SOS Children’s Villages Sri Lanka (SOSCV SL) has launched a humanitarian assistance program to meet the basic needs of the individual child - food, education, health and protection in the backdrop of the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka.
SOSCV SL works closely with the Divisional Secretariats, in nine districts where the Villages operates, along with the support of NGOs and partner organisations to identify low-income families with children in critical need and offer assistance as required. SOSCV SL has decided to direct all international donations towards the humanitarian assistance program, which will benefit over 10,000 children and 3,000 families across the country.
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| SOS Children’s Villages Sri Lanka Project Director Muralindra Kumar presents dry rations to a member of needy families at the SOS Children’s Village in Nuwara Eliya |
Some of the projects by SOSCV SL are: providing dry ration packs to needy children under the age of five through an initiative by the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians with the support of Feed The Children and the Family Health Bureau; a partnership with Lanka Prison Fellowship enabling SOSCV SL to provide educational items needed for an entire school year for 1500 children of long-term prisoners; distribution of educational kits to 135 children whose parents are kidney patients identified by Samastha Lanka Kidney Patient’s Association; Indira Cancer Trust’s ‘Sponsor A Child’ program was donated 319 educational kits and dry rations to help children continue their education; and a six-month commitment to donate dry rations to Mandula Niwasa, a differently-abled services and support organisation in Padukka.