5. Lets define “Education” Act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability. The process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Derived from “educere “ means "bring out", "bring forth what is within", "bring out potential"
6. Career Option C Career Option D Career Option B Career Option E Career Option A brings
7. Need to focus Improve and develop the life and well being Empowering people to make a significant contribution to their social and economic development and to rebuilding their homeland Sri Lankans comprise India’s second largest community. 65000 inhabitants in 133 camps and 40000 outside camps. Population is young and many have spent most of their lives in exile. On arrival most population were illiterate.
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9. Education Opportunities University of Madras offer free distance higher education in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Five self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu to admit students under the management quota through TNEA. Distance education program provided by the Open University under DU , IGNOU etc The government reserved 40 seats in engineering , 20 in medicine, 10 in agriculture in colleges and 40 seats in polytechnics for students.
10. Vocational Trainings Agricultural research farms which train people. Transferring fishing net manufacture skills from older generation to young generation like you. Tailoring training centres: the trained people meet the needs of inhabitants and sell to local markets. Gem-cutting teaching centre where a hundred youth have learnt to cut and polish semiprecious stones; some have set up their own businesses, while others have found private employment.
11. Career Opportunities Youth labour cooperatives which have won contracts to help construct the Konkan railway. Female income-generation projects making coir ropes and brushes. Assistance to set up small tailoring units, carpentry units and shops. Implements for earthwork , carpentry, masonry and painting buildings are also provided.
32. Current Status Almost all children attends school in India. 20,000 school-going children among Sri Lankan community. There are currently 621 students among you in universities in the state. Education expenses assisted and the university students are obliged to provide tuition to other students as well. A large number of paramedics now serve fellow people and also work in government primary health centres. 2,000 people now work in the construction industry. NGOs have held exhibitions of clothing produced by people in several states in order to promote sales.
33. Resources OfERR with major priority on education. http://www.oferr.org/ University of Madras - http://www.unom.ac.in/ TNEA - http://www.annauniv.edu/ Garment district of Coimbatore Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service - http://www.jrs.net/ UNHCR - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
34. Reflections from past Nagaraj, the son of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees A Karuppaiah and Annakilli, who arrived in India from Vavuniya in the early 1990s. Agaram Foundation converting his real aspiration to become a doctor into reality for him. Ramanathan, who is now staying with his aged father at the Trichy camp, works in a provision store. He is now pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.
