3. General Objects of the Corporation

to erect and maintain statues of the Right

Honourable D. S. Senanayake and Mr.Dudley

Senanayake in Ampara Town, and to construct and maintain a building at a suitable place to commemorative them;

to award scholarships to needy students entering the universities of Sri Lanka for higher education from the Ampara District ;

to create employment opportunities in the fields of agriculture, arts and crafts, trade, commerce and industry and to provide financial and technical assistance to those seeking self-employment with a view to uplifting the economic conditions of the residents in the Ampara District and to help and support them during calamities ;

to render assistance in the construction of houses, by organising shramadana campaigns and the provision of financial assistance;

to promote the advancement of communal and religious harmony and good will among the people of the Ampara District;

to take steps to provide assistance to victims of floods, cyclones, epidemics, fires and such other disasters in any part of Sri lanka; and to do all other acts and things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any one of them.