The first batch of 200 young girls and boys living in the Batticaloa District began their vocational training at The Marvell Sarvodaya Vocational Training Centre immediately the day after the centre was officially opened in Satturukondan on Wednesday 23rd January 2008.

This Workshop is being jointly run by Sarvodaya and the Durham University Project Sri Lanka. It will bring together academics and other professionals from various fields and disciplines. Their common focus will be on the contribution of the human and social sciences to issues of human well-being, including medical and environmental issues.

The first-ever research publication by Fusion, titled “Noise at the Last Mile”, has been ceremonially launched at the Partnership Pavilion at GK3 Malaysia. The research publication, which was dedicated to the late Prof. V. K. Samaranayake, is a synthesis of multiple socio-anthropological and technological research projects carried out by four independent research teams on two ‘Virtual Villages’ implemented in Meewala of the Gampaha district and Kuda Oya of the Nuwara Eliya district in Sri Lanka.