The Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement (SLSM) organized the 20th Kanchana Abhayapala Annual Human Rights Memorial Lecture to celebrate the United Nations Human Rights Day falling on the 10th December 2011, to commemorate the 22nd death and 50th birth anniversary of Kanchana Abhayapala, who was assassinated on the 28th August 1989. The lecture was held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute ...
At a time when reports of violence against children are often featured by local media, Sarvodaya along with partners UNICEF, Department of Probation and Child Care and others organized a celebration to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children. Recognized worldwide as the ...
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, the founder-president of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement celebrated his 80th birthday on the 05th of November 2011. The main event felicitating Dr. Ariyaratne’s 80th birthday was held in Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo, with the participation of a number of local and international distinguish guests including diplomats of several countries, Heads of International and ...
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratene, the founder president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka, is turning eighty today. Ariyaratne has been called the Gandhi of Sri Lanka and has created one of the worlds preeminent examples of a religious and village-based movement. He has worked tirelessly for the past fifty-three years to build the Sarvodaya Movement based on Gandhian and Buddhist ...
The Buddhist Association of Japan, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, honoured Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, the founder-president of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement by awarding the 45th Annual Cultural Award for the Promotion of Buddhism in the World in a ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan on 12th October 2011. Dr. Ariyaratne was granted this award for his fifty-three years of work to the nation ...
A South Asian regional training of trainers course on the use of the ‘Learning To Live Together’ manual for ethics and peace education will be hosted by the Sarvodaya Movement, at the Vishwanikethan International Peace Centre, Rawatawatte, Moratuwa from the 13th to 18th of August, 2011. Peace educators and activists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ...
A visit from the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, H.E. Ashok K. Kantha, to Sarvodaya’s Headquarters saw the diplomat tour the organizations’ numerous divisions. He visited and spoke with the staff of the ‘5 R’ unit, the Deshodaya (National Reawakening) unit, the Suwasetha preschool, the Masevena (teenage mothers) unit, the Shanti Sena Youth Peace Brigade and the Vishva Niketan ...
On the 14th May, 2011, Sarvodaya’s partnered with the Siseth Foundation to celebrate the 2011 Vesak celebrations. Sarvodaya’s founder, Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne was invited to lead a special meditation program followed by a lecture on universal cooperation. Held at the Noble Mihinthala Ambasthala Dagaba (a Stupa in Mihinthala area of Sri Lanka), the event was held to commemorate the ...
On Friday the 25th March Sarvodaya’s International Division hosted an organized work party made up of around thirty tourists who were visiting Sri Lanka as part of an international boat cruise run by tour operator Crystal Cruises. Their work, which was to spend a day painting at Lenagala Maha Vidyalaya school, took place at Lenagala village, Homagama, located about one ...
The tragic events that stuck Japan on Friday 11th March have caused all those at Sarvodaya to feel a great deal of empathy towards those trying to cope with the disaster and to assist in relief efforts in Japan. Tsunami damage is something everyone in Sri Lanka has experienced and we all know the pain and suffering such a natural ...
The lives of over 1.2 million people in Eastern and North-Central provinces of Sri Lanka have been hard hit by the second round of floods from the 3rd of February 2011 with 1,161 houses fully and 8412 houses partially damaged. The long-term effects on the Sri Lankan economy will be great with over 500 minor tanks and irrigation canals ...
Sarvodaya sends a relief team of professionals to the region hardest-hit by the floods for support, fact-finding and needs assessment. Most urgent needs remain food and shelter. Technical and needs assessments advised. On January 16, as part of its response to the disaster situation, Sarvodaya put together a group of experts to travel to Thoppigala, Batticaloa in the Eastern province. ...
As the rains slow to a drizzle and the floodwaters begin to recede, one million people remain affected by the devastating natural disaster that occurred just six years after the 2004 tsunami. Sarvodaya General Secretary Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne points out that while with 30 deaths the casualties are significantly lower, as a full five percent of the population has been ...
Due to the heavy rainfall that began on Saturday, January 8, 2011, and has continued unabated until today (Tuesday, January 11), more than half the villages in the Batticaloa district have been submerged, with the population forced to seek refuge in schools and temples in the dry areas nearby.
