Rainbow Centre Sri Lanka

The Rainbow Centre Sri Lanka is a UK-registered charity, run by a small team of unpaid trustees and volunteers who are dedicated to ensuring that administration costs in the UK are minimised and that all donations benefit the Rainbow Centre children and their families in Sri Lanka to the maximum extent possible. The Centre’s day-to-day operations are managed by its local employees which include: its CEO, Shevi Balasuria; a head teacher; a welfare manager; day carers for babies and infants; a team of full-time and part-time teachers covering a full range of subjects for all ages; an accountant; an administrator who also acts as a welfare and educational assistant; two cooks who cater for 240 people a day; cleaners, including a small team of mothers in crisis; two drivers, who meet all the many bus and tuk-tuk transportation needs; a maintenance worker; and, a purchasing supervisor to ensure the safe delivery and storage of supplies. The Rainbow Centre and its children are protected by 24-hour professional security staff. All of the Centre’s work is made possible by the generosity of its donors who enable this life changing work to continue and grow. The gratitude of everyone involved with the work of the Rainbow Centre is infinite. Education The belief that poor outcomes are inevitable for children who come from generations of illiterate, destitute families and that the discrimination that these children experience on the basis of poverty are accepted as the norm. The result has typically been that each new generation believes that they are destined to follow in the steps of their parents and endure teenage pregnancy, the insecurity and hardship of work as, for example, day labourers, rubbish collectors, toilet cleaners and exploited sex workers. The Rainbow Centre has already demonstrated that neither societal belief has any validity.