Children Belong in Loving Families,
Not Orphanages
Our holistic approach works from the grassroots up
to promote family care in Sri Lanka and improve the lives of orphaned and abandoned children.
From birth to adulthood we reunite, educate, support and strengthen disadvantaged and forgotten children and families of all faiths.
TFT helps them succeed to escape the cycle of poverty, and makes their lives better, forever.
DID YOU KNOW?
21,000
OVER
CHILDREN ARE ESTIMATED TO LIVE IN ORPHANAGES IN SRI LANKA, WITHOUT HOPE OF A FAMILY, AN EDUCATION - OR A FUTURE.
POVERTY, DISCRIMINATION, DISABILITY, WAR AND NATURAL DISASTER ARE ALL FACTORS
THAT CAUSE CHILDREN TO BECOME SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES
WE WORK TIRELESSLY TO
GIVE EVERY FORGOTTEN CHILD
THEIR FUTURE TODAY
80%
OF CHILDREN IN ORPHANAGES
HAVE AT LEAST ONE LIVING PARENT BUT ARE GIVEN UP BY LOVING FAMILIES, IN CRISIS, IN THE HOPE OF A BETTER LIFE,
NOT UNDERSTANDING THE LONG TERM DAMAGE CAUSED.
No child should live in poverty
No child should be alone
Our footprint is small but our impact is big and our voice is being heard at the highest levels to make every child count.
We are working towards social change and collaborating with global specialist partners to advocate and raise awareness of the harm caused to children in orphanages and share
Alternative Family and Foster Care knowledge
by providing training at the highest level to
National Childcare Services, the Judiciary, law students, political leaders, civil society organizations, faith groups, universities, local NGO's and communities to keep families together where it is safe and possible.
This emergence of knowledge has created a new and TransFormaTional understanding
Children Belong in Loving Families,
Not Orphanages
OUR ANNUAL IMPACT
Over 2,500
Children in poor families receive for school books for an entire year
7
Women and girls escaping abuse are given a second chance at our Heartbeat Centre home where they learn life skills, financial management and English
132
Orphaned young people received vocational training in IT, sewing and baking
85
Preschool children receive affordable early learning and English lessons in a poor rural area
26,180
Nutricious school meals are made for two schools in a poor tea plantation area
Over 3,000
Women and girls are given advice, legal aid and comfort from our helpline
6
Families are directly prevented from abandoning their children in orphanages
Over 600
Judges, social workers, police, and law students are given seminars on Alternative Family and Foster Care
OUR SUCCESS STORIES
There are no words to describe the emotion felt when 106 children aged 6 - 17 years sat down in the one main hall for the first time in three years, to eat a hot nutritious meal together, knowing this will directly help to keep these children safe in their families where they belong. Not a single morsel was left, and smiles of pure happiness lit up every corner of the room. In just a few days the impact was clear. Six more children enrolled, no fainting, no drop outs and 100% attendance.
With the support of our Their Future Today's probono lawyer Marini de Livera, we reunited a 10 year old girl with her mother who was imprisoned when she couldn’t pay a fine for stealing food to feed her daughter. The little girl was automatically placed in an orphanage where she allegedly suffered abuse. She was finally released in the New Year after a long court battle and is now housed by TFT until mum who is now employed can become sustainable.
Their Future Today's Bakery building is now open! This wonderful opportunity for institutionalised girls to be able to learn a new skill is so exciting. Not only are they learning to bake but they are also having fun outside the confines of their usually grim and boring existence, and enjoying a different experience and new tastes.
Piyumi was the inspiration behind Their Future Today, and our first reunited child. After five years in an orphanage she was reunited with her mother Badrani on the 27th of February 2010 in our first TFT house. We supported the family to self sufficiency and Piyumi goes to school and dreams of becoming an artist one day!
