1 December 2016 05:13 pm
Thirty-one-year-old Shalika Navodani of Belwood Estate in Galaha graduated from the Buddhist and Pali University in 2013. Navodani, a mother of two boys, today assists her husband in cattle farming and her Bachelor of Arts certificate could be seen hanging on one of the wall of their wattle and daub house. Her numerous attempts to secure a job by sitting for a variety of exams and applying for vacancies have not borne fruit.
“It was my husband who paid for my higher studies from whatever he earned from cattle farming. I’m not giving up. I want to help him in anyway I can. I may not be able to help him with my education but I can help him in his occupation,” Navodani said. She said she hung her degree certificate on one of the outside walls because of the pain she is in and not because she wanted to belittle her achievement.
Video by Chamil Rupasingha