The opening ceremony of the Ethera Sisu Diriya launched under the Mahajana Mehewara CSR drive of the People’s Bank was held at the Grand Navro Hotel in Matara recently.
The program has been launched by People’s Bank in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau, Ministry of Education, District Secretariats, Divisional Secretariats as a tribute to expatriates who toil tirelessly to earn foreign exchange to provide a better life for their loved ones and strengthen the economy of the country.
The program was introduced to assist their children’s education in the absence of a parent, thus ensuring the child’s development into a good citizen. Under this program, the details of those who leave for foreign employment will be shared with the People’s Bank by Foreign Employment Bureau and Development Officers in District Secretariats.
If such people have children of school age, the bank will coordinate with their teachers and school principals through the Ministry of Education to monitor the progress of those children.
This will be done via a specially designed progress report which will be used to evaluate each child’s education, mentality and extra-curricular activities by the school.