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The Buddhist Association of Japan, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, honoured Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, the founder-president of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement by awarding the 45^th Annual Cultural Award for the Promotion of Buddhism in the World…

A visit from the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, H.E. Ashok K. Kantha, to Sarvodaya’s Headquarters saw the diplomat tour the organizations’ numerous divisions..

On the 14th May, 2011, Sarvodaya’s partnered with the Siseth Foundation to celebrate the 2011 Vesak celebrations. Sarvodaya’s founder, Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne was invited to lead a special meditation program followed by a lecture on universal cooperation.

The tragic events that stuck Japan on Friday 11th March have caused all those at Sarvodaya to feel a great deal of empathy towards those trying to cope with the disaster and to assist in relief efforts in Japan..

Sarvodaya-AJJDC Community Disaster Management Center organized and successfully implemented a  comprehensive training course recently in deep water rescue and life saving..

International Health University and Sarvodaya and Health Action International-Asia Pacific (HAIAP) conduct ‘the Struggle for Health’ training..

The youth members of Shanthisena from Matara and Monaragala visited Mannar and Jafna respectively. The atmosphere was ideal after the 30 year scourge of war to hold this gathering with a view of bringing the youth of the South and the North under the Heart to Heart initiative that enabled them to solve their problems […]

A magnanimous thought born in the mind of one human being fifty years ago was transformed into action and developed into what is today a dynamic national people’s movement..

Sarvodaya celebrated the Gandhi Anniversay which falls of 2nd of October 2009 by inaugurating a village water scheme. The village of Serupitiya is a rural hamlet in the Nuwara Eliya District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Clean drinking water has been an acute need for this community for a very long time. The […]

Sarvodaya has been in the forefront of the recent emergency response to the massive displacement in north. The organization, working through its district centres in Vavuniya, Mannar and Padaviya, rallied the support of many different donors and dipped in its own resources to provide food and non-food items to the thousands of displaced families now […]