For the past 44 years, we’ve been partnering with governments, corporates, donors, sponsors and individuals like you, to improve the wellbeing of the most vulnerable children in Sri Lanka.
This Christmas, WVL aimsto spread laughter, peace and joy among 125 childrenby equipping them with the necessary school supplies for the new school year and ensuring no child gets left behind from access to education.
There are over 450 preschoolers in Kandavalai (North Sri Lanka) but not all of them have enough food to eat these days. We want to make sure all of them gets a meal every day at their preschool. You too can join and gift a meal.
Menstrual health management is heavily undermined by the lack of knowledge and by social norms that promote stigma and discrimination towards women and girls.Itis vital to educate girls and women, and to empower them to break the biases towards menstruation and break the cycle of period poverty.
Children and families in Neluwa have to travel over 50km to meet an optometrist. We areraising funds for an eyeclinic for 200 children as a start.Let's help every child see better, read better and study better.
Here are six single mothers who are strong enough to not give up, brave enough to dream bigger for their children and stubborn enough to break through walls that limit them. Your support can do wonders for them.
Mary-Rani moved into her land that held the foundation of her, once dream house. Her son was few months old. She put up a small shack with thatched leaves she could find and decided to start life again. She goes begging to support her son but what she gets is not enough to build a house.
Toilet is an essential place in every house, yet there are families living without one. We are raising funds to build toilets for 269 such families living in the tea estates in Central Sri Lanka. When you gift a toilet, you give them more than health. You restore their dignity.
There is one thing a mother who has no electricity in her house but has children in the age of pulling, reaching and experimenting, fears when the sun sets. ‘Will my child topple the kerosene lamp and set fire to everything?’ Here’s the story of a project that gave them lamps that can be toppled, hugged even bitten.
The wind blew their house flat. Now they sleep in the neighbour’s kitchen. It is still a good enough place for Jalima and her two girls. Plucking tea for a living she barely can meet the basic needs of her children. But she makes sure they don’t stop schooling. But her little daughter Preethika dreams of a house. One like what others have.