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Our Story
Our foundation was established in February 2018 to help improve the quality of lives of disadvantaged families in northern Sri Lanka, which was affected by three decades of war against terrorists.
There are about 27 war-affected and resettled villages (9000 families), especially in the economically disadvantaged districts of Mullativu and Vavuniya of the Northern Province. There are 6000 families (2000 school children) within 21 villages of Welioya, Mullativu Districts. These families suffer through extreme poverty resulted from a lack of stable means of living. Their income is predominantly based on farming and hard labour. The war which spanned for 3 decades massively impacted these remote northern villagers, crippling their mental and physical health. As a result, their attitude towards quality of life has shifted to something quite different from what the majority of Sri Lankans experience.
What We Do
01.
— Education
Enabling children to continue with their education by helping children and families with providing school equipment, food and financial support, ongoing scholarships and via CYGNUS Learning Centre teaching core curriculum with the support from skilled teachers across the world.
02.
— Spiritual Development
Offering meditation to develop mindfulness and spiritual teaching sessions for those who like to explore the spiritual side.
03.
— Social & Economic Growth
Helping families and individuals by offering them with training for self employment, setting up businesses, finding suitable jobs and offering personality development and psychology workshops, etc.
04.
— Computer Skills
By establishing a IT laboratory and ongoing training courses we are
continuing to teach basic computer skills to both children and adults
alike including government officers and teachers.
05.
— Save the Nature
With a variety of initiatives, we aim to reduce waste, grow trees and reduce plastic usage.
06.
— Buddhist Heritage
Building hermitages and other buildings for monks who follow the noble path of Supreme Buddha, supporting education of novice monks and dhamma schools, supporting reconstruction of Buddhist archaeological ruins which enables protection of Buddhist heritage.
Sponsorship Levels
As sponsor you will have the opportunity to sponsor one or more children on their education who are attending school or university. Sponsor applications will be evaluated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Matches will be made based on the best fit for both Sponsor and Scholar. An individual or company/organisation may decide to provide multiple scholarships. We have categorised scholarships into a few main levels.
Impact Stories
Pushpalatha was a manual labourer since she was was 18
She had multiple failed relationships and had abusive partners and the current partner is now in jail serving time for 5 years. She has 3 children. She lives with her elderly mother and her son; struggling to support her family she approached us for support.
In March/April 2020, we launched a vocational training program to empower women like Pushpalatha to train for sewing skills enabling her to be self-employed. She now sells clothes, purses, bags, and rugs to the local market. We work with women like Pushpalatha to encourage them to be confident self-empowered women.
A Brighter Future — For Welioya Children
As we saw a massive gap of IT facilities and lack of skilled teachers (or no teachers) to teach core curriculum subjects we launched our “CYGNUS Learning Centre” with the aim to enable wider Welioya community learn computer skills as most of them who has not touched a computer. Moreover, with the generous support from skilled teachers from across the world (financial contributors like you) we were able to provide children a great opportunity to expand their horizon. Now they will have the chance to learn the core curriculum from highly trained and skilled teachers like children from the core cities like Colombo/Kandy.