01. Report on relief to flood victim families

According to the Disaster management center (DMC), more than 75,000 people from nearly 18,000 families affected due to heavy rains and floods in five districts of the Northern Province from 22 to 25 December, 2018 and displaced in 35 evacuation centers as their homes were inundated. The affected districts were Mullaithivu, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Vavuniya and Jaffna.  Many people were engaged in relief and rescue missions in the Mullaithivu and Kilinochchi districts, which were hardly affected by the inclement weather condition.

Therefore, the welfare society of the Faculty of Agriculture hands together to help the affected people. For this purpose, volunteer members of the welfare society joined together and raised the fund from staff of Faculty of Agriculture and the flood relief activity was done on 24th December 2018 at Murikandy Madhya Maha Vidyalayam where victim staff and their family members displaced from the University of Jaffna, Kilinochchi premises. We collected Rs. 168,500.00 from staff of the Faculty of Agriculture and cost of this event was Rs. 130,318.00. We provided all essential requirements, including dry foods and health facilities. 

On behalf of the welfare society, we greatly thankful to all the staff members who voluntarily provide financial and physical support for the flood relief activity on time. We also thank the Royal Homes Pvt (Ltd.) for providing the vehicle with free of charge for this activity. 

02. Report on launching of official mail and website

On the request of welfare society, the following official e-mail welfareagri@univ.jfn.ac.lk  and website https://sites.google.com/univ.jfn.ac.lk/agricwelfare/ were created on 3rd January 2019 and this website has been linked with the faculty homepage: http://www.agri.jfn.ac.lk/ . On behalf of the society, we thanked Dr.E.Y.Charles, Head, Computer Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna and Mr.K.Venugoban, Instructor, Computer Unit, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna for their support to create and link the official web and e-mail.

03. Support to Thai pongal festival

On the request of Student Union, welfare society of the Faculty of Agriculture provided a financial support Rs. 5, 000.00 for Thai ponagal festival which was organized by the Students Union of Faculty of Agriculture on 15th January 2019.

04. Report on funeral services

We deeply saddened by the news of Mr. Parameshwaran Prasteen passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Members of the welfare society sorrow the deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences and on behalf of the society, Mr.R.Kirupakarn, Secreatry attended the funeral on 3rd May 2019 to memorialize a deceased person Mr.P.Prasteen, a final year student of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. Sympathy of banner and notice were printed with cost of Rs.4,500.00.