Date : 2024.03.21
Settlement : Kaduwela – walihinda
Duties : Short term vocational training and skill development programme
Date: 2024.03.20
Settlement : Kaduwela-Walihinda
Duties : Conducting the monthly meeting of the community society and informing about the programs to be held
: Youth and Children development programme
: Establishing library
Date : 2024.03.20
Settlement : Kaduwela-Boralugoda
Duties : Short term vocational training and skill Development programme
Sponsorship : Youth service officers
Participants : 15
Date : 2024.03.19
Settlement : Mattakkuliya-Randiya uyana
Duties : Drug prevention and rehabilitation programme (part 1)
Sponsorship – ADIC
Date : 2024.03.19
Settlement : Mattakkuliya – Muwadora uyana
Duties : Conducting the monthly meeting of the community society and informing about the programs to be held.
: Small Group and cash management programme
Date : 2024/03/17
Settlement : Ganemulla – North
Duties : Drug prevention and rehabilitation programme for children camp
Participants : 51
Date : 2024/02/10
Settlement : Maligawaththa- Lakhiru sewana
Duties : Conducting the monthly meeting of the community society and informing about the programs to be held.
: Awareness about the programs to be held for the children’s club.
Date : 2024/02/11
Settlement : Kaduwela – Boralugoda
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs
: Youth and Children development programme
Date : 2024/02/11
Settlement : Muwadora uyana
Time : 9.00 a.m.
Duties : Carrying out a charity programme under the leadership and guidance of the U.S.D.A. with the participation of the council and the community police
Date : 2024/02/11
Settlement : Rathnapura – Madampe
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs and discuss about Humanity development programme
: Small Group and cash management programme
Date : 2024/02/09
Settlement : Muwadora uyana
Time : 3.30 p.m.
Duties : Youth and Children development programme
Participants : 80
Date : 2024/02/09
Settlement : Muwadora uyana
Duties : Community members meeting
(A & B block)
Date : 2024.02.04
Settlement : Agulana – Sayurupura
Duties : The children’s club organized an independence day celebration.
Date : 2024.02.04
Settlement : Dompe – Kuttiwila
Duties : Sri Rathna children’s club independence day celebrations
Date : 2024.02.03
Settlement : Diwlapitiya – Madikale watta
Duties : The cricket match was held between the 03 children’s clubs with the intervention of the children society and community society of the Settlement.
Date : 2024.02.03
Settlement : Kolonnawa- Sanhinda sewana
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs and discuss about Humanity development programme.
: Youth and Children development programme
Date : 2024.02.03
Settlement : kalaniya – Galboralla
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs and discuss about Humanity development programme
: Small Group and cash management programme
Date : 2024.02.03
Settlement : Kalaniya – Gangarakshithaya
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs
Date : 2024.02.03
Settlement : Kalaniya – Gangarakshithaya & Galboralla
Duties : The national day event was successfully held in conjunction with the national day with the aim of developing the knowledge, skills & attitude of the children
Date : 2024.02.02
Settlement : Lakhiru Sewana
Duties : Under the Community Health Promotional Programme for children dental clinic
Participants : 56
Date : 2024.02.02
Settlement : Katharagama- Gothameegama
Duties : Information and functioning of CBOs
: Small Group and cash management programme
: Youth and Children development programme
: Providing Financial Aid for Small scale Entrepreneurs
Date : 2024.02.01
Settlement : Hambantota- Sunamigama
Duties: Youth and Children development programme
: Small Group and cash management programme
Date : 2024.02.02
Settlement : Kolonnawa- Laksanda Sewana
Duties : Youth and Children development programme
Participants : 90
Date : 2024.01.28
Settlement : Laksanda Sewana
Duties : Formation and functioning of CBOs and informing about Humanity development programme .
Participants – 31
USDA Climate change programmes were conducted in UDA Lakhiru Sewana Housing scheme in Maligawatta (Colombo District) and Samurdhigama , Minuwangoda (Gampaha District)on 26th January 2023 with the participation of 50 children
Date : 2024.01.24
Settlement : Muslim weediya – Tangalle
Duties :Youth and Children development programme
:Self- employment and entrepreneurship development programme (Follow-up the self- employed conducting activities)
Participants – 23
Date : 2024.01.24
Settlement : kaduwela – walihinda
Duties : Formation and functioning of CBOs
: Youth and children development programme and inspecting the preparations for the ‘Rantharu Raguman’ variety show
Date : 2024.01.24
Settlement : Kolonnawa – wadugodawatta
Duty : Drug prevention and Rehabilitation Programme – For children society
Sponsorship : Alcohol & drug information center (ADIC)
Participants : 41
Date : 2024.01.24
Settlement : Kolonnawa – wadugodawatta
Duties :Formation and functioning of CBOs
:Small Group Cash Management Programme
Participants : 30
“Ran tharu Raguman-2024 “
Variety show Organized by the swashakthi community society and Rantharu children’s club of welihinda – kaduwela settlement to be held on 30 th of january 2024.
Date : 2024. 01.23
Settlement : Lakhiru Sewana
Duty : Youth and Children development programme
Participants : 17
Date : 2024.01.23
Settlement : Muwadora uyana
Time : 4.30 p.m
Duties :Community development programme : To establish community society the informing about Humanity development programme.
Date : 2024.01.23
Settlement : Aththanagalla – Dematalanda
Duties : Formation and functioning of CBOs
: Small group cash management programme
:youth and children development programme
A Library for the Ran Kakulu Chidrens club was established on 16.01.2024 in Batalawatta, Kaduwela settlement in Colombo District. This was a collaboratively initiated by USDA and the Department of Demography, University of Colombo
Progress of the Small-scale Entrepreneurship and Children’s Programmes were reviewed during a meeting held on 16.01.2024 with the participation of 7 small-scale entrepreneurs and 41 children in Madikalewatta settlement in Gampaha District.
Electing of new members for year 2024 for the Children Society (with the participation of 53 children) and a Small Group programme.
A two day capacity building workshop on ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’ in urban underserved settlements in Sri Lanka was held at Waters Edge Hotel on 23rd and 24th October sponsored by UNICEF Sri Lanka.
The occasion where the chairman of USDA participated in the engineering and technical exhibition (Techno – 2023) organized by the Sri Lanka Institute of Engineering (IESL).
The National Celebration of World Habitat Day was held under the leadership of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Auditorium on the 11th floor, Sethsiripaya (Stage 2), Battaramulla.
The Urban Settlement Development Authority (USDA),which was established in 2008 by Parliament Act No. 36 of 2008, is an institution functioning under the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing. The formulation of national policy in relation to urban settlement development and ensuring implementation of such policy, along with the provision of improvements to the living conditions of people in underserved settlements, are the interconnected twin objectives of the establishment of USDA.