.: CLEAN OUR CITY TO KEEP US HEALTHY

Sri Mimukthi Women Organization Organized city cleaning programme will be held on 5th June 2008 gathering more than 2000 women and men in the Negombo District,

This programme will be starting at 9.30 am from Negombo main city.

Doctors, Public Health Inspectors, School goers, members from Sri Vimukthi Women Organization and some other partner organization’s members including labours from Negombo Municiple Council will be joined with this programme.

We would like to invite all kinds of people, who love this country to join with this programme.

ABOUT NAFSO

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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CLEAN OUR CITY TO KEEP US HEALTHY