Volunteers
Royal College Steps Up
On the 29th and 30th over a 100 students, 10 teachers and the Principal of Royal College volunteered at the Sarvodaya headquarters, where they unloaded, sorted and loaded trucks with relief supplies. Students ranging from the ages of 14-18 hauled heavy loads of dry rations and medical supplies on to trucks headed to Ampara, Kilinochchi […]
Volunteers
Project Trust Arrives at Sarvodaya
Project Trust students have been working side by side, unloading, hauling, separating and packaging donated items such as clothes, dry rations, bottled drinking water, medical supplies, sanitation supplies, and various other emergency housing supplies. Project Trust is a program that includes 17 students ranging from 17 to 19 years of age from England, Scotland and […]
Distributions
Distribution of Donations
As boxes and boxes of individual, group and corporate donations reach at the Sarvodaya National Headquarters in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, volunteers ranging from young children to adults gather to unload, haul, haul, separate, organize, record and package all the dry rations, medical supplies, clothes, housing supplies and other emergency supplies needed for daily existence. As […]
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The Development Model
*Shramadana* means “sharing work, knowledge, talents, and time.” The aim of the Movement is to use shared work, voluntary giving and sharing of resources to achieve the personal and social awakening of everyone ~ from the individual, to the village, and continuing up to the international level. ‘Awakening’ means developing human potential, and is a […]
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Sarvodaya History
The Sarvodaya Shramadana movement started 47 years ago. Beginning in just one village and extending the movement to a total of more than 15,000 has been a fascinating adventure. Initially, it involved an education program aimed at enabling students and teachers to live and work with the most remote village communities in Sri Lanka, to […]
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Sarvodaya Suwasetha
The Suwasetha is Sarvodaya’s programme of health, nutrition, general care and rehabilitation for disadvantaged groups. It includes orphans, senior citizens, the homeless, and the physically and mentally handicapped. The overriding objective of Suwasetha is to improve the general condition, standard of living, and quality of life of the most disadvantaged and neglected human beings in […]