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two older sisters," Peter adds.
When the program ends in
January, the Sri Lankans will be
putting their experience to work as
volunteers for non-governmental
agencies (NGOs) in Sri Lanka.
Champika works for the Association
of Village Reawaking in the
Aratnaprura District around
Hambantota in the south of the
island. The Association carries out
nutrition programs for pregnant
women and young mothers, health
projects and environmental projects.
She'll be working with poor people,
many of whom have low incomes
and no jobs (the good jobs are
working for the government).
Liyanage works for Youth
Enterprises and Information
Centre. He comes from the dry
zone of the eastern part of the island,
an area that must carefully make use
of the available water that arrives in
monsoon season. Over the years
farmers developed an irrigation
system but attempts to increase
output in the 1970s and 1980s caused
deforestation, silted up the water
tanks and drove farmers to use
expensive fertilizers instead of the
rotational cropping system which had
developed over long years in the
region.
Liyanage will help with the
fisheries of the region's coastal
villages, as well as home gardening,
a small loans credit program to help
people start their own businesses,
skills training programs and health
education programs.
Both are volunteers but they hope
that their international experience
and the English language they learn
while in Canada, will help them get
better jobs down the line.
Arreola has a background in
environmental studies and hopes to
go into international development
work. Sinclair is in the final year in
education studies with a minor in
political science. He hopes to work
overseas in education.
But as they go on to their days in
other jobs in other parts of the world,
the young people will always
remember their days in Ontario.
"Once we leave we'll have parents
in Clifford the rest of our lives,"
Sinclair says. And that, in the final
outcome, may become the valuable
legacy of the exchange.0