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Inaugurated in 1981, OSMET (Overseas Sri Lankan Muslim Educational Trust) provides higher education scholarships to under-privileged Sri Lankan Muslims in the fields of Science, IT, Engineering and Medicine. To date OSMET has been able to assist over 600 students in one form or another. Their goal is to become one of the premier scholarship funds in Sri Lanka.
OSMET is a UK registered charity and also registered in Sri Lanka as a recognised charity. Presently 95 students with the help of OSMET grants are following courses in schools and universities in Sri Lanka. Twenty-eight students successfully completed their University degrees and twenty students completed their GCE Advanced levels. Well over 600 students have benefited through our assistance in one form or other
OSMET philosophy is very simple. We aim to provide long-term solutions to poor Muslim students. One thing holds true i.e. that youngsters don’t want to live on handouts. They just want to earn a living and a chance to work their own way out of poverty and to lead independent lives and to help their families. OSMET is committed to make this happen.
