3. General Objects of the Corporation

The general objects for which the Corporation is established are hereby declared be–

to improve the economic conditions of the poor ;

to assist the people engaged in the domestic subsistance sector and the export agricultural sector, and to improve productivity in such sectors ;

to undertake the management of land development and agricultural activities ;

to assist and encourage, rural small industries and the generation of self employment ;

to encourage and provide incentives to the poor to be self reliant ;

to contribute actively for the realization of the objectives of the national programme called and known as Samurdhi Movement for alleviation of poverty ;

to enthuse the public in the malter of primary health care, and to provide advise thereon ;

to improve health and nutrition levels, through social activation projects and to provide assistance for social welfare activities ;

to provide financial assistance and advice, for the supply of drinking water ;

to provide advice and assistance to low income rural poor, in matters relating to housing ;

to educate the public on the ill-effects of liquor, drugs and smoking, and to free people from addiction thereto ;

to implement programmes for the protection of the basic values of indigenous culture ;

to educate the public on the values of rural culture in order to ensure a desirable social order ;

to implement cultural programmes centered round places of religious worship ;

to implement programmes which highlight indigenous cultural values at national and religious festivals ;

to encourage, through various programmes, the development of indigenous cultural values which have hithereto suffered deterioration ;

to contribute, encourage and implement, programmes to uplift pre-school education ;

to assist the students who sit for public examination of the government within the formal educational system, by holding seminars and discussions ;

to implement programmes aimed at improving literati among those students who are left behind in the school educational system ;

to assist and implement, informal educational programmes ; and

to provide library service facilities.