Three purposes, one island
The constitution fixes what the fund exists to do, and it cannot be redirected to a purpose that is not charitable.
Our charitable purposes
Every distribution must further one of the three purposes below, all of them directed at Sri Lanka.
Providing goods and practical support to individuals, families and communities in need in Sri Lanka. In practice this has meant shoes and wet weather gear for children, dry rations for families in hardship, and basic household goods where they were needed most.
Providing scholarships, grants, financial support, educational materials and goods to individuals in Sri Lanka who lack access to educational opportunity. Books, school bags, activity materials and equipment for small village schools, aimed at the point where a modest amount of money changes whether a child can attend at all.
Providing grants, financial support, goods and essential services to individuals and communities affected by natural disaster or other emergency. Sri Lanka is exposed to cyclones, flooding and landslides, and the window in which help matters most is short.
All three purposes are pursued by operating a charitable endowment fund: investing the corpus permanently and applying the returns to the purposes above, as goods bought and delivered directly. How the fund works.
How support is given
As goods, not cash. We do not hand money to individuals or families. The distribution is spent on specific items, bought in Sri Lanka and delivered directly. What those items are depends entirely on what a community needs at the time: school books and bags, shoes and wet weather gear, dry rations, medicine and equipment for village schools are examples of what has been given, not a list of what we will give.
Buying locally costs less than shipping, arrives faster, keeps the money in the local economy, and means what arrives is what people actually use.
What the constitution allows, and what we do
Clause 7 permits grants, financial support, goods and services. That breadth is deliberate, so the fund is not boxed in decades from now.
In practice, everything given so far has been goods. If that ever changes, it will be recorded in our work and announced on the updates page.
A track record of direct giving
This fund formalises something that has been happening quietly for years. For more than a decade we have been travelling to Sri Lanka, identifying communities that need basic support, and giving directly through trusted relationships on the ground.
Shoes and wet weather gear for children in the highlands. Dry rations, books and medicine for five hundred people displaced by Cyclone Ditwah. A computer lab at a village school that is still in use.
Every distribution, on the record
Each one is listed with a date, a place, what was given and to how many. Nothing is estimated and nothing is counted twice.
Fund this work permanently
A contribution to the corpus funds all three purposes, every year, indefinitely.
Ways to give