Professor S. Vijesandiran is a Senior Lecturer of the University of Peradeniya and has a BA (Hons) 2nd Class (Upper Division) degree in Economics (Majored in Statistics), also from the University of Peradeniya. He has followed Post Graduate diploma in Natural Resources Management & Sustainable Agriculture at the Agricultural
D.S.K.Wijebandara holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering and is currently the Team Leader of PALM Foundation in Nuwara Eliya and has served on the board of PALM Foundation since 1991. He worked as a quantity surveyor and design Engineer at Kean Nam Enterprises in Saudi Arabia and worked as
Sunil has a BSC (Sp.) degree in Public Administration from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and followed the Post Graduate Diploma in adult education from the Open University Nawala. Sunil Dombepola has vast years of experience as the Deputy Team Leader and Director in PALM from the 1994 up
The original founders of PALM were Natascha Sennema, who lived and worked in Sri Lanka as a private development worker and Sjoerd Oppewal, from Holland, who both had a grassroots vision to uplift the poor and downtrodden. Sjoerd visited Sri Lanka for the adoption of his daughter. Natascha is
I started my new journey after a soul-searching time. It was around early nineteen eighty, when I arrived on a tea plantation in the hills of Sri Lanka. Leaving myself behind, I found others: poorer, more miserable, and rejected by society, unwanted. This new journey was going to be