- Food Security Program: “Improving Rural Livelihood, Enhancing Food Security, Building Climate Resilience in Sri Lanka” Project funded by Caritas Norway.
Locations: Three districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota
Activities:
- Community mobilization(Selection of vulnerable farmer families)
- Establish home gardens
- Address needs /rights and promoting food security
- Introduce nutritionally balanced diets,
- adaptation to climate change
- Nutrition programs
- Advocacy and Lobbying
- Capacity building of farmers
- Marketing/marketing linkages, promoting livestock
- Establish village level demonstration farms and village knowledge centres
- Empowered Women – Peaceful Communities Through a Family-Centered Approach Project (funded by Misereor – Germany)
Locations: Kaluwella, Deniyaya, Matara
Activities:
- Conduct a baseline survey to identify beneficiaries in 3 villages
- Family based mental health and wellbeing sessions
- Sessions for women trauma and healing
- Awareness on human rights/citizenship
- Workshop for social media
- Formation of women self-help groups
- Training on children on peace building and conflict resolution
- Inter-religious dialogue
- Formation of a DC level Peace Forum
- Empowering Green Gold Harvesters to acquire rightful gains for Plantation Communities(funded by Misereor – Germany)
Locations (Panilkanda (Kolonna DS Division) and Talgaswela)
Activities:
- Form and capacitate Vigilant Groups, Self-help Groups/CBOs, CDF
- Increase household income from home gardening
- Attention on children education and skill training of youth
- Prepare and train communities to face disasters
- Work together with Estate Management and Govt officials to attend to needs of communities
- Improved Households: Fostering secure sustainable livelihoods and nourishing environments for families (OBOS) funded by Caritas South Korea
Locations (Dabarella, Pallemalala in Hambantota District)
Activities:
- Provide basic training on Climate Smart Agricultural Practices
- Facilitate exposure visits to learn climate smart agricultural plots
- Provide basic inputs to motivate (CSAP) adaptation
- Establish climate smart agricultural plots
- Identify MSMEs (Medium Scale Micro Enterprises and support
- Develop Business Plans for MSMEs and support them based on business plans
- Stepping Stones to Safeguarding Sri Lanka’s Natural Environment (SSEP) Project (funded by Misereor – Germany)
Location: Hiniduma area (Thawalama DS Division)
Activities:
- Farmers to adapt to climate smart agricultural practices
- Selected farmers trained on climate smart agricultural practices and water management techniques
- Arrange exposure visit to climate smart agricultural plots
- Establish demonstration climate smart agricultural plots
- Enhance community resilience and economic sustainability through village groups and small enterprises
- Conduct workshops on alternative income generating activities
- Organize community forums and networking events for knowledge exchange
- Establish partnerships with local organizations & stakeholders
- Create online and off line platforms for sharing best practices & success stories
- Advocacy programs to address identified environmental issues
- Celebrate World Environmental Day
- Empowerment of Low-income Catholic Families in the Diocese of Galle (funded by CHARIS, Singapore)
Locations: 17 Parishes in the Diocese of Galle
Activities:
- Enhancement of livelihood facilities
- Enhancement of Education
- Enhancement of Health and Sanitation
- Caritas Sri Lanka-DFCC Bank Scholarship Programme ) funded by DFCC Bank
- 28 poor and vulnerable students have been selected from Parishes/villages
- They are provided with educational facilities to continue their education.