21st July 2009
Sri Lanka earned a massive foreign exchange of three billion US dollars last year through income generated from migrant workers.
Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare said a sizable quantum of this sum had been remitted through women domestic workers employed overseas.
He claimed that Sri Lanka was the first nation to formulate a National Policy on Labor Force in Asia.
The minister pointed out that children of migrant workers annually recieved scholarship to the value of Rs. 40 million through the scheme generated by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment set up to protect and promote welfare of those children.
Meanwhile, the ministry has entered into an agreement with Libya for employment for medical staff and nurses.
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