• projects in sri lanka

  • internship Sri Lanka

    volunteer projects

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    Kandy, Sri Lanka

    Heart of Buddhism

    Volunteer projects on women's rights and for children and women with disabilities in the former capital of Sri Lanka.

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    North-West Sri Lanka

    Christian region and Golden triangle

    School for children and young people with a disability in Ja Ela and a home for boys with disabilities in Melsiripura.

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    North-Sri Lanka

    Tamil region, ravaged by civil war

    After-school care projects for children with learning disabilities and with traumatic experiences in ex-war and Hindu areas.

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    south-Sri Lanka

    Tea plantations with Indian Tamils

    Project after school care and English lessons. Working in a hospital and elderly home, an organization for ecotourism, and for nature conservation in the region of wildlife parks.

  • Kandy

    what's happening here?

    • women empowerment
    • human rights - women's rights
    • crisis shelter
    • breakfast cafe and shop with women
    • support for children and women with disabilities
    • basic health care for children and women with disabilities

    what could your role be?

    • write projects
    • work in a shelter
    • developing workshops on women's rights
    • develop initiatives for a breakfast café/shop with women's products
    • participate in care for children and women with disabilities
    • teaching children and women with disabilities
    • movement exercises (with profile of physiotherapist)

    where would you live?

    In a host family in a suburb of Kandy.

  • internship in North-west Sri Lanka

    what's happening here?

    • school for boys and girls with a mental disability in the Christian region
    • family replacement home for boys in a difficult educational situation

    what could your role be?

    • teaching children with disabilities
    • organizing sports and cultural activities
    • support teachers
    • movement exercises (with profile of physiotherapist)
    • English lessons and ICT lessons for the boys in House of Light
    • homework support
    • recreational games and sports
    • live between and with the boys

    where would you live?

    In a host family in Ja Ela. In a room on the House of Light project.

  • NOrth-Sri Lanka

    what's happening here?

    • educational hub for children from ex-war zone
    • community development
    • train the trainer program
    • teaching in villages

    what could your role be?

    • teaching English and ICT in hub and villages
    • train teachers
    • organizing recreational and creative activities for children
    • co-organizing nature education children's camps
    • women empowerment
    • working towards community building and economic development

    where would you live?

    In an apartment next to a host family in Mannar.

    In a house in a quiet neighborhood outside Jaffna.

  • projects in south-Sri Lanka

    what's happening here?

    • general hospital and community health centers
    • English lessons and recreation in after-school care
    • support and recreation in an elderly home for women with a mental disability
    • community-based tourism
    • center for conservation and wildlife

    what could your role be?

    • participate in prevention and education programs
    • nursing and care in hospital
    • giving English lessons and homework assistance to children in after-school care
    • caring for women with mental disabilities
    • participate in awareness programs about turtles and wildlife

    where would you live?

    In a host family in Morawakka, Akuressa, Matara or Ahungalle and Wilpattu.

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    the volunteering period of 6 months constitutes your internship as part of the advanced bachelor global citizenship and development