Center for Community Development

o ethnicity- language –religion and conflicts deeply embedding destabilized confidence and tension among groups. While youth unrest emerged in 1971 in the form of insurrection in the South the freedom seekers in the North and East entered into a battle with the forces which had continued for the last three decades. Both incidents had created huge amount of damages to the lives of the people their living means, infra-structure and the unity of the people within different ethnic groups. Poverty in Sri Lanka like in other countries has its own characteristics and dimensions. Other than income poverty the community also suffers due to other setbacks such as social, human, physical, and environmental poverty too. CCD was formed to work with the people as a social entity to act on socio/economic /development of the people in the form of a nonprofit- nonpolitical institution.