It was estimated that immediately after the Tsunami, as many as one thousand female craft workers in Sri Lanka lost their livelihoods.  All of them could benefit from the assistance that Power of Hands Foundation is currently providing to less than 100. This is why we are desperately in need of funds to:

• Create a small core team in both the UK and Sri Lanka to manage and implement developments in the work of Power of Hands Foundation
• Provide further training for the women at the existing Galle Fort centre
• Set up three new craft workshops and training centres, together with a co-operative of at least 100 women for each, in different locations throughout southern Sri Lanka
• Provide financial and operational support for these centres and their co-operatives until they become self-sufficient
• Bring other craft workers, such a embroiderers, dyers, weavers and printmakers into the project to assist in more areas and create a wider range of products that can be preserved, developed and sold
• Provide home improvements to enable  the craft workers to work at home
• Provide the necessary personal equipment such as spectacles and craft materials such as pillows, bobbins, pins and thread.

We are of course able to provide detailed breakdown of costs relating to each of these needs and would welcome the opportunity to discuss specific areas of interest with corporate funders in more detail.