Our Work in Sri Lanka
In September 2025, the C4H team joined forces with the One Nation Youth Team and local Sri Lankan partners for a focused humanitarian deployment to several regions of Sri Lanka.
One major highlight of the visit was the on-the-ground inspection of the orphanage currently being built by One Nation. This facility is intended to offer safe shelter, education, psychosocial support and a nurturing environment for orphaned children and widows, and the team was able to walk the site, meet with project managers, and understand the construction timelines and challenges firsthand. By witnessing the building in progress, the team reinforced donor confidence, deepened their connection with the project and identified next steps for completion and hand-over.
Throughout the trip the team conducted a variety of activities:
- Delivering food packs and hot meals to households facing food insecurity in remote villages.
- Supplying school materials and bags to children in need, aiming to remove financial barriers to education.
Facilitating income-generating projects such as sewing machines, bikes with vending carts and even canoes (for coastal fishing communities) to support sustainable livelihoods and economic independence. This approach ensures the aid provided doesn’t only meet immediate needs but also contributes to long-term resilience and dignity for families.
Help empower our sisters to start their own business. They will be able to sew new clothes, repair existing clothes and provide a much-needed service, whether it be serving the community, providing for businesses or even providing clothes for schools. This is a project which will help build families. Our team delivered sewing machines in the eastern region of Sri Lanks to help empower individuals and support their families
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Canoes will allow individuals to start their own fishing business. For £330 they will be provided the canoe, the paddles and the side float. Empowering individuals so that they can provide for themselves and their families. Canoes are quite often used for Fishing or for transportation, providing a steady income for the Beneficiary. Our team distributed on the 2025 Sri Lanka Deployment to 30 Beneficiaries, allowing them to start a livelihood which will continue for generations.
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This project allows individuals to buy and sell, whether it be food items or non-food items, individuals will have the ability to travel on these bikes to buy products and to travel to nearby vicinities to sell products. They will quickly become self-sustaining. Our teams distributed this to multiple beneficiaries during the deployment.
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Children sometimes have to carry their school books, packed lunch and other essential items to school with their hands full or sometimes have to go without. Quite often carrying books by hand leads to them being open to the elements and also the children themselves getting tired. A school bag will help a child carry their school belongings safely and securely, and avoiding tiredness. For many this is an item that parents simply cannot afford for their children. Our team delivered School Bags on the ground during the deployment across several villages and schools where children had an urgent need.
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One food pack provides the essential staple ingredients that will help provide a family with food that will last up to a month. It contains items such as Rice, Oil, Flour and other essentials. Our team distributed Food Packs on the ground during the deployment across several communities where families were struggling.
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Providing bicycles to schoolchildren in Sri Lanka helps overcome distance and transport challenges, especially in rural areas where schools are far from home. Bicycles improve attendance, punctuality, and student well-being while reducing the financial burden on families. By enabling reliable access to education, bicycle programs support better learning outcomes and long-term opportunities for children.
Read MoreThe team spent valuable time connecting with local communities, listening to personal stories of hardship and resilience, and strengthening relationships with local partners and volunteers. This hands-on engagement showed that C4H participants do far more than raise funds—they become ambassadors, storytellers, and a vital link between donors and the people they help. The experience reignited motivation within the team and reinforced the shared purpose behind our mission.
This Sri Lanka deployment showcased the powerful combination of long-term infrastructure work—such as the orphanage construction—alongside essential distributions and livelihood support. It reflects C4H’s core values in action. By witnessing the impact firsthand, donors and participants gained renewed confidence that their contributions are creating real, lasting change and that volunteers are directly seeing the lives being transformed.