The
Epiphany Trust has been working in Sri Lanka since 1998 when
we started funding a school for disadvantged children in the
town of Welimada, in the heart of the Sri Lankan tea-growing
country. When the tsunami of 27th December 2004 struck the coast
of Sri Lanka it was through our partners at this school that
we were first able to to send humanitarian aid to the coast,
providing essential supplies of food, water, clothing and shelter
to families who had lost everything to the ferocious wave.
Made possible by the overwhelming response to our Tsunami Appeal,
Epiphany established Child Action International Sri Lanka,
which has overseen the growth of a host of new projects. These
include:
Epiphany has now sent two 40ft containers from the
UK across to Sri Lanka. Aid and medical supplies, school
and sporting equipment, a refurbished dental surgery,
even two Green Goddess Fire Engines have been transported
in the past two years.
Believed by many to be the defining success of new
charitable initiatives over the past decade, Epiphany
has set up its own Micro Credit scheme in Galle to allow
small businesses to be established through a preferential
loan system.
Epiphany has been instrumental in setting up the link
between the two great port cities of Liverpool and Galle.
Give As You Earn schemes adopted by many people
across Merseyside have played a considerable role in rebuilding
much of Galle's infractructure over the past couple of
years.
In conjunction with the charity "Jigsaw 4 U",
we have been able to run courses for both children and
adults who are suffering bereavement from the tsunami.
Based in Sri Lanka's 3rd most populous city of Kandy,
Debbie Edirisinghe has been employed by the Trust to run
a centre providing care, counselling and a social network
for street children.
Our longest running project in Sri Lanka; Epiphany
has been funding a school in Wellimada, co-ordinated by
baptist minister Sylvester Joseph, which provides schooling
for children who would otherwise not have the opportunity
of education.
The
Epiphany Trust has been working in Sri Lanka since 1998 when
we started funding a school for disadvantged children in the
town of Welimada, in the heart of the Sri Lankan tea-growing
country. When the tsunami of 27th December 2004 struck the coast
of Sri Lanka it was through our partners at this school that
we were first able to to send humanitarian aid to the coast,
providing essential supplies of food, water, clothing and shelter
to families who had lost everything to the ferocious wave. 
