Programs

Our programs are designed as a bottom-up response to our experiences on the ground. Because our co-founders are native to Sri Lanka, sharing language and cultural ties to the people we serve, there is the best possible connection between needs on the ground and the policy of our organization. We invest in people to create profitable income-earning opportunities that teach individuals to believe in their own abilities and become economically empowered and self sufficient. We have an opportunity to change the quality of life for multiple generations.

Since the 2004 tsunami, our programs have been directed at those who need it the most. Our relief efforts have been addressing malnutrition; supporting healthcare; resupplying water, food and sanitation infrastructures; providing school supplies; establishing scholarships for tertiary education; investing in microfinance projects; and planting 10,000 trees with our reforestation project. In its first two years of operation, our school lunch program built a kitchen, served over 50,000 hot meals, and raised school attendance by 25 percent, becoming one of the highest impact relief programs in the tsunami-effected village.