong
peoples movement can help them. When
outside support was came to their village
that was not necessary.
On that time and they turn back those
foods for other villages affected people and
they said we have the peoples movement
and they provided the assistance first. This
is the power of the people and we have
planned to establish a disaster fund for
provide this kind of assistance as quickly
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S u ppo r t f o r t h e F l o o d e f f e c t e d pe o pl e
Within the month Sri Lankafaced big tragedy that is the
heavy monsoon and flood.
Many people lost their many
assert from this flood and
needed quick assistant for
them. HELP-O organization
has been affected from this
flood too but had a quick
program for provide assistant
for the people.
For this problem we have
cognizance short term, mid
term and long term activities
for solve this problem. As
quick assistant we have been
provided the breakfast for
them because on that time
their no accesses for them formake foods in their houses. As
second stage HELP-O was
seeking funds and outside
support for provides assistance
for them.
This program was
implemented with the
partnership of the People
movement and we got theirhelp for distribute those goods
for the people.
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C o n g r e s s W a l a u wa t t a P eo p l e s M o v eme n tB r a n c h - Th e v o ic e o f pe o pl e
Walawwaththa branch, one branch of HELP-O
peoples movement in Galle district hasorganized their monthly congress meeting on
15th of May 2010 at 3.00 pm in their
community center in Walawwaththa. They
have invited Help-O Chairmen Mr. Chatura
weliwitiya, HELP-O Executive Director Mrs.
Abewickrama, HELP-O Treasure Dr. Jayasiri
& HELP-O Micro Finance staff for this occasion. The Treasure of the Society
welcomes all the guests firstly & she presented the past performances of the
society to the audience.
In her speech she presented the history of their branch & their future plans which
they going to implement in future. On this speech she aware the audience about
their transactions also as the transparency take much important place to go
forwards with well performances.
It was special program as the community has invited for
Ayurvedic Doctor who is in director board of HELP-O with
the hope of getting medical advice also. The community
asked many questions regarding their health problems &
they got some solutions for it.
Finally they were lucky to have a free community medical
campaign for their village. It was great opportunity for
them as many of the members to aware about their health.
From this program people attention and interest was
increase for this program because through this program they can get many
things for their lives.
The HELP-O chairmen Mr. Chatura weliwitiya
describe about the important of conducting the
meetings regularly & special thanks for theircreativeness to organize this program with
various activities. Future more he expressed idea
to organized community based activities such as
Shramadana campaigns or any other construction
works by participate all community other than
Micro credit programs.
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Mrs. Abeywickrama was aware the community
about importance of understanding childrens
mentality in her speech. As many members were
mothers all of them were happy with that speech
also. Then she told the strength of the unity and
she got example when disaster comes people can
give some AID from within their village just like
you have done in past heavy monsoon time.
S pe c ia l A c t iv it ie s o f t h e B a n d u g o d aP e o pl e M o v eme n t B r a n c h
The Bandugoda branch which is one branch of
HELP-O peoples movement has organized a New
Year Festival Program on 1st of May 2010. All the
Members as well as other people of the village also
participated on that program. The program was
started by lightning the traditional oil lamp by the
chief guests. The whole program organized by the
grass root level community and their strength.
The agriculture officer of the village, the HELP-O
officers& the small group treasures of the Bandugoda
branch lighted the oil lamp by their own hands by
wishing the success of the program as well as for the
branch future also.
There were many items organized for this festival.
Running competitions, Musical chair program, Rope
games were organized for the members as well as
other community of the village. The Fancy dress parade program was much
attracted by all villages as it was participate by the members of the branch.
They have organized balloon games, lime & Spoon
race for children also. All the villages were happy &
share there joy together through this program as it
was organized by Bandugoda branch members with
contain much activities for adults as well as children
also. This is one of good point for to increase their
mutual understanding and the interrelationships.
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N e w mil e s t o n e f o r Th a l a pit iy a P e o p l eVil l a g e
With the hope of to identify a need of
established a new branch in Thalapitiya area in
Galle district. HELP-O Micro finance Unit held
a Partcipatory Rural Approach (PRA) program
on 1st of May 2010. The entire Micro Finance
unit staff as well as Village Officer of the
Thalapitiya area & community of the village
also participated on this program. The
objective of the program is to identify the grass
root level needs and to provide necessary help for them because their
infrastructure facilities are not well developed and they need out side support
for develop their living standard that is whywe consider conducting this kind of program
for them.
