Ape Amma
Ape Amma (born on 1959) is a retired teacher [1](she is 61 years old in 2020) and a Sri lankan culinary expert and founder of the cooking website, ApeAmma.com, and a YouTube personality, she became known for her online recipe channel on YouTube, which she uploaded her first video to youtube on December 21st 2016, by 2020 she has over 1.42 million subscribers . She also hosts two other channels called, "Ape Amma Vidyalaya" and "Inspiring Mom".
Ape Amma | ||||||||||
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| Born | 1959 | |||||||||
| Origin | Colombo, Sri lanka | |||||||||
| Nationality | Sri Lankan | |||||||||
| Occupation | Government Trained Teacher | |||||||||
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channel | ||||||||||
| Website | http://www.apeamma.com | |||||||||
| Years active | 2016-present | |||||||||
| Genre | Cooking | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 1.42 million (June 2020) | |||||||||
| Total views | 248 million (June 2020) | |||||||||
| Catchphrase(s) | Ayubowan! Ape Amma Youtube channel ekata obawa adarayen piligannawa. | |||||||||
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Early life[edit]
Ape Amma was born in Colombo. She was really interested in cooking from her childhood. She lived walking distance to the Port of Colombo, people from different communities around Sri Lanka and India specially Telugu and Malayalam speaking community, lived close to the Port of Colombo. So many families living around this area cooked different dishes from different communities. Because she lived together with many families like that, so she had to practice to cook different recipes from different cultures from small days. And her grandfather used to practice Sri lankan folk medicine, so she got more knowledge about folk medicine from her mother.
She was the youngest girl in the family, her mother was busy most of the time because she was doing sari embroidery at home, and was a big help to her mother in cooking because her elder sisters were in studying in hostels. She was able to cook by her own at the age of 11.[2] Her sisters weren't able to cook because they took hostel education. She was a very social kid in childhood and used to participate in event in the church, the temple and the kovil, and lived together with a diverse community.
Career[edit]
Ape Amma is a trained government teacher (1st Rank teacher) in Sri lanka, She has also learned child psychology, mass communication and during her special teaching training period, After she got her teaching appointment she worked in many different schools in different parts on Sri lanka (both difficult rural areas and in towns) during her teaching carrier. She used to teach different subjects in those schools also worked as home science teacher.
She has worked as a scouting teacher ranked up to wood badge in Sri lanka.
After she retired from teaching in government school, she started teaching in the official language department of Sri lanka to government servants. After she completely retired from government work, she started the Youtube channel in 21st December 2016.
Youtube Success.[edit]
Most of content in Ape Amma channel is done in Sinhalese, but since many videos have subtitles included, even the Tamils and Muslim community follows recipes of Ape Amma too. She has two other channels one in English called "Inspiring Mom[3]" and another kids channel called "Ape Amma Vidyalaya[4]" specially made for school kids. Her specialty is she doesn't use artificial flavors on her lunch menus. Another special thing is that she also teachers food processing and storing methods not just cooking recipes. And after 3 and half years doing Youtube channels she has has crossed 248 million views with 1,425,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 videos. (by June 2020) Her main aim in Youtube is to stop people from eating from takeaways and
help them make all the tasty dishes at home. It's clear that this effort has been successful because of the number of subscribers and views this channel is gaining daily.
Award and Honors[edit]
2017 Youtuber silver award[5]
2018 Social Media day awarded [6]the "Most Popular channel for Original content"
2020 Youtube Gold Award[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ↑ ✔ අපේ අම්මාගේ විස්තර දැනගන්න Know more about Apé Amma(Eng Subtitles), retrieved 2020-06-24
- ↑ Mom, Inspiring. "YouTube channel". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Apé Amma Vidyalaya". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
- ↑ ✔ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අපේ අම්මා චැනලයට ලැබුණු සම්මානය. Youtube Silver Play button Award to Apé Amma Channel, retrieved 2020-06-24
- ↑ Dedigama, Maneesha (July 9, 2018). "Etisalat Social Media Day – 2018". GGSLK. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ ✔ අපේ අම්මාට ඇමරිකාවෙන් යුටියුබ් රන් සම්මානය ගෙදරටම ඇවිල්ලා Apé Amma received the Youtube Gold Award, retrieved 2020-06-24
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