.: Steering Committee Meeting

NAFSO monthly steering committee meeting

NAFSO monthly steering committee meeting was held on 03.01.2019 at the NAFSO office with the participation of all district coordinators of the 15 districts. Financial committee was held in the morning to discuss the financial matters of the last December.

Program meeting was then held with the participation of head office staff and district staff. Program coordinators at the head office presented the project progress and district staff contributed with their views on their involvement and the difficulties that they experience at field level. Youth and Disaster Management programs was given priority due to the recent floods that experienced in the Northers Province.

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NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. ...NAFSO has helped a fishing community to take legal action against a proposal to build a five-star hotel on a mangrove where fish spawn."We are not against hotels, because they bring tourism and income. But 3,000 families and 15,000 fishermen use this lagoon and all of them could be affected by the developments. Only 200 would be employed by the hotel. The lagoon is our mother, and we must protect her." Jude Preman Fernando, local fisherman. At the present situation we are continuing our campaign with small scale fishermen to urge the government to take legal action against Destructive Fishing Practices around the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. View my complete profile

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Steering Committee Meeting