Sewalanka, a registered non-profit, works with two "daughter organizations" to provide an integrated and complementary package of services. Sewa Finance is a registered microfinance institution that provides financial services to community organizations and rural entrepreneurs. Sewa Economic Development Company (SEDCO) is a social enterprise that focuses on fair trade, value chain investments and enterprise development services.
Who We Are
"If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day. If you teach me to fish, you have fed me until the water is polluted and the beach is taken for hotel development.
But if you teach me to organize, then whatever the challenge, I can join together with my community and we will develop our own solution."
Sewalanka Foundation is a Sri Lankan development organization that enhances the capacity of disadvantaged
rural communities to identify and address their own development needs. Through our own professionals and
our links with other service providers, we coordinate training and support services that contribute to the
economically viable, socially just and ecologically sustainable development of Sri Lanka.
News
Regaining food security through community gardens gives taste of home to resettled communities
When the conflict ended in 2009 Sewalanka Foundation were heavily involved in repatriating returning IDPs, providing support to enable those that were once living and working in thriving communities back to a place they once knew as home. Mullaittivu was one of the worst conflict affected districts in the country and Sewalanka are now working with over 2,000 families to rebuild their livelihoods and increase their food security. Read more..
Across the country this month a series of events, workshops and programmes were organised by Sewalanka Foundation in aid of World Environment Day 2011.
The celebrations saw participation from, students, community members, community based organisations, teachers, government officials and representatives from non-governmental organisations. Read more..
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migrant workers looking forward with hopeMs. Shashila Priyadarshani returned home as she was not paid for months and was not given enough to eat. Sewalanka’s psychosocial support team helps many returnee migrants like Shashila to overcome past trauma, uplift their mental well being and live a better life. Now, Shashila earns Rs. 15,000 a month with the sewing machine she was provided with by the project. “At last I can look forward with hope,” says Shashila.
Read how Sewalanka helped make it possible.
