3. The objectives for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be"
| (a) to establish and maintain educational institutes, hostels for male and female students and to advance and promote the education of needy children ; |
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| (b) to grant financial aid and award scholarships to needy students; |
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| (c) to provide necessary aid to victims of natural disasters; |
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| (d) to engage In social services; |
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| (e) to provide medical facilities, nutritious food, clothing and housing to the poor, the orphans, and the sick; |
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| (f) to provide welfare facilities to the deal, dumb and the blind ; |
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| (g) to establish and maintain elders' home ; |
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| (h) to engage in cultural activities : |
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| (i) to promote the education of the clergy and the laity by conducting courses of study in Sinhala, Pali Sanskrit, Buddhism and Ayurvedic Medicine ; |
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| (j) to conduct sermons, Buddha pujas, Chethiya pujas, Bodhi pujas. Meditation classes, discussions, seminars, lectures and tours ; |
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| (k) to promote the education of Ayurvedic and Indigenous Medicine ; |
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| (l) to conduct the annual commemoration celebrations of chief incumbent Rev. Rathgama Siri Sumanawansa Thero, the founder member of the Foundation and all other religious functions as may be approved by the Corporation ; |
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| (m) to promote the mutual understanding and harmony among the people irrespective of race or religion ; protection, management and preservation of environment. |
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| (n) to promote and maintain projects necessary for the environment; |
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| (o) to provide courses of vocational training to the youths in Sri Lanka ; |
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| (p) to provide training in small industries to students and to assist them financially or otherwise to become useful citizens ; |
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| (q) to promote and uplift education by establishment and maintenance of schools and other educational institutions ; |
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| (r) to engage in any industry, trade or import and export enterprises with a view to giving technical knowledge to the people, to promote and carry out agricultural, industrial and commercial enterprises, to help and assist any person to engage in such enterprises and to conduct training programmes and to organize services and propaganda campaigns; |
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| (s) to give aid by scholarships or otherwise to volunteers and other persons engaged in the furtherance of the objects of the Corporation; |
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| (t) to establish and maintain libraries, to subscribe for-and issue books, journals, souvenirs and periodicals and to provide such other services as may be deemed desirable for attaining the objects of the Corporation ; |
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| (u) to promote, organise and hold exhibitions, lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops, classes, debates, conferences, tours, executions or any other activity in furtherance of the objects of the Corporation; |
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| (v) to co-operate and associate with other societies, associations or organizations having objects similar to that of the Corporation ; and |
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| (w) to do all such other acts and thing's as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any one of them. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts