Jayawickreme Foundation, Weligama Sri Lanka

The Jayawickreme Foundation was formed in December 2001 strictly as a non political, non religious, non ethnic, non profit making foundation with the aim of assisting and helping the poorest of the poor in Weligama of the Matara district of Sri Lanka.

The Foundation is an approved charity and largely dependent on well-wishers and donors for its finances. The Jayawickreme Foundation based on West Charley Mount Estate, Denipitiya, Weligama, Sri Lanka... More>>


Rural Housing - Armutshauser >>	Seminars for unemployed youth - Seminare fur arbeitslose Jugendliche >>

Education Centres >>	Donations to the elderly >>

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	Children are learning, reading and playing in the Denipitiya Education Centre, which has a library now too. More>>
Kinder lernen, lesen und spielen im Education Centre in Denipitiya, zu dem jetzt auch eine Buecherei gehoert. More>>
	Livelihood projects provide a steady income. The Jayawickreme Foundation assisted more than 600 livelihood projects to start, so that poor, unemployed women and youth could become independent and have a permanent income. More>>
Existenzgruendungsprojekte sorgen fuer ein regelelmaessiges Einkommen. Die Jayawickreme Stiftung hat bisher geholfen, ueber 600 Existenzgruendungsprogramme zu starten, sodass arbeitslose Frauen und Jugendliche selbstaendig werden konnten und ein permanentes Einkommen haben. More>>

In the News...

The Jayawickreme Foundation Day Care Centre for the Old People
Global Action on Aging, March 2007

Jayawickreme Foundation constructs 19 houses in rural Weligama
The Island newspaper, Thursday 31st August, 2006

Forgotten in the post-tsunami aid flood Sunday Times newspaper, March 26, 2006

TSUNAMI IMPACT:
Elderly Sidelined in Recovery Efforts
By Lisa Söderlindh
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20, 2006 (IPS)

Mr. Sirisena, Nilkamal Jayawickreme, Suresh Jayawickreme, Susanne and Sujith Jayawickreme, Mrs. Pushpa, Mrs. Sanduni with Kindergarten children in the Education Centre Denipitiya.

Jayawickreme Foundation
West Charley Mount Estate,
Denipitiya,
Weligama,
Sri Lanka
Phone: 0094 (0)777341148 and 0094 (0)777909955;
Email: info@jayawickreme.org

Susanne Loos-Jayawickreme has been accepted by ECLOF International
Geneva to serve as a representative of the Jayawickreme Foundation on
the Ecumenical Loan Fund Lanka (ECLOF LK) Committee from November 2007.

Susanne Loos-Jayawickreme wurde im November 2007 als Repräsentantin
der Jayawickreme Foundation von ECLOF International Genf in das
Komitee Ecumenical Loan Fund Lanka (ECLOF LK) berufen.

Susanne Loos-Jayawickreme, Vice Chairperson of Jayawickreme Foundation made a presentation at the UN Roundtable on Older Persons in the 2004 Tsunami on February 13-14, 2006 in New York.

Read the full speech on "The Horrible Fate of the Lonely and Forgotten Old People Who Survived Tsunami"

Jayawickreme Foundation, West Charley Mount Estate, Denipitiya, Weligama, Sri Lanka
Phone: 0094 (0)777341148 and 0094 (0)777909955; Email: info@jayawickreme.org

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