All our work has to be done in the environment in which we live: the plantations/ Villages which have the problems of low wages, poor housing, limited educational opportunities, limited access to health care and - most important - social isolation in the country.

There are also more that 20,000 villages, the historical backbone of the country, yet now relegated to second place - if they have any real place at all - in the framework of the dominant model of development, promoted all over the Third World by the World Bank, and meekly accepted by the leaders of our countries.

There is also the problem of the shanty districts in our towns. From them come the lumpen proletariat who can easily be enlisted by unscrupulous persons for nefarious purposes.

We have not only to accept the environment. Satyodaya should do all it can to change it - not an easy task and not one which can be achieved without the support of like-minded organizations and individuals.

We shall have to face three main problems in our work:

• The inter-ethnic, which grows more and more intractable with each passing day.
• Poverty, which is the lot of the majority and is aggravated by the continually rising cost of living; a small class of the rich has however never had it so good as now, so that the problem of the poor cannot be solved in isolation from the problem of the rich;
• Social disintegration - of values, family life, of ordinary social intercourse.

The Three Main Targets of Satyodaya Field Work Today

• Strengthening Civil Society through the Empowerment of the Powerless
• Protecting and Promoting the Environment
• Enabling Women to take their long-delayed place in Society.

The Twelve Main Supportive Programmes of Satyodaya Today

• Audio Visuals - their production and use Economic Activities through the amalgamation of two previously separate programme: supplementary income generation programme (IGP) and the self-employment programme (SEP)
• Educational and Awareness Programmes
  Emergency Assistance, Relief & Reconstruction, as and when necessary
• Food for Work Programme
• Health and Nutrition
• Home Gardens
• People's Forums
• Pre-school as a base from which local communities may work
• The Sarasavigama Farm and Training Centre, Called Satyodaya Jana Seva (SJS)
• Vocational Training
• Water and Sanitation
• Housing Schemes
  

Field Activites

Technical Training

Community centre at Galaha

Pre-school in Galaha

Field visit

Childrens programme in Kandy Area