Distributions

Humeira (on left), a full-time worker of Sarvodaya, presents a set of kitchen utensils and cleaning materials to a woman at a Sarvodaya camp in Belliwate. The family pack contains pots, pans, plates, cups, utensils, brooms and rakes, etc. View Full Photo Gallery (65 Pictures)

Mount Carmel Church, Gampaha Sarvodaya uses long-standing local contacts to provide relevant relief. Recently we received a letter from the Parish Priest at Mount Carmel Church in Gampaha. Sarvodaya had previously provided them with dry rations for distribution. They then sent an additional letter which read as follows: There are so many families affected by […]

Awakening By Marianne Larned A. T. Ariyaratne stood before a group of villagers in Sri Lanka. They were in despair: their irrigation system was in shambles and the government had ignored their pleas for help. For years, they had gone without enough water for their animals, their crops and their children. Now they could wait […]

In many areas wells and drinking water were flooded with debris and sea water. Sarvodaya has been actively pumping these wells to return them to use. District Working Area Wells Cleaned Galle Hikkaduwa Ambalangoda Balapitiya 214 Kalutara Kalutara Beruwala Panadura 102 Ampara Kalmunai 110 Trincomalee Town Area 75 Total: 501 wells cleaned

Sarvodaya team headed by Dr. A T Ariyaratne visited tsunami struck Trincomalee with a disaster management specialist from Bangladesh Mr. Abdul Matin. He met with those affected at several camps in Trinco. We distributed family packs containing dry rations, cooking equipment and other household requirements to 400 families in the village of Gopalapuram (Tamil). Dr. […]

by Jeevan Ariyaratne It was nothing but destruction whereever you looked. I did not have any other option than to drive to Beruwala and look for my brother-in-law and his friends who were holidaying at a beach bungalow. Last communication with him was around 2 in the afternoon. They were still on a roof top […]

“My name is Anita Kumudini Roellin. I was born in Panadura – south of Sri Lanka. When I was two months old my mother had given me for adoption to Sarvodaya Suwasetha. I was fortunate to find loving and caring foster parents from Switzerland few months after. I grew up in the DavosGR Mountains with […]

Child’s Picture The Sarvodaya Camp at Hambantota has volunteer teachers providing classes for the students. The teacher asked the children to draw pictures and they all drew the same thing – the tsumami that swept through their villages and homes.

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 […]

Thanks to the rapid responses of you, the readers of this blog, our web team and other Sarvodaya offices are currently inundated with offers of volunteer help. We have long lists of such offers from the people who answer the phones here as well. For that reason, we have set up an online Volunteer Forum […]