Our beginning

We are a group of scattered individuals who had the common desire to unite and help the needy in the Northern and Eastern part of Sri Lanka in ways we know how from the medical perspective. We have talked about it amongst ourselves for years but nothing had come of it until one person took the initiative and leadership to get us together and help forge an organization. This person is Dr.Santhakuamar, and he deserves our praise and gratitude and we are also indebted to Dr.Sivarajani Indrajith for assisting him.

We met on August 21, 2004 in Toronto as the “inaugural meeting” and JMFOA was born. We had our first elected committee with Dr.Somesan as its first president. Since then we have drafted the constitution and other infrastructure development so that the foundation is laid for us to become stronger and grow faster.

It’s amazing that we have come a long way from the time we inaugurated our organization in 2004 , after almost 42 years of the establishment of our beloved medical school. During this time we managed to expand the boundaries to include several chapters (UK/Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.) with several members joining our organization through successfully organized sessions and effective networking.   Another mile stone was achieved by the untiring effort of Dr.Somesan, who worked to ensure that Continuing Medical Education (CME) hours during our Annual General Meeting (AGM) scientific session lectures would be accredited from the Florida Medical Council.

We were able to initiate, continue and complete several projects successfully through the hardworking committee and generous membership as well as supportive donors and well- wishers. Thanks for the ground work done by the pioneer committees to get the most needed nonprofit status in the United States of America, Canada, UK as well as Australia/NZ.