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Agricultural mission to Sri Lanka,
a JDCSI Project
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Uniting Church of Australia to send
its first agricultural missionaries
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One of Sri Lanka’s well known folk and pop singer Nithi Kanagaratnam and his wife Selvi now Australian citizens visited their homeland recently at the invitation of the Rt Rev Dr Daniel Thiagarajah to see for themselves and examine the possibilities of being involved in a major rural community based agricultural development programme. They are also interested in helping with developing our health services especially at the two major mission hospitals at Manipay and Inuvil. |
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During their stay in Jaffna they visited the Green Memorial Hospital, the Jaffna College School of Agriculture and also saw for themselves areas in the peninsula for appropriate development. |
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Mr Kanagaratnam’s rich agricultural experience in Sri Lanka comes from his work as Deputy Director of Research in a Karadiyan Aru project in Batticalao ( 1979 - 1981). He is now a lecturer at Victoria University in Melbourne. He will be sponsored to Sri Lanka as an agricultural missionary by the Uniting Church of Australia following the traditions of people who came from the US as medical and educational missionaries. They will be the first such missionaries to come from Australia to serve with the Jaffna Diocese of Church of South India and will certainly blaze a new trail. |
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They are being popularly supported not only by the Sri Lankan Diaspora in Australia but also by some organizations associated with and interested in agricultural and rural development.
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