Village Heartbeat Centre
The Village Heartbeat Centre opened in August 2007 in Udumulla, near Hikkaduwa, Southwest Sri Lanka.
The project is a rural community development model that can be replicated throughout the rural third-world. It is designed to empower local people through the provision of services vital to the community in one location at the heart of the village.
The Village Heartbeat Centre provides high quality facilities rarely available in rural villages including:
- Computer training centre (equipped with ten computers)
- Community centre
- Library
- English classes
- Women’s Enterprise courses
- Youth & women’s empowerment programmes,
- Children’s Goodness Club,
- Village/environment improvement plans,
- Spiritual training to improve the quality of life,
- Volunteer expertise oriented programmes.
All programmes are free of charge and are taught by qualified teachers. Overseas volunteers work with them to develop new classes and skills and these are open to all who wish to attend from the village and surrounding areas. As well as scheduled classes, the centre is also used as a venue for village clubs and public meetings.
 Children receive certificates after graduating from a 3month Introduction to IT class at the Village Heartbeat Project
THE VILLAGE HEARTBEAT
Heart of a village gets a kick start with new community activity centre
Towards a Rural Community Model
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