Literacy Rates of Sri Lanka Do Not Reflect Quality of Education

Education is a key factor that contributes towards shaping the future generation of the country. Education does not mean the literacy rates we have achieved. Education should be the means to develop the total personality of young generation which should include initiative, creativity, discipline, team spirit, cultural values, religious values, respect and tolerance for others.

Sri Lanka boast of 92% literacy rate, 98% of the population completing primary education and 88% of the population completing secondary education in 2007 according to the 2009 Human Development Report. Yet the issues of unemployment, youth unrest, civil violence and poverty level of the country indicates that the country has not been able to deliver quality education that contributes towards total personality development.

Are Streets The Only Option for the Homeless?

Seeing people sleeping on the streets is a common site particularly in urban roads of Colombo. These people receive no attention of most by passers. In case if Police officers come across a person sleeping or begging in streets, they could be arrested according to the vagrants act. 


Thinking about the street dwellers, many questions came to my mind, for which I do not have proper answers-

Begging for Health

Right to health is a basic human right and Sri Lanka boasts of having a free health care system. Is the Sri Lankan health care system truely free and accessible for all? The picture dipicts an elderly person begging in front of a traffic post for an eye transplant.