SAFE Foundation launch programme caring for migrant workers and families in A’pura

The Anuradhapura based Non-Governmental Organization SAFE Foundation has launched a programme aimed at providing sustainable solutions to deep seated problems and difficulties being faced by children, and relatives of the families of migrant workers, to those who intend to migrate for foreign employment and those repatriated or returned from the Middle East countries, in Anuradhapura district. The Anuradhapura district secretariat Foreign Employment Bureau, district foreign employment development division and child protection authority contribute to the particular services and the provision of legal aid programme.

At a full day workshop held recently at the Anuradhapura District Secretariat organized under the patronage of Anuradhapura SAFE Foundation. Anuradhapura Additional District Secretary Shamila Wickramaarachchi emphasized that during the current year around 7,000 persons have gone abroad for foreign employment and in 2022 the number who’ve migrated for foreign jobs from the district stands at 14,000 being those who have been registered at the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau.

“Majority of families belonging to migrant workers, those who have returned and also those planning to leave for foreign jobs require legal aid guidance and instructions for safe migration, to keep them from falling prey to unscrupulous foreign job racketeers and human traffickers. While we intervene in offering relief to the families of the above-mentioned foreign employment component we are required to understand the consequences of large scale exodus seeking foreign job opportunities as witnessed at present which adversely affects the economy and well-being of the country. However, those who are leaving for foreign jobs shall do so in conformity with the rules and regulations, career guidance techniques, norms and criteria etc. of the Sri Lanka foreign employment Bureau guaranteeing the safe migration” Additional Government Agent Wickramaarachchi said specifically.

At the event a counselling programme for young children of the migrant workers families, an art competition had been organized under the supervision of divisional child protection officer T.R.C.M. Senarathne. Deputy General Manager (legal) of the foreign Employment Bureau attorney Rohan Wijesena and SLFEB’s North Central Provincial Senior Manager H.M. Sunil were also present.

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