The Sri Lanka Council for the Blind Web Site

1^st June 2016,

Mr. Tuan Rushdi,

Founder,

HI eMarketing Solutions.

Dear Mr. Rushdi,

Appreciation of voluntary Service

On behalf of the executive committee & all vision impaired persons attached to the Sri Lanka Council for the Blind, I’m writing to express our deepest appreciation for the service you rendered by designing and maintaining free of charge the SLCB web site: www.slcblind.org

Your pro bono work has given us a creative, unique & visually appealing web site which is accessible to vision impaired users;  We trust you will continue to support us in the future too.

Thank you once again.

Sincerely,

Shalika Karunarathna

Hony. Secretary

Sri Lanka Council for the Blind

Workshop in Disability Rights

Disability Organization Joint Front of Sri Lanka organized a workshop to educate people with disabilities about human rights of people with disabilities and to discuss the new government laws that affect them. As the umbrella organization for the Disabled Persons Organization (DPOs) in Sri Lanka, DOJF provides a great support for us in national level policy and advocacy matters. The workshop was held at “Help Age Head Office” in Wijerama, starting from 9.30a.m to 4.00p.m.

Education, health, transport, employment and Sports of people with disabilities were some main areas discussed in the workshop. The benefits of inclusion over special education and need of social inclusion for students with disabilities were also main topics discussed in the workshop.  Many personal experiences were shared among participators about above areas. The United Nation Disability Rights were also discussed with the history that builds up the current situation. Adding the nature of the disability to the proposed electronic national identity card was one of the main suggestions made by participators. There was an open invitation by DOJF leaders to all educated young personalities to join with DOJF to win disability rights for our community.

You can visit the official web site of DOJF for more details on http://www.ptoidsl.org