WHY NOT SRI LANKA? සිංහල

Why Not Sri Lanka

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About 1.5 million Sri Lankans live in the countries that worked it out. Between us we know how they price, sell, build, train and trade, and nobody at home can buy that knowledge. We carry it for nothing.

What we are trying to do

Sri Lanka is not short of things the world wants. It has the purest graphite on earth and earns about $5 million a year from it. It grows true cinnamon and earns less from it than Vietnam earns from cassia, the cheaper bark sold in its place. The gap is not what the island has. It is knowing how to turn it into something the world pays a proper price for: how to grade it, label it, price it, sell it and train people for it, the way successful countries do.

About 1.5 million Sri Lankans live in those countries. Between us we already know how it is done there. My book, WHY NOT SRI LANKA?, ends with 500 businesses anyone at home could start. The Table is how the people starting them reach the people who know: someone at home asks a question, and the Sri Lankan abroad who knows the answer helps. Not with money. With what you know, whom you know, and how it is done where you live.

You answer only the questions you choose. You are never listed anywhere: not on this site, not to other members, not to the people who ask.

Dr Maheshika Halbeisen, author of WHY NOT SRI LANKA?

How it works

  1. You join. Say your field, your country and what you could offer.
  2. Someone at home asks. A person starting one of the 500 ideas sends a question.
  3. It reaches the right members. Each question goes to the members who chose that area. Whoever wants to answer does. Nobody has to.
  4. The answer goes home. Straight to the person who asked, by email.
How you would help (tick any)
Areas you know (tick any)

Your email address is never shown to anyone, on the site or to the people you help, unless you choose to share it.

Your privacy

Members are never listed anywhere. Not on this site, not to each other, not to the people who ask. There is no directory to browse and nothing to copy.

Each question reaches you in an email of its own, so nobody sees who else received it. Your answer goes to the person who asked without your email address, unless you tick the box to share it.

Everything you enter is kept in one private file that only the author can open. When the book goes to the people who lead the country, they will hear how many of us there are, never who. Every email has a one-click way to leave, and you can ask for everything to be deleted. Privacy.

Live in Sri Lanka and starting something? Ask The Table a question.