Sri Lanka Federation of University Women launches its website – www.slfuw.lk

The Sri Lanka Federation of University Women launched its website  on July 10 at its headquarters in Colombo, an SLFUW news release said.

.In her welcome address, the SLFUW President, Colonel Dr. Udula Krishnaratne extended a warm welcome to the Chief Guest, Dr. Ramya Chamali Jirasinghe, and thanked her for gracing the occasion. She also  thanked  and  expressed her appreciation to all others present  for their participation at this event.

Dr. Jirasinghe is  the  Country Coordinator for Kindernothilfe Lanka and a former Deputy Director of the Fulbright Commission Sri Lanka and also an award winning poet.

She said that it is interesting to note that, while the Fulbright Commission helped develop education  by providing Sri Lankans with opportunities for postgraduate studies in America, it was an American lady, Mrs. Clara Motwani, with a Masters Degree in Education, who helped to develop school education in Sri Lanka,  and  also set up the SLFUW in 1941.Thus the SLFUW is 82 years old, but the years have only made it stronger, with a large and influential membership, both in Sri Lanka and abroad.