A Future Without Floods
“This is the first time the floods did not hit us.” Said, Indika Lal, a resident of Nawagattegama a village that suffers from floods and droughts...
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The Power of a Single Step
The Grace Project in Sri Lanka, funded by the EU, teaches empathy to community members, benefiting over 130,000 people vulnerable to conflicts.
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Social Cohesion
Zainab’s Journey of Faith
Zainab, a preschool teacher in Pudukkudirppu, facilitates dialogue in the EU-funded GRACE project, promoting social cohesion in Sri Lanka's North-Western...
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No Food, No Preschool
RISE Lanka Economic Crisis Activation supported by the Australian government through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership. Under the RISE Lanka...
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A strength for health workers
“Like how the word Tsunami was totally new to us in 2004, so did the word Covid-19 for us in 2020” says Dr Gunasingham Sukunan, Regional Director of Health...
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A lab that brought change
"In 2020, people here in Nuwara Eliya stand in queue for hours to get their samples collected to be tested against Covid-19. Our hospital staff had to...
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Taking health home
Although Suganthini was worried about carrying infection to her family; she has a younger son at home and elderly parents, she committed herself to attend...
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No one left behind
“We could not afford to take them in a private vehicle to the vaccination centre and we didn’t feel safer about taking them in a public vehicle that boards...
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A day in the life of a health worker
A day in the life of a health worker
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World Vision calls for justice for student in Weeraketiya School
World Vision is shocked and saddened to learn about the humiliation and the injustice faced by a Grade 11 student of a school in Weeraketiya (South Sri...
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Australian High Commissioner meets mushroom producers in East Sri Lanka
David Holly, High Commissioners of Australia to Sri Lanka and Erika Seymor, First Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and...
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The one-walled house
She knocked on the neighbour’s door. There was no other option. The rain was becoming heavier and she knew their little house wouldn’t keep them from death...
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How growing mushrooms change the life of Kaushala
Kaushala was nervous about growing mushroom at first. To top it all, she had never engaged in any livelihood or business before. She had less interaction...
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This is my race...
Running is her life. That’s one thing that makes her smile from one ear to the other. Puwanalojini (39) doesn’t have a coach. She practices on her own...
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Remember. Rebuild. Restore.
40 days since the flood waters receded in the North, families in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu are still struggling to rebuild their lives and return to...
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The Bicycle Shop
Some parents stay up a whole night to assemble a bicycle to surprise their child. For Rajeshwari (38), surprise or no surprise, it only takes a few hours...
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Ford-World Vision on yet another water partnership
Ford Motors of Softlogic Group, pledged their support recently as the principal sponsor to provide clean water to yet another vulnerable community in one...
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Literacy for every child
Exciba, 13, didn’t know she could do well in studies. Neither did she know she would be smart enough do ever attend a ‘good’ school. But here she was...
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From chemicals to compost
Story by Vinusha Paulraj Thasleema Beham has chosen a red shawl for the day. Giving it a quick tug around her head, she welcomes us into her garden. “Come...
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A Reading Buddy
Prarthana (13) is a reading buddy to ten children with ages ranging from 6 to 12 in her neighbourhood. Twice a week, children gather in one home to improve...
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Here a moo there a moo
Nitharshan was 6 and knew exactly what he wanted to become when he grew up. He wanted to own a big cattle herd and he wanted to champion in Bullock-cart...
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World Vision, USAID WASH partnership
World Vision Lanka and USAID recently signed an agreement to provide Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) assistance to families affected by the adverse...
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It takes a nation to end violence against children
World Vision Lanka recently joined with the government and non-government stakeholders in the National Partnership to End Violence Against Children (NPEVAC...
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Out of the mud…
Saumya and her mother, Thanuja holding pictures of the loved ones. Saumya holds a photo of her father taken on his wedding day and Thanuja is holding a...
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