1st Place – Ai Wade 2nd Place – Unlimited 3rd Place – House Wife Jury Awards 1. Lesson of the cup Short Listed 1. House Husband Velay the job Pathivirathai A Dream Chandrawankaya

Zoom chat: Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka with Manik Gunarathne ‘‘බොහෝ ආබාධිත ළමයි බලාගන්න දෙමවුපියන් කියන දෙයක් තමයි අපිට කලින් මේ ළමයි මැරිලා යනවානම් හොඳයි කියන එක. හේතුව ඔවුන්ගෙන් පසුව මේ ආබාධිත ළමයි බලාගන්න කෙනෙක් නැහැ, ලංකාවේ ඒකට ක‍්‍රමයකුත් නැහැ’’ – මැණික් ගුණරත්න

Eranga Meegasdeniya interviews Yogeshwari Krishnan, Secretary, of the Working Women’s Front. She is also part of the women’s trade union in the country. “රටේ නීති සහ ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති ඒ ඒ කාලය අනුව වෙනස් කරන එක යුතුකමක්. එහෙම නැතිව කඳුකරයේ ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ගේ ප‍්‍රශ්න ගැන කතා කරලා විතරක් සමාජ සංවර්ධනය ඇති කරන්න බැහැ.” – යෝගේෂ්වරී ක‍්‍රිෂ්ණන්, ප‍්‍රධාන ලේකම්, වැඩ … Continue reading Zoom chat: Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka with Yogeshwari Krishnan

A chat with Dr. Sepali Kottegoda, Director Programmes, WMC, on the impacts of COVID-19 on Unpaid Carework in Sri Lanka. Moderated by Eranga Meegasdeniya.

“பெண்கள் வீட்டில் செய்யும் சகல வேலைகளிலிருந்து ஒரு வேலையும் செய்யாமல் ஒரு கிழமை இருந்தால் நாட்டுக்கு என்ன நடக்கும்?” ஊதியமற்ற வேலைச் சுமையை அதிகரித்த கொரோனா – இலங்கையில் ஊதியமற்ற பராமரிப்பு வேலை பற்றிய zoom கலந்துரையாடல்

The mulititude of unpaid care work women engage in all their lives go largely unnoticed Merry Christmas! සුභ නත්තලක් වේවා! இனிய கிறிஸ்மஸ் நல்வாழ்துக்கள்!

Wishing everyone a wonderful and safe Diwali! Our special thanks to Sujan Sugumaran, Niranjani Shanmugaraja, R. Iven and V. Madhunisha

The Women and Media Collective’s Short Film Competition received many wonderful screenplays, the screenwriters who were shortlisted received a two-day training program on script writing and directing. The training program, which maintained social distancing precautions, was held on the 28th and 29th of August in Colombo. Veteran award winning director and lecturer of film studies, … Continue reading Training on script writing – Short Film Competition

Send in your scripts for the WMC short film competition 2020 The themes for this year are: Housework is also work The value of unpaid care work Download the application form here Description on Unpaid care work Short film on Unpaid care work : Application form   Description on Unpaid care work Short film on Unpaid care … Continue reading WMC short film competition 2020

Without designating care work as women’s work let’s recognize all care work done by women during the Christmas and new year season. Let’s value care work. Let’s share the work equally.