SREDEWO

is an educational, development and welfare foundation with the following goals:

1.To promote the socially, educationally and morally handicapped people who live in Sri Lanka.

2.To award scolarships.

3.To establish and run children homes.

4.To establish and run old folk homes.

5.To run educational institutes and various educational programmes.

6.To recognize those who are economically poor and carry out projects to improve their economic standards.

SREDEWO is active on Sri Lanka but has contacts also in Sweden

On-going activities

Pre-schools

Organised pre-school service is merely a dream for a rural village like Maratugod. Several kindergartens are sheltered at present.

Scholarships

SREDEWO has provided scholarships for skilful and intelligent but economically weak students.

Help for aged

Under this project SREDEWO provide help for the helpless, poor and aged.

Training

SREDEWO has arranged different training programmes for the community leaders in rural areas who are engaged in rural development.

Women programe

Many activities have been performed that are directed towards women in the area. SREDEWO provides classes and seminars in order to educate women on how to deal with family problems and child care efficiently. At present, some of the members are taking up self-employment in their own residence like tailoring and dress making, with the help of the employment training programme from the centre.

Youth project

SREDEWO has different arrangements for the young generation in order to promote them, motivate them and build up their lives as good citizens.

Environment

To overcome environment problems SREDEWO arranges different activities such as:

  • Keeping nursery and the free distribution of plants
  • Reforestation programme
  • Tree planning at home gardens, road sides and other public spaces

Hospital services

With the donations of the well wishers, SREDEWO has arranged hospital services such as:

  • Cleaning and painting wards
  • Help to poor patients with medicine, clothes, foods, etc

Counselling

Socio-economic problems leading to frustration among the youth is increasing in the country. In order to reduce these problems, SREDEWO has launched a counseling service with the kind help of trained volunteers.

Tsunami project (2005)

SREDEWO's newly started project is the Tsunami project. Its main purpose is to support parentless children.

 

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