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| Volunteers |
| We also welcome volunteers
for our ‘Trees for Life’ project and please contact
us to receive a volunteer task brief, new opportunities will
be posted in this section very soon. |
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| New staff
members |
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Sujith Yamasinghe
BA (Hons)
DPR Manager LINC Project ,
(Learning Involving and Nurturing Community) Beruwela. |
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Sujith has 3 years
executive experience in Public Relations Management, 3 years
experience in community development & 5 years experience
in the private sector. He has particular interest in
the areas of coordinating & conducting training, managing
events, development, conceptualising & designing promotional
materials, working with media, conducting research in sociological
approach. His key strengths are in community development
work mobilising local communities and empowering them with
awareness and training. He works very closely with the
beach operator community in Beruwela. |
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Mohomed M. Bahir
Manager ‘Trees for Life’ Galle
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Bahir has worked as a
research associate at the Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka
from 1995 – 2004 and as the Research Manager in 2005. He is
a member of the Wildlife Conservation Society Galle and has
been involved in many conservational related initiatives especially
conducting a large number of educational programmes for school
children.
Bahir has a fascinating career involving numerous contributions
to wildlife exploration and conservation in Sri Lanka and has
recorded a number of endemic species. He has contributed extensively
to natural history publications locally and internationally
such as the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Sri Lanka Nature, the
Journal of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri
Lanka & Journal of South Asian Natural. |
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Sue Mautner
LINC Poject |
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Sue’s first entry into
the travel industry was in a tourism research and marketing
company, which included acting as the Seychelles Tourist Office
and Hong Kong Travel Association before they had their own offices
in the UK and Europe. 29 years at Kuoni UK, from when it had
less than 50 staff and then grew to over 400. From PR and Sales,
to head of marketing. Later on she was given the special opportunity
to create and set up a direct sell tour operator, which became
The Travel Collection. In 2005, Sue wanted to spend more time
traveling and Leaving Kuoni, she was looking for volunteer work
in countries as she says “which had specially touched my heart
across the years”.
Sue is helping us to develop and initiate the LINC project in
Beruwela and, train Sujith our project manager. Sue’s time of
one month (February 2007) in Sri Lanka for this project is 100%
voluntarily without any fees. “Over the 20 years during which
I have been involved with Sri Lanka, our business dealings have
led to increasing success for both Kuoni UK and The Travel Collection:
so I feel I would now like to put something back, particularly
when times are hard. Also, I have enjoyed many wonderful personal
holidays on the island. Above all, I feel privileged to have
got to know many amazing people in Sri Lanka whom I count as
true friends. I am really honoured to have been asked to volunteer
and will do everything I can to ensure it is successful”. |
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Ian McCaughan
& Phil Jones
Fist Choice Holidays and Flights UK ,
Trees for Life.
Ian, Branch Manger of a busy high street travel agency
and Phil, Senior Technical Project Manager, IT department
will be visiting Sri Lanka on 8th of March 2007 to participate
and contribute to a very rewarding two weeks tsunami
recovery exercise. They will help develop and launch
our second ‘Trees for Life’ tree nursery located in
the scenic Rain Forest reservoir in Hiyare. |
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