The Mission....

            The Sinhala Community Development Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization formed to provide humanitarian assistance and promote the advancement of the Sinhala Community worldwide. The Foundation is funded primarily by charitable donations, and is staffed by unpaid volunteers. The Foundation is developing programs to provide humanitarian, educational, health, career development, and poverty alleviation assistance to members of the Sinhala Community in the United States, in Sri Lanka, and in other countries of the world.

            We believe that self-help and self-reliance are the answers to many problems that confront our community. We maintain that the members of the Sinhala Community can overcome these difficulties by joining together to extend a helping hand to each other without subjecting any single benefactor to significant hardship. Because the growth of an expatriate Sinhala Community is a very recent phenomenon, Sinhala people in the United States and in other parts of the world do not have an established support base for coping with emergencies and other difficulties they encounter in foreign lands. They have no mentors, no guidance, no resources. Furthermore, given the ongoing terrorism and violent conflict in Sri Lanka, many segments of Sinhala people in Sri Lanka need more assistance than either they themselves, or the Government of Sri Lanka, can provide.

           Leveraging the initial educational and other advantages they enjoyed in Sri Lanka, through hard work and exercising their native talents, many Sinhala expatriates have achieved great success in professional and business fields throughout the world.  These individuals represent a significant untapped resource that can be harnessed to benefit the Community. It is incumbent upon them, to extend a helping hand now not only to alleviate hardship and poverty in Sri Lanka, but also to help young and struggling members of our Community abroad to overcome their difficulties and to achieve their full potential. The generosity of one's own community, effectively organized and continuously maintained, will induce and grow a community spirit, that will help sustain a tradition of community service within future generations. The result will be an undying flow of love for our community that will cascade through successive generations of young people - an affection that would otherwise gradually dissipate and vanish in foreign lands, in the absence of any benefits to be derived from belonging to one's own community.

          In this way, we propose to help build a united Sinhala Community with a tradition of community service that can be sustained through generations to come; a tradition that would serve not only the expatriate community but also the community in Sri Lanka, our native land. As the events of the last two decades make crystal clear, little Sri Lanka cannot survive in isolation, and will need the assistance of all of  its expatriate sons and daughters to strongly anchor and protect it against the stormy seas of this dangerous new world.

         We, therefore, invite all members of the Sinhala Community to participate in  the  activities of the Sinhala Community Development Foundation not only to help those in need but also to provide deserving members of our Community the tools-to-succeed.