FoG Graduations - June/ July 2014

The courses delivered by the Foundation of Goodness aim to provide the skills that rural children and youth need to be able to lift themselves out of poverty and to find careers or employment in various sectors whether locally, in Colombo or internationally, while also empowering students to give back to those in need through community aid work, which they organise and fund-raise for as a team.

The Foundation of Goodness has been providing high quality learning facilities in Seenigama beginning in 1999 from the small community centre in the grounds of Founder/ Chief Trustee, Kushil Gunasekera's ancestral home in the village and then growing and expanding when the MCC Centre of Excellence was established after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Too often, villagers lack the opportunity to explore avenues for employment because of a lack of training facilities, exorbitant costs or long travel distances that make attendance impractical and expensive.

Many of the courses we offer have a six month duration so mid year finds us engulfed in a rush of graduations, and this year has been no different. The students from our Women’s Enterprise and Empowerment Centre courses all graduated along with the students from our Business Skills courses, IT courses and Language classes.

The Computer Training courses graduated a total of 156 students.

The Women’s Enterprise courses graduated a total of 172 students.

The language classes and vocational training courses also held graduation ceremonies:

We, at the Foundation of Goodness, are incredibly proud to have been a part of the education and empowerment of these students and our greatest hope as they graduate is that the knowledge they have received from us will help them procure a good standard of living in the future. We wish them all the very best.

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” - Oprah Winfrey

20th August 2014