Where we work

The Foundation of Goodness is committed to working for rural communities in Sri Lanka. The approach to our work is unique in that it provides a holistic response to a community's needs while also recognising that throughout the developing world there are a core of services that are essential in any context.

To this end, the Foundation of Goodness has focussed on developing a rural community development model in Seenigama village, which has already been replicated on a smaller scale in the nearby village of Udumulla.

But the work of the Foundation of Goodness extends beyond the village boundaries to provide a compassionate response to the needs of rural poor communities throughout the country.

Seenigama

Seenigama is on the southern coast and embedded in its history is its survival on the sea and the coral gardens of Sri Lanka. 

The main occupation of the people of this village was to harvest the coral to make chunam for construction. But after the Tsunami this occupation came to a halt as the people realised that it was the coral reef that protected them from disasters like the Tsunami.

Today the main livelihoods in the village are fishing and coir, though many people are branching into non-traditional areas of work in tourism, retail or as newly trained industrial divers through the Seenigama Diving & Training Centre thanks to new skills learnt at the Foundation of Goodness.

Seenigama is 20km north of Galle, the historic colonial town and administrative centre of the Southern province, and  2km north of Hikkaduwa, the thriving tourist resort popular for its coral and beautiful beaches.

The village is home to approximately 350 families and 2000 people, part of a honeycomb of villages that spreads out from the coast along the Galle Road, forming a complex community caught between the traditional .

The main locations for our work in Seenigama are the MCC Centre of Excellence, Aviva Community Centre, Udumulla Village Heartbeat Centre and the Seenigama Sports Academy.

Our work in the Southern Province

The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is administered from Galle and follows the coast line towards Colombo. It is an area of outstanding beauty that specialises in fishing, coconut plantations, cinnamon and rice. Today though the land is scarred with the remains of the Tsunami damage. Foundations mark out, in tidy squares, homes that used to be, here and there a wall remains, a reminder of destructive power of the sea.

The Foundation of Goodness is so grateful to donors from all over the world who have enabled us to help people throughout the southern province, including in Udumulla village where the Village Heartbeat Project has been set up as a model for rural community development.

Our work in Sri Lanka

The Foundation of Goodness recognises that rural communities not affected by the Tsunami are worse off in 2009 than the communities that received so much support in those days of rebuilding. So the Foundation also looks for opportunities to help those others don't or can't reach. For example giving donations of school supplies to pupils in Petulant, Sigiria, Knuckles Range and Colombo, and helping the internally displaced people in the north through donations of essential supplies.