Develop Communities
We need your help to develop communities. Community development expresses values of fairness, equality, accountability, opportunity, choice, participation, mutuality, reciprocity
and continuous learning. Educating, enabling and empowering are at the core of
Community development.
Community development plays a special role in overcoming poverty and disadvantage, knitting society together at the grass roots. It is about influencing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives. Community leaders and volunteers facilitate the participation of people in this process. They enable connections to be made between communities and with the development of wider policies and programs.
Community participation is at the heart of every community development program.
Please contact Break Poverty Cycle with your suggestions on how you can help develop a community in Sri Lanka. Thank you for your support.
Brenda on her visit to the hearing impaired children.
Brenda getting to know the children of Gokeralla, near Kurunegala. She has worked tirelessley to raise funds (approx. £1000.00) to help develop the school and the community. She was planning to return to Kurunegala at the end of 2009. Orphans in the community are in need of your help. Please email for more information.
David Menzies
David Menzies attended the opening ceremony of the buildings he constructed at M/Alapaladeniya Maha Vidyalaya, Morawaka, in June 2009.
Locals helping Brenda master the art of scraping coconuts.
English Teachers in action.
English teachers showing off their acting talents when they performed the English version of a cultural Sri Lankan drama 'Nari Baana'
English Teacher Training 2006
A 10 day residential training was held to provide essential skills needed to teach a foreign language such as English. Twenty teachers participated in the event. If you are a teacher trainer and would like to help please Email us.
The villagers of Weligama
The villagers of Weligama is in need of help to build the community. Tsunami left the village in tatters.
If you can help please Email us
