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Sithmi Attanayake, UN Community Volunteer, spoke at an agriculture
support session for urban home gardening in Sri Lanka. [UNV, 2023]
Tharudini Ekneligoda, V-Force Volunteer (centre), distributed lunch packs at
the Youth Forum in Sri Lanka. [UNV, 2023]

Sithmi Attanayake served community members in the urban areas of The service of UN Community Volunteers was complemented by 70 V-Force
Colombo, namely Nagaswatte and Kirula D4. She also organized awareness Volunteers. Tharudini Ekneligoda was one of them, who supported the low-income
sessions on sexual and reproductive health for women and youth. Actively communities by providing them with lunch packs. Along with the UN Community
reaching out on issues of stigma like gender-based violence, Sithmi Volunteer Peer Educators, she visited Wellawatta communities in Colombo to
expanded support for women in the form of sisterhood circles where evaluate the progress of home gardens.
participants opened up and spoke with one voice.