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World Health Day 2020

People’s health is vital for the growth of a nation. It makes an important contribution to the economic progress and the productivity of people. To make the nation’s population healthy, the contribution of Health officials is of utmost importance. Even during this COVID-19 pandemic, they are the frontliners risking their lives daily to protect others. This World Health Day, people in Sri Lanka come together to salute all those who are serving in the health sector – from doctors to nurses to the cleaning staff in health facilities for their unwavering service.

World Health Day 2020

World Vision Lanka receives Compliance Award for Annual Report

World Vision Lanka recently received a Compliance Award at the Annual Report Awards under the Not-For-Profit Organisations category. This award is the third consecutive year in which World Vision participated and received this award.

A bucket of water

Most Villagers from Mahewal, Rideegama have been drawing water from their neighbors well or small stream that were drying up due to climate change.

Here a moo there a moo

Nitharshan’s dream was to own a herd of cattle and to win the Bullock Cart race in his village.

Since 1977, World Vision Sri Lanka has been serving the people of Sri Lanka, in development and relief programmes. The Area Development Programme (ADP) are a long term programme spanning from 12-15 years that primarily focuses on children and their communities.

Area Rehabilitation Programme (ARP) is an initiative that World Vision Sri Lanka initiated to work with the returned communities to help rebuild their lives and livelihood.

The Street Children Programme cares for the street children in the target areas of the country.

In 2017 World Vision was working with 2000 communities in more than 600 small administrative Divisions located 20 Districts, impacting the lives of over 250,000 children and their families.