News/2020/2020.02.22

Heritage Exhibition was conducted by Noolaham Foundation at Jaffna Hindu College's prayer hall. They exhibited the book/magazines/newspapers/palmyra or ola leaves collections which are about 200 years of age, oral history procedures along with demonstrating how to access noolaham.org and aavanaham.org web-pages.

On 22nd the Exhibition was started by appreciating and honoring the person who donated and helped in giving the documents for Noolaham to digitize. Following that, both 2 days from 1.30 to 3.30 discussions on preserving our heritage were held. We could able to witness lots of both younger generation people engaged in checking out the exhibition.

Most people were so excited to see how palmyra leaves/ola leaves are been digitized in Noolaham. Dr.Green's (from the United States) book collections were able to be found at the exhibition. Dr.Green who learned Tamil Language and translated lots of medicine and chemistry-related notes from English to Tamil. Similarly, Magazines and newspapers of long time published materials were exhibited with descriptions for the easiness of the audience.