IAHV supports 2 homes in Sri Lanka for disadvantaged, abandoned or orphaned children.

Wellawaya children's home (South Central), Sri Lanka was founded after the Tsunami by a retired Sri Lankan couple who in 2012 asked Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to take over the home. We also run a girls home in Batticaloa, East coast, Sri Lanka.

The ethos of the homes is to provide a caring, secure, value based home environment for the children to grow up in. The children attend the local schools and are given all the home support needed do well in their education, to prepare for life in the community, and to be strong, and engaged members of the wider community.

They are encouraged to help each other and to participate in the daily domestic jobs around the home, and also to learn useful vocational skills such as computing, and English. They also learn meditation practice, and the benefits of yoga.

Our mission and vision is to expand the homes to be able to provide a secure home for many more children. In time it is hoped to use the land, resources and positioning of the sites and homes so that they are not only self supporting, but also can become centres of excellence and central hubs of community support, and education, health, welfare, self -sufficiency and empowerment to help rebuild the impoverished, largely rural, shattered communities that surround them.

Thank you for your generosity and support!