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Young Entrepreneur Sri Lanka Awards tomorrow
Educating and inspiring young people to value free enterprise, understand business and be work force ready is the vision of Young Entrepreneur Sri Lanka (YESL), a non-profit organisation introduced to Sri Lanka in 1998.

Their mission? To provide young Sri Lankans with practical economic programmes and experiences in the private enterprise system through a partnership with the business and education communities.

The Sixth Annual Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ceremony is to be held tomorrow at the BMICH. Dr Tara De Mel, Secretary to the Ministry of Education, will be Chief Guest and Mahendra Amarasuriya, Chairman of Joint Business Forum and Chairman of Commercial Bank will be Guest of Honour.

Forty trophies will be awarded to the outstanding young entrepreneurs from 22 school companies from regional schools, including rural areas.

This year's panel of judges include Susil Siriwardane - Ex Commissioner, Poverty Alleviation, Janasaviya, Sita Yahampath, Managing Director of Kandygs (Export) Ltd and former Chairperson of the Women's Chamber of Commerce, and A.H.M.R.B. Abeyratne, Project Director of the Business Studies Division of the National Institute of Education, Maharagama. YESL President Patrick Amarasinghe and Dayani Edirisinghe, National Coordinator YESL assisted the panel.

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