Sponsors

Plan - Sri Lanka

Plan is one of the world's largest child-centered community development organizations now working in 60 countries. In Sri Lanka, Plan works with children in poor rural communities, to transform their lives, by bringing sustainable development to their communities.

Our Vision is to work for a world in which all children realize their full potential within societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Our Mission is to strive to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives by:

Enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet their basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies;
Building relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and Promoting the rights and interests of the world's children.

Plan's child-centered approach to development means that we consider children as partners in the development process, rather than passive recipients of aid. Giving children an opportunity to access information and to express their views, hopes and aspirations, provides us with a different and valuable perspective of issues that affect children. Listening to their voices, instead of simply assuming we know what's best for them is integral to our work.

Plan has worked in Sri Lanka over the last 25 years, to bring lasting improvements to poor rural communities. We now work with over 24,000 children, their families and communities, in twenty two divisional secretariat areas in eight districts - Hambantota, Moneragala, Kandy, Badulla, Matale, Anuradhapura Kurunegala and Nuwara Eliya.

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Fund for Relief and Development

FRD is an international NGO registered in Sri Lanka with the Ministry of Social Welfare and as a non-profit company with the Register of Companies, promoting sustainable development and communication based programmes.

FRD strives to achieve its mission by:

Supporting the existing communication networks and setting up new ones.
Training in the use of media for development, non-formal and formal educational multimemdia programmes.
Providing consultancy and evaluation services for communication programmes supporting human development.
Disseminating research and other information material via mass media, community media and new technologies.
Implementing projects which focus on uplifting the livelihood of disadvantaged people.

FRD operates in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, India, Bangladesh, East Timor and Kenya.Projects are implemented with financial support from international donor agencies

FRD has a pool of more than 200 senior experts contributing expertise in the fields of media and development, health and mental health, education, social sciences, reconstruction and engineering, development policies and human security.

The programmes are implemented in association with partner organizations with financial support from international donor agencies. Click here for more details.