CBI Presents: Selyn
Meet Seetha Ekanayake (Local Entrepreneur) and Sandra Wanduragala (Founder) of Selyn. Selyn is the winner of the CBI SME Award – People 2013
Fair-trade certified Selyn is a manufacturer of handloom textiles and textile-based children’s toys. This company has invested in Sri Lankan communities by harnessing the skills of people in rural areas and thus helping them to improve their living standards. It has also positively impacted the lives of over 1,000 women. Now, having developed its own “Selyn Fair Trade Model” the company applies 10 Fair Trade principles across its complete operational base.
Selyn was part of a CBI programme which lasted about 4 years. The programme was designed to strengthen the competitive capacity of producers and exporters from development countries.
Selyn - Empowering Local Communities in Sri Lanka
The tradition of the loom takes its roots at the very inceptioon of Sri Lankan history. Today the industry faces decline due to various reasons ranging from the lack of skilled experiense, uncompetitive market prices, outdated designs and lack of infrastructure and technology.
Selyn takes on this challenge to revive our heritage and extend its benefits to our rural women and men.
Paroles de partenaire - Selyn - Sri Lanka
We SERVE Sri Lanka - Community Development in Colombo (Self Help Groups)
SERVE is a non-profit organization established in 1999 working with and for the rights of children and families. In ten districts of Sri Lanka, SERVE supports the development of analytical capacity of children, families and communities to assess the status of child rights. With the help of their partners, the social workers initiate and support the empowerment of women and children and help families to achieve their own socio economic goals. SERVE works for the empowerment of people with commitment, love and care.
A key concept in SERVEs work is the Self Help Group approach. It promotes the enjoyment of human rights for all vulnerable and marginalised people. SERVE invest in social capital and human capabilities to enable everyone to participate in decision-making at the household, community and macro level and to lift themselves out of poverty.
During a three week stay we produced this image video, designed the new website and improved the volunteer program to attract more international volunteers to come and work with SERVE.
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Integrating Fairtrade in a handloom company in Sri Lanka
Selyn is a Social and Solidarity Economy initiative founded in 1991 by Sandra Wanduragala. Sri Lanka’s only Fair Trade guaranteed Handloom company that engages the traditional Sri Lankan community of Handloom weavers in bringing to you products handmade with 100% cotton and infinite measures of skill and devotion.
Selyn - Supply Chain of Happiness
Selyn founder Sandra Wanduragala - Interview Series Women in Business IORA Summit 2014
Founder Chairman of Sri-lanka based Selyn Exporters speaking at the IORA Summit 2014. Participants from all 20 Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) countries across Africa, South and East Asia and the Middle-East called for greater investment in women’s productivity and implementation of gender responsive policy frameworks a a three-day dialogue titled Paths to Women’s Economic Empowerment in IORA Countries, with a focus on tourisms and textiles in Kuala Lumpur, 17-19 August.
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A Social Entrepreneurs Guide to Building A Nation | Selyna Peiris | TEDxColombo
Selyna brings us the easy step guide to building a social business. She draws in from her experience from running one of the largest fair trade companies in Sri Lanka and works on empowering women across the country to stand on their own feet.
Selyna Peiris is an attorney-at-Law and currently holds the position of Director - Business Development at Selyn Handlooms; Sri Lanka's only fair-trade guaranteed handloom company.
She has her LLB (Hons.) from the University of Hull and an LLM in International Business Law from University College London. She is also a post-graduate of International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria.
She has previously worked at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization both in Vienna and in Sri Lanka and currently also works as an freelance consultant for various government, non-governmental and international organizations in the area of social business development.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Selyn Sri Lanka - bomboniere equosolidali - IlSandalo Altromercato - Saronno (VA)
Dallo Sri Lanka tanti oggetti in tessuto per bomboniere eque e solidali. Selyn dà lavoro a tante donne dei villaggi rurali che tessono su telaio a mano bellissimi tessuti colorati. Giochi in pezza e oggettini per guarnire le bomboniere di bimbi vengono confezionati con questi tessuti e arrivano nelle botteghe del mondo del commercio equo.
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Weaving Process & Handloom Products.
Manufacturer and whole seller of Handloom products in Srilanka. Here you will find a collection of all types of Handlooms product such as fabrics, sarongs, sarees, shawls, beach wrap, and ladies tops.We do free deliver to anywhere in Srilanka. We hope you enjoy wearing Handloom product @East Star Handlooms.
