EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka

About us

EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka is an environmental and community focused organization. Over the past 30 years we have worked with our partners and stakeholders to protect the environment, create green jobs and develop communities, human-animal conflict, and for women and youth to achieve their potential.
We are now working towards creating great impact by supporting vulnerable communities through social enterprise, conflict resolution, disability rights and social justice to empower our communities to ensure no one is left behind.

Vision
Creating a healthy, vibrant, progressive responsible participatory community sector which contributes to social cohesion, equality and justice.

Mission
To protect the basic human rights of the most vulnerable people - women, children and the displaced and to support the attainment of adequate means of income generation, health care, education, security and environmental sustainability, while actively influencing government and industry towards greener policies and practices.

Our work
• Human-elephant conflict - Protecting gentle giants while supporting communities: A tusker is killed every 15 minutes. Border village communities and farmers are the affected by this conflict too. We are working to provide awareness, livelihood generation activities and rally communities to protect our elephants to stop poaching and elephant deaths.
• Disability support and social justice - No one left behind: From awareness to livelihood generation activities, we provide persons with disabilities in Sri Lanka due to previous conflict, with the ability to start over and have a new life through access to employment, up-skilling and education.
• Sustainable livelihood development and organic agri-business - Sustainable green jobs for a greener future: We provide consultations through experts and societies, training and skills building, technical knowledge exchange and capacity building. -
• Cottage business for women - Empowering women, empowering families: Skills building, capacity development and consultancy for start-up, small and medium entrepreneurial women who are taking charge of their financial futures.
• Solar support - Solar for now and for the future: Our work revolves around creating access and promoting Solar cookers, