Template:Setup Eastern Unit for Noolaham Foundation
| Project Number | NF/PG/2019/0008 | Grant Agency / Donors | Noolaham Foundation | Project Owner | Kopinath Thillainathan | |
| Project Mentor | Kopinath Thillainathan | Project Locations | Eastern | Project Period | 2019 | |
| Stakeholders | Prasad Sockalingam , Sanjayan Selvamanikam and Noolaham Foundation | |||||
Documenting creative productions coming from the Eastern region of the island is important to diversify the digitization work done by Noolaham Foundation in line with the Foundation’s objectives. Absorbing the intellectual community based in the East to digitize the documents found in the archives in the region will strengthen Noolaham’s activities. This initiative will help Noolaham de-centralize its tasks. Under this initiative, Noolaham will be able to address some of the difficulties faced by the Jaffna office due to distance between Jaffna and other regions where the activities of Noolaham are carried out.Although efforts were made to expand the activities of Noolaham in the Eastern region, they were not sustained later. In 2016, Noolaham was successful in finding a venue in the Arayampathy Public Library to house its office. However, since in 2017 it became possible for Noolaham to set up a digitization unit at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka, the 2016 initiative was not taken forward. Within a few months, the activities carried out from the unit at the Eastern University were limited to digitization. Later on, when Noolaham started new projects with a focus on documenting villages and documenting vocational arts, we felt the need to establish a regional center in the Easter. Against this background, Noolaham started some initiatives to set up a regional center in Batticaloa.
