Renaissance Sri Lanka and its partner, Women’s Development Center (WDC) of Badulla, Sri Lanka, are conducting a major project that will empower 50 women directly and 350 women over five years indirectly, in one of Sri Lanka’s poorest districts, Badulla. Women are trained to run cooperative dry food businesses, not only bettering their lives, but…
The current situation According to the World Bank (2022), growth and poverty reduction in Sri Lanka have slowed since 2018. With unmanageable debt and a severe balance of payments crisis, Sri Lanka is in the worst economic crisis ever, with a detrimental effect on growth and poverty. In such a situation, women’s empowerment is crucial…
In the Mannar district, we implement economic, social and environmental projects to address the most pressing issues facing village communities and to prepare them for the challenges of the future. From the ground up, we are collaborating with the village members to establish a governing body and a community fund that are used to finance…
We fund and teach women from vulnerable communities in the Badulla district how to process, dry, and package organic garden produce in a cooperative system, for sale in the local and Sri Lankan markets. A sustainable income becomes possible for these women who will in turn empower more women. This project addresses the food sovereignty…
Sri Lanka is weakened by an agricultural crisis that began decades ago, due to the implementation of an agricultural system that relies heavily on expensive and scarce imported inputs, but also harms the environment and the population.
In 2021, the sinking of the container ship X-Press Pearls off the coast of Sri Lanka hit the islanders hard. Among the first victims were the marine life and the families living from the fishing industry. To help the children of Modara, a region hardly hit by the incident, Renaissance Sri Lanka mobilised its resources…
The plight of many Sri Lankans amid the country’s prolonged economic crisis, the dire effects of COVID-19, and the lockdown have been catastrophic. It has inordinately harmed the community’s most vulnerable section, particularly single-parent households. Many people, especially women, are now unemployed and unable to feed their families owing to a lack of financial assistance.
The burning and sinking of the massive container ship X-Press Pearl in May 2021 resulted in large amounts of toxic nitric acid and non-biodegradable plastic pellets being spilled into the sea, polluting Sri Lanka‘s beautiful coastal waters over a distance of 80 km. Renaissance Sri Lanka had launched a fundraising campaign in June 2021. A…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented consequences all over the world. Sri Lanka as a developing country also experienced an adverse impact with the lockdown situation that has affected each social stratum. The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on Sri Lanka’s economy are already visible. The World Bank predicts Sri Lanka is heading for a…