Permaculture Designer, Ecological farming Consultant and Researcher

                                                                                                                       

                                                                 Coordinate - WWOOFLK -wwooflk.org

                                      Community team leader, Eco Community - ecocommunitylk.org                                Permaculture Designer, Ecological farming Consultant and  Researcher

Educational Qualifications 

G.C.E ( O/L ) Examination

 G.C.E ( A/L ) Examination ( Agri science )

Other Skills

 I have a skill in typing both Sinhala and English with computer literacy.

Experiences

01.       I worked as an Agriculture Instructor in PASASA institute-    Navalapitiya – Sri Lanka in organic farming, “nawa kakulama ‘system for a period of 03 year.

02.       I have been working for 10 year in Devasarana Development Centre as a Field officer of Community Development programme which Mobilizing Poor Rural people.

03.       I have Experience in working as a voluntary activist in youth programme of the national co- operation board (Sri Lanka) for a period of 05 year.

04.        I followed a training course on HIV /AIDS and  Sexually Transmitted  Diseases  which was implanted by the Sexually Transmitted  Diseases  unit  of the health Ministry of Sri Lanka  and took part with the survey on the situation  of  the sex workers  in   Sri Lanka  which  was conducted by  the health ministry.

05.       I have worked as a trainer of Martial Arts in joining with All   Ceylon Wushu and Qi-gon federation.

06.       I have two computer training certificates of MS Office and Graphic Designing.

07.      I followed Zero budget farming, grading and farming exchange programm one month in  India.

08.       I have been coordinating Information Technology Unit (IT) in Devasarana                     Development Centre since 2006 to 2012.

09.        I have been working as a consultant about Organic Farming in C.B.Os and        NGOs (especially rural areas).  And also I have been holding an Organic farm              in my house.

10.    I have been Experience in working as a voluntary activist in youth   programme, wood land and organic farming and learn some premaculture garden, maintain the milk cows of the scargillhouse   (united kingdom) for a             period of 05 month. scargillhouse.  North Yorkshire.  United Kingdom.

11.      I have been Experience in biodayanice two week on bottem village wwoofing there week Isle of Erraid in Scotland. http://www.erraid.com/

12.       I have been Experience in co – worker on biodynamic farm, ( there have grading and farming )   05 month in pennine camphill   community in United Kingdom.

13.        I have been organic farming cultural experience two month in South Korea on 2011.

  

Motivating to Ecological farming

Both my father and Mother are engaged in agricultural activities and we prefer to test new things. When I was a little child I liked bees much and at the age of 13, I started bee culture in my home garden. when I was at the same age , my mother was sent to Thailand,by the government department of agriculture and another N.G.O, as she had maintained a successful home garden of "Gotukola "anutritious leave enriched with vitamins and other nutrients. She was sent there for an additional training. This encouraged me to start a home garden.

I start a home garden that time I have five cows and 10 hens .I was the first place at the electorate level for my home grading and farming, at the students' home garden competition held in 1992 my home garden was selected as the best home garden in the katugampola electorate.  I also won the prizes for the best student home gardener in the province and divisional secretariat area. By that time, I was a student. I continued home gardening. Then again in 1993 my home garden becomes the first at the provincial level students" home garden contest. For this I received a certificate and prizes from Mr. D. B Wijetunga, The president of Sri- Lanka, by that time. During the same period, I participated in training on milking cows, mushroom cultivation. Later, while I was doing my A\ Ls, I started growing mushrooms and anthuriums in my home garden. I worked as an Agriculture Instructor in PASASA institute-    Navalapitiya – Sri Lanka in organic farming, “nawa kakulama ‘system for a period of 03 year.

After that I joined the organic, at the age of 22. At the same time I got another job opportunity to work as an education officer for a co- operative society. But I selected to work with the rural community. That is because; I too belong to a rural peasant family.

My great interest is in Ecological agriculture, I have worked in Pasesa in as a trainer of ecological agriculture. I'm also involved in ecological agriculture practices in my personal life. I have an organic home garden in my own and looking after that is my biggest hobby at the moment I am helping promoting organic home gardening among them. 

Presently I have been working in a wwooflk and eco community (Sri Lanka) since 2010. We are launching a Rural Development Project here.  My main responsibilities are developing practical and theoretical knowledge for the budding Organic Farming Community in the Sri Lankan countryside. I come from a rural family background in a country where traditional farming practices are still widely in use. Many of the principles of organic farming are among these techniques passed down for generations. I have also studied agriculture extensively in school and in practice. In the eco community I work as the coordinator of our outreach program, where we visit rural families and aid them in their aspirations for sustainable and regenerative agriculture. I have also instituted a reading club for school children with the aim of teaching them about the benefits of these farming practices among other activities such as music, sport, cultural exchange and environmental awareness.

Eco community-

An eco community is creating a bio-diversity, Ecological farming, permaculture, biodynamic, alternative energy, self sustainable, low impact, Eco-tourist Community education Centre Thennakongama in Sri lanka. We are young volunteer organization going on self-sufficiency sustainable  living with Community since 2010.

More - Ecocommunitylk.org

Ecological model farm- 

One of sustainable project on Eco community is launching 2012 August. At this moment the ecological model farm which was started on October 2012. have half acres lake, six mango trees, ten cows, two mud houses where one of them having four rooms, 2 acres paddy field, 22 coconut trees, two water catchment places, two small rocks, a cowshed, 20 perch home garden, Harachi graden and a resource centre.

When developing the modal farm the labor and the resources are taken from the volunteers as the volunteer service. For the maintenance of eco community, the service is taken from the wwoofers and volunteers in order to get the maximum output to the farm with their various knowledge and experience from different countries

More - http://www.ecocommunitylk.org/p/home.html

WWOOFLK 

WWOOFLK is a group of young volunteers who are interested and working in organic agriculture in Sri Lanka. We wish to provide opportunities for volunteers all around the world (WWOOFers) to learn about organic farming, food and ways of life in Sri Lanka. In doing so we hope to bring people together in sharing common human values and thinking.
WWOOFLK also seek to provide helping hands to farmers in Sri Lanka who engage themselves in and promote organic agriculture within the country.WWOOFLK is an exchange programme to volunteer help in exchange for food, accommodation and learning.

More - http://www.wwooflk.org/p/home.html

Share to knowledge with other

I have the following skills and knowledge to share with other.

1. How to maintain a small farm or home garden.

2. organic agriculture/ organic farming with new technologies.

3. implement trainings for multi-national/ different students.

3. Animal husbandry methods (keeping bees, cattle (milk cows.)

4. Mushroom cultivation and Anthurium cultivation, catching bees.

5. Martial arts and sports.

6. Computer literacy.

7. Biogas technologies.

Future hope

1.  Preparing a suitable practical process to reduce rural poverty. Preparing a programmer            to promote the social and economical standard of the poor rural families by                          strengthening the Independent women Activists Committee is functioning presently.

2.       Preparing volunteer programmes to give knowledge and experience for the young people who are in the fields related to Eco community organization. By these the opportunity      is given for both Sri- Lankan and foreign youth to share their experiences and ideas. Especially the youth from foreign countries get the opportunity to learn about the society and the culture of Sri- Lanka.

3.         To Develop the farm, garden In the premises of Eco community and to build it up as a resource centre for farming and other agricultural activities.

4.      Further it is expected to provide the theoretical and the practical knowledge on the alternative agriculture, to the communities of these totalities .It is believed that, by preparing their home gardens according to the knowledge they gained, they would be able to promote the standards of their economy and social knowledge.