Act 4 Sri Lanka

The ACT4SriLanka initiative was launched in July 2022 in the wake of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. We started this initiative in collaboration with the Global ACT Foundation and ACT UK. The objective of the initiative is to serve the needy people in Sri Lanka beyond all man-made barriers, such as race, religion, caste, gender etc., by providing food and medical needs.

Highlights 

• Established 3 community kitchens and served more than twenty thousand freshly cooked nutritious vegan meals within 6 months.
• Launched the project “ACT 4 Vision” and partnered with local hospitals and fully supported cataract surgeries.

Community kitchens

We have established our service hub along with an on-site community kitchen in the underprivileged town of Bandarawela to provide cooked vegan meals to local people who cannot afford even one proper meal a day. Our kitchen operates in a regular manner and serves an average of 1000 meals a week.

In November 2022, our second community kitchen was opened in Puthiya Nagar, near the town of Mankulam in the Mullaitheevu district, a poor village that consists of many widows and disabled people. This kitchen operates 3 days a week and serves an average of 350 meals a week.

In addition, we have opened a third kitchen in the town of Kotagala, a small town in the Nuwara Eliya district. This kitchen serves around 65 underprivileged children with cooked vegan meals every Sunday.

We are in the process of establishing a fourth kitchen in a school in the village of Allaippidy in the Jaffna district with the intention of serving 550 meals every week to school children.  

ACT 4 Vision

We launched the ACT 4 Vision initiative to provide cataract surgeries to underprivileged people on 9th November 2022 with support from the ACT UK team. We are working in partnership with two local hospitals located in the towns of Nawalapitiya and Kilinochchi. We have provided the essential lens and other surgical consumables required for cataract surgeries in these hospitals. Through this initiative, by January 2023, we have given back the beauty of vision to 184 underprivileged people within three months. We are discussing the potential rollout of this program with a third hospital situated in the town of Dikkoya in the Nuwara Eliya district with the intention of expanding our reach to serve the helpless across the country. More surgeries are scheduled in 2023.