Weligama Community Welfare Educational Centre

The Weligama Community Welfare Educational Centre, Sri Lanka is entirely funded by IIT which provides the resources needed to sustain the centre and the continued provision of FREE education and meals. The centre assists hundreds of children from the poorest local communities to give them a safe place, daily meals and ensures an essential base for continued learning and development, enabling qualifications and the chance of a prosperous future. Those attending the centre are amongst the very poorest in society, all officially registered on the government’s poverty alleviation scheme, ‘Samurdhi’.

The small village of Weligama was severely impacted by the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004, destroying homes, schools, lives and livelihoods. The Weligama Community Education and Welfare Centre was built to house and educate orphans and those otherwise affected by the disaster and its impact on the community.

Now the centre assists 179 children aged between 2 - 16 years from the poorest local communities to give them a safe place for continued learning and development, enabling qualifications and the chance of a prosperous future with the provisions of education, recreational activities and skills training, all free of charge.