Jesse Cusic Nashville, Tennessee, USA 14-2-2005 I was not able to sleep on the night train from Colombo to Trincomalee. As I sat in my seat watching the fields of rice and sleepy villages pass I asked myself 'what is disaster relief?' I had arrived in Sri Lanka five days prior with three of my friends. We had come here to purify water for people in ...
Today Sarvodaya Staff held an early morning meditation in the Vishva Nekitan Center. A crucial part of Sarvodaya Philosophy is that you must start with yourself to have peace in the world. This meditation was one small step towards the greater goal. Sarvodaya President and Founder Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne spoke at the gathering, as did Jacqueline Bennett, one of the original supporters who helped build ...
Hendala Palliyawatte Church Saturday 12th February 2005 Report by Dr Fiona Smith I participated in one of two medical clinics set up to treat local people affected by the tsunami in a district north of Colombo. These clinics were coordinated by the Gampaha District Sarvodaya centre, with volunteers from the Sarvodaya Shanti Sena unit as staff. I spent the day helping seven Sri Lankan doctors and a number of other volunteers who dispensed the medicines we prescribed and ...
Krishna has finished uploading Volume 1 of the biography of Sarvodaya President and Founder, Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne. For a look at the man behind the Sarvodaya Movement please have a look through these pages: Bhava Thana: An Autobiography This book is actually a condensed compilation of my diary entries made daily and other stray records kept by me that run to about 10,000 pages. To encapsulate all this voluminous material in a character sketch proved ...
The image at left is a Buddhist icon from Thailand which washed ashore near Batticaloa. The image at right is Fiona unloading goods from a truck in Kalmunai Batticaloa Photo Gallery (68 photos) - Slideshow Kalmunai Photo Gallery (117 photos) - Slideshow This article is kindly written by Fiona Smith, a Doctor ...
Women work together to cook for all the people in this Moratuwa camp. Two Sarvodaya volunteers went along with Mr & Mrs. I.K.Weerawardena and Indrani de Silva to help distribute uniforms to children in one of the Moratuwa camps. Children's sizes and names had been noted at an earlier visit, allowing for every child to receive an appropriate uniform. ...
Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf (Sarvodaya Sawan Sahana Sewa) Hoofd: Tineke de Silva-Nijkamp 14/2, Andiris de Silva Mawatha, Rawatawatta, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Tel/Fax: +94-2655786 E-Mail: tineke@panlanka.net Website: www.sarvodaya.org/sawan-sahana Dear Friends, We are very happy that our school building has not been damaged by the Tsunami and most of all that nobody of our students or staff members are killed. However, the houses and inventory of 3 of our deaf students have been damaged or completely destroyed. These families live in refugee camps now. The deaf ...
Hier zijn de kinderen in actie tijdens een tekenles. Children at the Sawan Sahana Deaf School taking drawing lessons. ...
_This is an archived article by Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne_ In the late 1950s we started a movement calling people to join us and give at least 10 days of labor a year to the poorest villages in Sri Lanka. Principally, it was an educational extension, because I was a teacher and I wanted students to know the reality of our village people. Within a couple of years, we realized ours was the largest people’s participatory ...
On the path to Deshodaya: moving from Phase I to Phase II of the 5R program February 2, 2005 Colombo, Sri Lanka: Dr. Ariyaratne addressed all Sarvodaya field workers today, and spoke about Sarvodaya’s plans for long-term rehabilitation and reawakening of tsunami-affected people. What follows is a synopsis of his talk. The first phase of the 5R (Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Reawakening) Program compromises of immediate relief to affected families. In the last month, Sarvodaya has reached ...
