To provide Sri Lankan communities in the Eastern Province- in and around Kantale and Trincomalee area including towns, villages and rural communities- who are living in poverty with all year-round access to basic amenities including food, water and essential items for living with quality of life, and outside of the hunger and poverty cycle.
The Village People equips and empowers communities in poverty to become self-sustaining and independent to enable food security and access to essential items including clothing; mobility equipment and aid; gas and fuel; and tools to enable self-sufficiency in smallholdings for food growth.
*For the purpose of clarification, the UN definition of ‘food security’ is “all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.”
Core Values
Community.
We stand together to provide communities the safe, sufficient and nutritious food to thrive, and the resources to access essential items. We stand in unity for better outcomes for the communities we work with.
Sustainability.
We grow long-term solutions for people to flourish on an individual and community level. We seek to provide aid and assistance which can be long-lasting and self-perpetuating change for the better.
Core Values
Independence.
We activate the potential in individuals, families and communities to live independent lives on their own paths, according to their own ways. We support people to activate and shape their own futures for themselves, their families and their communities.
Kindness.
We operate out of kindness for one another, ourselves and nature. We make decisions which are ethical and with a social consciousness.
The Village People 