Introduction Focus
On Food Security Focus On Health Security
Focus On Education Security
Focus on Livelihood Security
Emergency Response
Introduction
We believe that a safe household should demonstrate four dimensions of security. These are food and health securities that are basic needs of any person, Livelihood and Knowledge or Education securities that are vital for improving accessibility to basic needs.
Therefore through our mission we intend to address each area with passion and spiritual commitment by first addressing proximate issues pertaining to food and health insecurities in the region and second by addressing intermediate issues that include livelihood and education insecurities which feed into the proximate issues.
Focus On Food Security
Malnutrition among children in Sri Lanka although is low compared to other South Asian country is three times higher when compared with other middle income country around the world. According to the facts and figures nearly one in five children between 3-5 years of age in Sri Lanka are malnourished and are underweight (UNDP,2010).Although the country is on course to achieve its MDG target in this regard by 2015 it is recorded that 37% of the children in the estate sector are underweight with 30% of the children in Nuwara Eliya district are underweight. At the same time malnutrition among women of the estate sectors is observed to be higher compared to other sectors in the country. Malnutrition among women and mothers stands as a major impediment in achieving gender equality across sectors and also as a key source of child malnutrition.
Focus On Health Security
Health is one of the critical issues faced by the estate sector workers in the Nuwara Eliya. Poor accessibility to health services due to harsh road and transportation conditions prevalent in the district people especially children are suffering daily. Even though there are many organizations working closely with the disabled most of them are operational only in the war affected North East whilst there is dire need for attention to be given the disabled in the Estate Sector. Therefore we have embarked on the mission of improving accessibility to basic health facilities required by those who are in need and improving conditions for the disabled in the estate sector of Sri Lanka.
Focus On Education Security
Education is one of the best options that the children of the estate sector could have to break away from the shackles of poverty. However accessibility to good quality education in the estate sector is deemed poor. Similarly direct costs of education impose an additional burden over low income households seen in the estate sector.
Focus On Livelihood Security
One of the main tendencies observed among estate sector workers is that they are provided with limited opportunities for engaging in other forms of livelihoods other than what is given to them within the estates. One of the key reasons indicated for low household incomes in the estate sector and in turn causes poverty, is the inability of those living in the sector to secure outside employment. (CEPA, 2005, World Bank 2007). Those who are able to secure outside employment other than in the estate sector have been able to break away from the shackles of poverty compared to those who could not.
Emergency Response
In addition to our main focus areas we help people in disaster natural peril. Ex: Floods, earthquakes, cyclones and landslides. For those people who need our support on such a situation, we would prepared provide dry foods, food packets, clothes, bed sheets, sanitary items and medical clinics.