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6 unusual facts about Colombo Plan


Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr

She appeared as an official French-English interpreter at more than 30 international conferences over ten years, including Colombo Plan meetings.

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Yeo Cheow Tong (Singapore), former Cabinet Minister in Singapore.

Gary Yia Lee

In 1965, after winning a Colombo Plan scholarship, he traveled to Australia instead to finish high school

Judith Adams

She joined the New Zealand Territorial Army as a nursing sister in 1963, and was later posted to Vietnam as a civilian nurse under the Colombo Plan during the Vietnam War.

Philip Yeo

Yeo graduated in 1970 in Applied Science (Industrial Engineering) from the University of Toronto under a Colombo Plan scholarship.

Rosalinda Baldoz

She had received two scholarships grants in industrial relations: a Colombo Plan scholarship in Australia and a US Agency for International Development (USAID) scholarship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.


Livy Wijemanne

Wijemanne worked very closely with the Australian administrator, Clifford Dodd who came to Radio Ceylon under the Colombo Plan.

M. J. Perera

Clifford Dodd, an Australian administrator, was appointed (via the Colombo Plan) as the first Director of the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon and he contributed to the station's popularity across the Indian sub-continent.

Yeo Cheow Tong

Yeo was educated at Anglo-Chinese School, before receiving a Colombo Plan Scholarship in 1967 to study at the University of Western Australia, where he received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree.


see also

AIIMS, New Delhi

AIIMS was inaugurated in 1956, and was built with a grant from the Government of New Zealand under the Colombo Plan.