NAFSO is waiting to implement a new rehabilitation project
which is called Economic Rehabilitation Program among women headed families.
This project was planned to implement especially in Trincomali, Betticaloa and
Mannar district. Every basic preparation was completed to be a reality in the
relevant fields. So, NAFSO organized a
workshop to introduce about the new project for responsible pilots in district
level. According to that the
acquainting workshop was held in
Chinthana Training Center at Nainamadama on 14 and 15 of March 2012. District
coordinators as well as their community facilitators in above districts
participated to the workshop. Miss. Geetha Lakmini, Priyankara costa, Anthony
Jesudasan, Laveena Hasanthi and Praeep wanigasuriya also participated as NAFSO
secretariat.
District participants were well educated about the project contains
, goals, strategies, time
frame and other important components .
District community facilitators have already
been identified to implement the
project in the field well. So, we succeeded in providing better understanding about the project for field activators and plan some necessary
basic preparation on this project. As the important thing, we identified major
criteria to select the beneficiaries and responsible officials who should be
nominated for the selecting committee with the agreement of district
activators. According to that, some
basic agreements between district activators and NAFSO secretariat were singed
on this project. 
So, some basic arrangements in the project are being prepared
in district level discussing with field
staffs, other relevant persons, Government officials, religion leaders, and
community leaders. This is not a first approach to the women headed families
who are living in the North and East in the country. NAFSO has experiences
working with women headed families as well as Internal Displaced People (IDPs)
as overall war effected people in the North and East especially. So, NAFSO has experience and relevant information about the
women headed families to implement the project strongly. 
We are willing to assist more than 1500 women headed families
through this project. Specific objective of this project is that Economic
rehabilitation for poverty alleviation and food security among 1500 women
headed families, fish and agriculture communities based in Trincomalee and
extended to neighboring Batticaloa and to Mannar districts in a post crisis
situation. So, we are hoping to be reality of this project in the district
field as a collaborative effort soon. 
