Nagenahiru Foundation – Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Nagenahiru Foundation is a community based non-profit organization and operating since 1991. The mission of the Foundation is to facilitate, assist and promote the improvement of the innate capacities and strength of the rural communities for the prosperity of the nation, while protecting, conserving and restoring the natural environment and biodiversity especially when these communities are living in sensitive ecological area's.
Nagenahiru operates its development programmes through economically viable, culturally feasible, socially just and ecologically sustainable development activities towards capacity building of disadvantaged rural communities to identify and address their own development needs.
In the last few years project objectives of Nagenahiru were more focused on the socio-economic and ecological topics such as Poverty, Food Security, Health, small business development, employment generation, ecological restoration and environmental education and to find a sustainable balance between the socio-economic and ecological issues of the region.
By the Light of a Solar Lamp...
Replacing the Use of Harmful Kerosene Lamps for Night Fishing - in Sri Lanka
The Nagenahiru strategy to address the issue of extensively emitting CO2 to the atmosphere during night fishing in Sri Lanka is the introduction of a mechanism that link poverty reduction with ongoing climate and energy patterns of the marginalized fisher communities.
The introduction of more efficient LED lamps as a low-cost, economically viable alternative to replace the fishermen's traditional kerosene lamps is having very high potential to fight poverty while simultaneously mitigating global warming and environmental degradation. Mitigating climate change, transforming the energy systems in rural areas. Read more...
Poverty Mitigation & Community Empowerment
Environmental Education
Which facilitate
- To set new sustainability standards for development
- To educate and empower communities to lead green lifestyles
- To conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change.
Rehabilitation of Threaten Ecological Systems
Presently Nagenahiru engage in protecting, conserving and rehabilitation of this critically endangered Mangrove Ecosystem in Sri Lanka...
Protecting & Conservation of Agro Biodiversity
Most of these voluble species are presently neglected and under utilized and facing speedy disappearing...