3. The general objects of the Corporation shall be the following: -
| (1) To provide, by means of Shramadana Camps and other constructive ways, adequate opportunities and the appropriate mental climate for the realization of the principles, the philosophy and the objects of Sarvodaya by the Shramadana Sewakas and Sewikas who volunteer to engage themselves in village development and community welfare projects. |
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| (2) To provide opportunities to the youth to acquire a correct understanding of the socio-economic and other problems of the country, and to organize educational and training programmes for them to learn ways and means of solving these according to the Sarvodaya philosophy. |
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| (3) To organize programmes with a view to the eradication of distrust and disintegration springing' from differences such as of caste, race, creed and party-politics. |
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| (4) To disseminate qualities of selfless service, self-denial, co-operation, self-discipline and dignity of labour among the people of the land. |
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| (5) To encourage the development, especially in the youth of healthy views of social justice, equality, love of one's motherland and international brotherhood. |
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| (6) To develop self-confidence, co-operation and unity among the urban and rural communities and to evoke their inherent strength to bring about an all-round development in their spiritual, moral, social,. economic and educational life. |
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| (7) To train and organize groups of youth who are ready to come forward and render voluntary service in times of national distress as well as in community development and social welfare programmes. |
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| (8) To collect and mobilize the maximum possible resources of the people such as their time, intelligences energy, land, wealth, specialized skills and technological knowledge which they are prepared to donate of their own free-will, and utilize these scientifically to bring about the general economic and social progress of the people. |
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| (9) To help generally in the realization of the objects of the various institutions of the United Nations and especially to assist in the programmes of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the UNESCO and the WHO respectively, to eradicate hunger illiteracy and disease from our world. |
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| (10) To promote the idea of the need for, and the importance of, the establishment of an International Shramadana Corps, under the auspices of the United Nations, through its member nations. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts