Restoring the Pearl of the Orient

Sri Lanka was once called the Pearl of the Orient. Our objective at SHORE is to help this beautiful island recover from the disastrous effects of the Tsunami so that it can once again carry that description with pride and joy.

Health

Counselling and Medical Centre

This is to create a halfway house situated in Thirukkovil.
A trust in Colombo has offered to pay for a 2 storey building that will comprise 2 separate halves, used as a dual-purpose building, to accommodate two separate needs: Counselling and Medical.

Part of the ground floor will consist of rooms for waiting, consulting, treatment, medical and storage needs as well as toilets and a large, divided Seminar/activity/lecture room for counselling. There will be 2 flats above, each with a living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and toilet, one to accommodate medical staff who travel from afar and need to stay overnight, and the other offering privacy for severely traumatised people who need to stay while being counselled for a period of time.

This will be a central base to serve the people of two large Districts on the east coast, Ampara and Batticaloa. It will serve the whole community to facilitate the delivery of the mobile service that currently exists and make it easier to treat people in a drop-in centre as well as the travelling clinic and provide a better service all round.

Requirements

To equip and furnish the centre.
Operating costs and 10 counsellor’s salaries, expenses for at least the first 5 years.
To maintain the mobile service as a health awareness service.
On-going training

Total cost £68,921.88

Return to the
Shore Foundation

Jepamani, a counsellor, identified this girl as someone needing counselling. The Methodist church has provided a wheelchair to enable her to get around as she is paralysed from the waist down. Prior to this her family had to lift and carry her everywhere. As her confidence grows we hope to enable her to attend vocational training and start to build a life for herself.

Jepamani and her colleague are at present undergoing further training in counselling skills and we hope when this is completed that they will be able to assume greater responsibilities in the new counselling centre once built and established.