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+ | The Hindu Board of Education runs a Children’s home with around 250 students. They are also getting Shelter, Food, Clothing, Health Care, Education, Recreation and Vocational training. Almost all the children are from families affected by war. Hindu Board has a branch at Palaali road, Urumpirai, Jaffna called “Karunai illam”, a children's home especially for girls. For more details visit: hinduboard.org | ||
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Revision as of 00:20, 22 May 2015
The Noolaham Foundation collaborates with various organizations related to its projects. Our mission is to build strong relationships with cultural and educational institutions and to recruit and support new organizations. We need your help in making this collaborative platform bigger, better and more useful. The following is the list of the organizations we collaborate with. Collaboration does not necessarily mean that the Foundation endorse the activities, views or content of these organizations.
Consultancy Partners
The Roja Muthiah Research LibraryThe Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) was founded in 1994 to preserve, catalogue, and expand the collection of Roja Muthiah Chettiyar, a private collector who put together one of the world’s finest private libraries of Tamil publications during his lifetime. Located in Chennai, RMRL currently houses one of the most unique collections of Tamil imprints in South Asia. Some of the publications date from the latter part of the eighteenth century. With a collection of 2,50,000 items, RMRL provides research materials and facilities for research scholars of Tamil studies in a variety of fields spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Most of the publications date from the latter half of the nineteenth and the twentieth century. RMRL provides consultancy services to Noolaham Foundation in the areas of documentation and preservation. For more details visit: The Roja Muthiah Research Library
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The French Institute of PondicherryThe French Institute of Pondicherry is a French financially autonomous institution in India, under the joint supervision of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is an integral part of the network of 27 research centres connected with the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. IFP assists Noolaham Foundation's programs by providing training to our volunteers in the areas of digitizing and preservation. For more details visit: The French Institute of Pondicherry |
Archival Partners
Jaffna Public LibraryThe library was built in many stages starting from 1933, from a modest beginning as a private collection. Soon with the help of primarily local citizens, it became a full fledged library. The library also became a repository of archival material written in palm leaf manuscripts, original copies of regionally important historic documents in the contested Contest political history of Sri Lanka and newspapers that were published hundreds of years ago in the Jaffna peninsula. It thus became a place of historic and symbolic importance to the local minority Sri Lankan Tamil people An organized mob went on a rampage on the nights of May 31 to June 2, 1981, burning the Jaffna public library. The library at the time of destruction was one of the biggest in Asia containing over 97,000 unique books and unique manuscript. For more details visit: Jaffna Pulic Library Jaffna Public Library has provided Noolaham Foundation with an office space at their library to conduct digitization activities. Various rare publications, magazines, phamlets and manuscrpts have been digitized by Noolaham Foundation.
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Colombo Tamil SangamColombo Tamil Sangam contributes towards the betterment of Tamil language, culture and Arts. Established in 1942, it operates a library with more than 45,000 books, publishes books and magazines, and conducts various events. The library takes a unique stand in accomplishing the basic needs of high level research, references and also elaborates the platform for tamil language reading. It has a continuous approach in updating itself while comprising a huge number of tamil books. Moreover other main responsibilities of the Sangam include encouraging creators and publishers by creating a common platform, improving students' creative skills, encouraging Tamil literates, publishing 'sangathamizh' magazine and other books. For more details visit: colombotamilsangam.com From 2009 to 2011, Colombo Tamil Sangam provided a space within their library to digitize their Sri Lankan Tamil special collection so that users all over the world can benefit from their collections. Noolaham Foundation has digitized more than 2500 publications from their collection. |
Project Partners
Department of Computer Science - University of JaffnaThe Faculty of Science in the University of Jaffna established the Department of Computer Science in 1991. The vision of the Department is to be recognised as the centre of Computer Science learning in North and East parts of Sri Lanka. The department aims to produce competent graduates who excel in learning and computer science research and who could contribute to the development of the nation. For more details visit: Department of Computer Science - University of Jaffna In collaboration with the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), the Department of Computer Science at the University of Jaffna has initiated a project on designing an optical character recognition (OCR) software for the Tamil and Sinhala languages. Noolaham Foundation contributes to this project by providing digitized documents in Tamil.
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Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) - JaffnaOMI Jaffna is a branch of The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church. Bishop Christopher Ernest Bonjean was called to Colombo at the age of sixty, on April 20, 1883, appointing Father Melizan Theophile OMI, his successor in Jaffna. Thus in the Diocese of Jaffna, from the time of the appointment of Bishop Semeria as the Vicar Apostolic of Jaffna on July 5, 1868 until the death of the last native Bishop of the same Diocese. For more details visit: OMI Jaffna The Jaffna regional organization of the OMI has been in touch with Noolaham foundation on issues related to our projects. They have shared with us the rare documents that they have housed in their library Thodarpakam. Noolaham foundation has shared some of the digitized documents with the Lebara library in Kilinochi which is administered by the OMI. |
Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna |
Hindu Board Children HomeThe famous Sri Lankan Tamil political leader Sir Ramanathan Ponnambalam inaugurated Hindu Board of Education on 1st December, 1923 to propagate Tamil language, Culture, Saiva Religion and Education. And Mr. Rajaratnam Subramaniam (Hindu Board Rajaratnam) also played an important role, in this progress to bring it, up to this stage. This approved charity is located at Kalasalai Road, Thirunelvely, Jaffna. The poet Mr. S. Pathmanathan is the president of this organization and about 150 volunteers are contributing. The Hindu Board of Education runs a Children’s home with around 250 students. They are also getting Shelter, Food, Clothing, Health Care, Education, Recreation and Vocational training. Almost all the children are from families affected by war. Hindu Board has a branch at Palaali road, Urumpirai, Jaffna called “Karunai illam”, a children's home especially for girls. For more details visit: hinduboard.org The Noolaham foundation had been conducted a project for Hindu Board of Education students for their ‘soft-skill development and an awareness creation. We have conducted a number of other events promoting digital literacy and virtual learning.
Benefactor Organizations
Beneficiary Organizations
Other Collaborated Organizations
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