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4. Objects of the Fund

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

The objects of the Fund shall be—

(a)

to secure and develop the Ambuluwawa

Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Jayaratne Religious

Centre and Bio-diversity Complex ;

(b)

to improve the area round the Ambuluwawa mountain range ;

(c)

to promote peace, goodwill, understanding and co-operation among the community ;

(d)

to promote and encourage inter-religious harmony and social integration ;

Ambuluwawa Dissanayake Mudiyanselage

Jayaratne Religious Centre and Bio-diversity

(e)

to promote the religious development of Sri

Lankans ;

(f)

to enhance the knowledge and understanding of

Sri Lankans in the field of religion ;

(g)

to improve the living conditions of persons who are economically and socially disadvantaged in the community, including improvement to their shelters and the provision of other infrastructure facilities ;

(h)

to encourage people to intelligently invest in banks and other financial institutions ;

(i)

to establish relations with local and foreign institutions which have similar objects as those of the Fund;

(j)

to provide financial or other assistance to any person engaged in any activity which is similar to any of the objects of the Fund ;

(k)

to organize seminars, workshops and training programmes in Sri Lanka and abroad on religious fields ;

(l)

to organize programmes for creating awareness among the people on the human rights, duties and access to justice ;

(m)

to provide adequate facilities for the improvement of sports and recreation capabilities of people ;

(n)

to lead the nation to global peace based on religious principles of co-existence and to thereby establish avenues for planned development ;

(o)

to train youth labour for the development and welfare of the common man;

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Ambuluwawa Dissanayake Mudiyanselage

Jayaratne Religious Centre and Bio-diversity

(p)

to encourage the farmers and establishment of youth farmers organizations within the community;

(q)

to draw the special attention of the youth for training in pre-vocational education and in the field of sports;

(r)

to conduct seminars, lectures and exhibitions, lotteries and educational tours;

(s)

to establish and maintain libraries; and

(t)

to safeguard the interest of persons who have for generations been engaged in the practice of indigenous medicine and to protect herbal and medicinal plants, indigenous to Sri Lanka.