National Director of the Child Fund Sri Lanka Guru Naik said that the Child Fund Interenational is active in 56 countries. The CCF presence in Sri Lanka was ushered in 1985. The Child Fund International with a budget of USD 4.5 million will be known as the Child Fund Sri Lanka from next month. There is a shift of strategy with the new corporate branding.The Child Fund Sri Lanka works amongst children, adolescents and school children. Emphasis will be placed on early childhood development. In Sri Lanka, although there is a high literacy rate, the segment of secondary education is weak, hence there is the need for renewed focus to improve secondary education. Towards this end the Child Fund Sri Lanka will renew focus on skills development, carrier guidance programmes including in the IDP camps where there are 28,000 children. In the North two large projects would be implemented, Naik said.