Donations

Sarvodaya plans to rebuild thousands of houses, with the support of Holcim. In this plan, Sarvodaya will cover all affected areas with its holistic approach of rebuilding places of worship, community centers, water systems, sanitation and educational facilities. In short, rebuilding communities. Towards, this end Holcim is generously offering its financial, material, and technical support. […]

Ms. Anni Gsell, Managing Director of Na Tour (One of the Biggest tour operators) visited Sarvodaya last week. Na Tour is based in Switzerland and specializes in Aurvedic Resorts in Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives. She was one of the first to include Sarvodaya on her company web site requesting to make contributions directly […]

The United Sri Lanka Association of New Zealand (USLA) has donated Sarvodaya with further 267,000 Dollars (Approx. 18.4 Million rupees) to be utilised in the SARVODAYA Tsunami relief effort. This is in addition to the one million rupees, handed over to Dr. A.T Ariyaratne by USLA president, Chanaka Batuwantudawe on the 03rd January 2005. This […]

Sarvodaya operates on a grassroots level throughout Sri Lanka. It’s Operations Center is in Moratuwa, near Colombo. Today we had volunteers from ‘Travellers’ helping pack goods for distribution to the coast. They are pictured here in the background, at the center of the open Octagon that is Sarvodaya Central. If you’d like to get to […]

Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) presents 2 Bristol-Myers Squibb ‘medical mission boxes’ to Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne, Sarvodaya Executive Director. Each mission box contains approximately $20,000 worth of medicines and medical supplies (wholesale value) and together can be used to treat more than 500 patients. These efforts were coordinated by Direct Relief International “Direct Relief’s role and […]

Note: The interview was actually with Sarvodaya President Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne. The mention of Dr. Vinya is an error in the CNN Rush Transcript. KING: Joining us by beeper (ph) phone from Sri Lanka is Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne. He is executive director of Savodaya. That’s the nongovernmental community development organization working with Direct Relief International. […]

Sarvodaya would like to thank US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for his generous donation from the World Hope Foundation. These are Dr. Frist’s words: Earlier this afternoon in a small village in Sri Lanka I hand-delivered $25,000 from the World of Hope Foundation directly to Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne and his wife, founders of […]

sarvodaya-ibm-ariyaratne The IBM Crisis Response Team of Dr. Thomas Phelan, Mark Prutasalis, and Mahen Samaranayaka visited Sarvodaya Tsunamis Disaster Relief Centre today to meet with Dr. AT Ariyaratne Founder ~ President of Sarvodaya, and the staff.

sarvodaya-japan Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne would like to thank Ichiro Ota and Kiyoshi Takaichi of the Grand Holy Temple in Japan for their generous donation and kind support.

Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne would like to thank the United Sri Lanka Association of New Zealand for their generous donation of Rs. 1,000,000 (10,000 USD). “Sri Lankans of all ethnic and religious groups from the wider NZ community have generously contributed to this fund, and have identified your organization to be the best recipient of this […]