Sharing old memories

Sharing old memories 

 

This is just to share my old memories while I was working with the Swiss funded Rural Health Development Project back in 1995 to 2005. I had led a team of project staff for a study tour to observe Sarvodaya Movement program in Sri Lanka. 

Visited a school run by Sarvodya Shramadana Movement 

With Dr. A.T Aryaratne
Founder of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement 

Attending briefing session about the Sarvodaya Sgramadana Movement  with the project team

 Enjoying sea beach morning walk in Colombo

Handing over a souvenir to Movement Coordinator

About Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne founded Sarvodaya in 1958, when he established the concept of Shramadana (“Sharing of one’s Time, Thoughts, Labor and Energy”); gathering volunteers to come together and build a road in an impoverished rural village of Sri Lanka. Today, the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (officially known as “Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya”) is Sri Lanka’s most broadly embedded community-based development organization network.  Sarvodaya works with 26 district centres, 325 divisional centres and over 3,000 legally independent village societies in districts across the country, including war-torn northern and eastern provinces. 

The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement seeks a no-poverty, no-affluence society in Sri Lanka through community based efforts and volunteerism. One can travel for days to the most remote mountain settlements and still find signs of Sarvodaya: a seamstress who got her start from a loan through her village bank; a healthy child who benefits from home visits by a young mother trained by Sarvodaya in early childhood development; a well tapped with a hand pump made through Sarvodaya efforts. Or perhaps a hand-hewn road that brings poor villages into physical and psychological touch with the outside world. It is in the building of such roads that the movement actualizes its most moving testimony of greatness. In village after village where hopelessness and poverty ruled, Sarvodaya has engaged people to live by the motto: “We build the road and the road builds us.”

 https://www.sarvodaya.org

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