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Revision as of 05:10, 16 April 2024

Documentation of Inscriptions

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0001 Grant Agency / Donors British Library Project Owner Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project aims on documenting, digitizing, preserving, and sharing documents and other sources related to the Trincomalee district, assisting in various educational and social studies related to the district. This project will provide encouragement to those engaged in research on Trincomalee and create an online system where they can easily access the main resources they need.

  • Ongoing

History of Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0002 Grant Agency / Donors Prof . Sreeharan , International Medical Health Organization (IMHO) Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Dr.Sugumar Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This project assists to expose the importance and value of the history of Medicine Collection to society. Generally, people do not know the importance of history in their culture and life. This project will provide great awareness about Medicine Collection in Northern Sri Lanka and will document the major players. events and ideas that played a role in the evolution of the healthcare services in Northern Sri Lanka.

  • Ongoing

Regional Documentation - Ampara

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0003 Grant Agency / Donors University of Toronto Scarborough Libray Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Ampara is located 320 km from Colombo. Sinhalese, Tamils ​​and Muslims live in the city. Ampara district has four parliamentary constituencies namely Kalmunai, Sammanthurai, Pottuvil and Ampara. Ampara district is located along the Urogana region. After the tenth century, some of the tribes that inhabited the coast of the present Ampara district played an important role in the administration of the Batticaloa region. Today's Sammanthurai was the capital of the then Batticaloa region. Thirukovil Murugan Temple was one of the famous temples in the East.

  • Ongoing

Digitization of Human Rights Collections

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0004 Grant Agency / Donors Memory of Chelvarani Nadarajah Project Owner Thamilini Jothilingam
Project Mentor Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Sri Lanka is a country that has a history of thirty years of civil war. The country has seen horrendous human rights violations throughout its history. Many books and articles have been written regarding human rights and the situations in which these fundamental rights are violated and result in unthinkable tragedies. These need to be digitalized since they will highlight the mistakes we made as a society and advise us on what to do in similar situations.

  • Ongoing

Documentation of Panchangam

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0001 Grant Agency / Donors British Library Project Owner Shaseevan Ganeshananthan
Project Mentor Mayooranathan Ratnavelpillai Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Documenting Panchangams (two types - Trikanitham, Vakyam) is important in the existence of ritual and culture of a society. Panchangams are not only helpful in Hindu formal life matters. These are seen to include scientific subjects such as astronomy, mathematics and planetary positions. Based on them, it will be possible to learn how panchangams influence Sri Lankan Tamil culture, Tamil lifestyle and social issues by documenting panchangams through this project.

  • Ongoing

Noolaham Digital Library Collection Development 2024

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0006 Grant Agency / Donors Noolaham Foundation Project Owner Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor Pathmanaba Iyer Rathina Iyer Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

This is an annual project undertaken by Noolaham Foundation. Under this project, documents lent and gifted to Noolaham by writers and collectors of documents, documents gathered via the various projects conducted by Noolaham, documents that were left out during previous projects conducted by Noolaham and documents that need to be added to the existing collections and multimedia documents are documented in 2024.

  • Ongoing

Slave Registry

Project Number NF/PG/2024/0007 Grant Agency / Donors University of Toronto Project Owner Balmforth Mark
Project Mentor Balmforth Mark Project Locations Sri Lanka Project Period 2024
Stakeholders Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Between 1818 and 1832, British colonial officials recorded the names of more than 20,000 enslaved people living on the island of Ceylon, the vast majority of whom would be considered Tamil today. The Legacies of Tamil Slavery Working Group seeks to transcribe this registry, work toward its eventual public display, and to think collaboratively with descendants of the enslaved about an interactive public resource with which to teach about Sri Lanka’s history of enslavement.

  • Ongoing