All Projects/Year/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 Collection

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

Digitization 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

Documentation of Malay and Jawi Collection

Project Number	NF/PG/2024/0008	Grant Agency / Donors	Hussainmiya Prof. Dr. B.A	Project Owner	Noolaham Foundation
Project Mentor	Hussainmiya Prof. Dr. B.A	Project Locations	Sri Lanka	Project Period	2024
Stakeholders	Staff and Volunteers of Noolaham Foundation

Professor B.A. Hussanmaniya is working extensively to protect the Malay traditions and culture. His collection includes various important documents which show the uniqueness of the Malay community and Yawi language. The photographs, hand written documents, books and paintings in his collection are needed to be preserved in order to transfer the cultural and language heritage.

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