The main idea of this program is to identify the
needs of the village through the ideas of the
villages. Social mapping, Wen Diagrom, Daily
Routing of Men & Women were some tools
which we used to identify the needs of the
villages. The villages contributed much for the
program & finally they identified the
Child misbehavior is the main threaten for the village as they are the newgeneration in future.
The unemployment & uncertain of their carriers was the next problem forthem.
Third was the shelter problem as many of them didnt have anypermanent house to live.
Waste Management Problem and lack of spaces to dump the waste Lack of education about health Lack of knowledge to develop their self employment No market for their products
Most of the people share their ideas with us in happy faces as earlier no body has
implemented like this program for their village. Through this program we could
able to make more strong this people and finally got an idea what are the
services they need quickly and we are working on it.
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S k il l d ev el o pme n t e f f o r t o f H E L P -OO f f i c e r s
On last 22nd of May 2010 we
conducted a work shop for all ourstaff. This was organized with the
purpose of aware all staff about Micro
Finance program in world acceptable
manner & to motivate all staff to work
& go ahead towards success of Micro
finance program as a one team.
Group discussion and activities are
regarding practical problems whichMicro Finance staff has to face when
they are working in field as well as
office environment. Through this
discussion they share their ideas with
all staff of HELP-O & it was nice
opportunity for all staff to express
their ideas regarding their field.
Discussions were regarding Micro finance &
community Finance to make sure for themabout differences & similarities about these
two concepts. Finally we able to identify the
Negative & Positive ideas Regarding field as
well as in office side from all staff & on this
exercise we able to take their opening to turn
that negative points in to positive side.
Mr. Chatura
welivitiya the
chairmen ofHELP-O & Ms.
Dulmini
Wickramasinghe
conducted the
program & there
were much
positive comments about organizing this work
shop. All participants highlighted the need of like
these programs to get a chance to share the ideas
with others in different environment. We able to
conduct this workshop with the support of
Fredskopeset (FK) as one of our Micro Finance
officer got chance to join with Fredskopeset
exchange program thorough Stromme Foundation
which is one of our
main donor
organizations of MicroFinance.
This was good
opportunity for
develop the skills of
the officers even this is
a big change for their
daily routine. One of
the positive outputs of
the program is divided
the responsibilities of
the MF field in proper
way and decided to
conduct this kind of
program more.
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A g r e a t h e l p f r o m P e o p l e s M o v e me n tb r a n c h e s t o S a ma g iw a t t a F l o o d A f f e c t e d
P e o p l e
The month of May monsoon badlyaffected Sri Lanka and Galle District.
Samgaiwatta badly affected by the
heavy monsoon. Samagiwaththa is one
branch of our peoples movement &
due to heavy rain on last 05th May this
village was under water & people was
helpless as this water came inside
their homes and people lost their every
thing from this disaster.Water remained until next day our
branch members of peoples movement came forward with the idea to help their
own family members of peoples movement. They visited the houses of victims
after one day of the disaster & conducted a need assessment program to identify
their needs in this emergency time. Through this need assessment program other
branch members could able to see the disasters by their own eyes.
After the need analyze survey other
branches of our peoples movement
like Kalupe, Walawwaththa,Chinagarden & Thotagamuwa started
to collect dry food from their branch
members and from non members &
they able to collect rice, Coconut,
Sugar & some soaps immediately.
They packet these items each one item
for each family & decided to distribute
these among Samagiwaththa members
on 8th May 2010 in HELP-O office premises. This is another good example for
people power this thing is much help for them because on that time they didntget any outside help form others.
Through this program the mutual understanding and the interrelations were
increased in better way. The members also expressed about their ideas about this
great effort and became to take necessary steps for stop this flood situation. Here
is mention below.
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Conduct cleaning program in village with the involve of the all people Increase the width of the Cannels of the village
It was really example, appreciate program as
the people of same status gave a helping hand
to same states community on this disaster
time. The entire program was coordinated by
the members of HELP-O peoples movement &
they distributed these all things which they
have collected by their own hand. All the
members of Samagiwaththa branch were
happy as they felt all members of other
branches are with them in their happiness time as well as sorrow times also.
Human & Environment Links Progressive Organization (HELP-O)
No. 364/18 A, Samagi Mawatha,Dangedara, Galle,
Sri Lanka
T.P Fax - ++94- 91- 4380121 / 226818
Email- helpogn@wow.lk
Web www.help-o.lk
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