Idea 490 of 500. Cluster 27: The north and the east
Technical colleges in Jaffna and Batticaloa funded by families abroad, with the employers at the table
The mechanism, from the book
The land, the lagoons and the savings of families abroad are waiting. What comes first is the small business.
Every idea in cluster 27 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Ask the managers of 5 employers in Jaffna or Batticaloa which skilled roles they cannot fill, and how many people they would hire next year if trained ones existed. Write down each answer. Take the list to a Sri Lankan association abroad and ask whether its members would fund one short course in the most-wanted trade. An employer's written promise to interview graduates is the proof that matters.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan association abroad that wants its giving to produce jobs rather than buildings, and funds a course because an employer has promised to hire from it.
- What leaves today
- Young people in the north and east leave to find skills and work elsewhere, while local employers bring in trained workers from outside.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
Jaffna in what we have already built - Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
A nurse who comes home with a credential and not only savings
More from cluster 27
- 486Palmyrah co-operatives owning the processing, the way the coconut list works for the south
- 487Jaffna heritage stays in the old Dutch and Jaffna houses, restored by the families abroad
- 488Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu farm co-operatives with a cold chain to Colombo
- 489Batticaloa lagoon tourism: the singing fish, the kayaks, the prawns, sold as a week
- 491Trincomalee's Dutch fort and Koneswaram as one managed site, with a shop and a guide service
- 492Passikudah as a family resort town with the standard set by the residents, not the chains
Idea 490 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.