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Sri Lanka 2016 GoPro Hero
Trip to Sri Lanka May-June 2016.
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Trip: Negombo-Trincomalee-Kandy-Ella-Unawatuna-Negombo
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Empowering Sri Lanka’s young people to become powerful global citizens
With the the smart classroom we established at Ra/Sri Saranajothi Tissa Vidyalaya in Devipahala, Kuruwita in the Sabaragamuwa Province for our 11th CDB Pariganaka Piyasa school project on 29th March 2018, we are continuing to empower Sri Lanka’s young people with the apt skills and competencies to become powerful global citizens.
Yakawewa Rural Community Development Project
Kebithigollewa is a rural village situated 23 miles south-east of Vavuyniya in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka. The village which had experienced more than its share of violence from the 27-year-long civil war with LTTE, still undergo grave difficulties principally due to the lack of access to clean drinking water. Recognizing the need for support, Access Engineering initiated restoring the Kuda Nelugola tank; one of key sources of water which has been abandoned for almost three long decades. Restoration has enabled number of farmers who are living in the vicinity of the tank to start cultivating their paddy fields of around 10 acres of size.
The CSR program also included installation of a Water Purification Plant with a deep tube well including an elevated storage tank and pump system which provides the much awaited access to clean drinking water. The plant which has the capacity to supply 5,000 liters of water per day, facilitates around 125 families of the village.
The agricultural life of the villages was furthered upgraded by Access Engineering with the construction of an agricultural well with a pump system which provides a continuous supply of water that is sufficient for around 15 farmers to cultivate (Paddy and alternative crop) in two seasons even at a time of a drought.
As a supplementary effort to uplift the livelihoods of the striving communities of Kebithigollewa, Access Engineering identified 75 needy families and donated them with around 400 pieces of reconditioned second hand clothing. Access Engineering has also donated a collection of books to Kanugahawewa Primary School, school supplies to Yakawewa School and sport equipments, mini drip irrigation system and other supplies to Halmillwatiya School in order to enhance the overall learning experience of the students of these surrounding communities.
Sri Lankan Crafts - Divulapitiya Handloom
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MaximsNewsNetwork: SRI LANKA: INCOME FOR POOR: WORLD BANK
MaximsNewsNetwork: 12 September 2009 - World Bank: The World Bank Group has approved a US$75 million no interest credit for Sri Lanka to help that country's poorest people. The funding will be used in Sri Lanka's rural communities for the second phase of a community program that has already touched the lives of nearly one million poor Sri Lankans.
Clamping and twisting straw by hand, Chandra Dissanayake makes 25 brooms a day. Before Chandra and her husband got a small loan from their village association to start up production, they survived —but just - on her husbands occasional day jobs, and by selling fruit. They were among their villages poorest people.
SOUNDBITE (Sri Lankan) Chandra Dissanayake, broom maker:
Ive been in business about a year. Now we have enough income for our day to day expenses. We sell our brooms wholesale to shops, and also through the Gemidiriya office. Villagers also come home and buy our brooms.
The association that gives Chandra and others like her in poor, rural areas of Sri Lanka a chance at a livelihood is part of a program funded by the World Bank to reduce the gap between the very poor and those in wealthier, western parts of the country.
The program allows villagers to support projects at the village level; whether its giving a woman a loan to buy a cow so she can sell milk, or helping another woman start a weaving business.
Since 2004, more than half a million people have been helped in 500 villages. Up to seven million in 5,000 villages will have benefited from the program by 2016.
This community, which hacked a village out of the jungle a few years ago, decided to start a community radio station to tackle problems national radio stations cant. The village is too remote for agriculture extension agents to visit, and the radio offers help.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dhammika Priyanthi, Radio DJ:
A big problem facing farmers in Polonnaruwa is an insect that is destroying rice paddies. Solutions have been found in other areas but farmers here dont know how to deal with the problem. Bringing the situation under control is a major challenge. We can use community radio to exchange experiences and help farmers find a solution.
Radio deejay Dhammika Priyanthi says community radio can help girls who often marry very young navigate married life, manage household budgets and find self-employment. Being a deejay has helped her build self-confidence and become a professional in her community.
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The Empower Board - A listing platform for Sri Lankan SMEs
CSE now offers a new and compelling avenue to drive Sri Lankan SMEs through their next phase of evolution, by offering a unique proposition and an opportunity to access a deep pool of international and domestic capital.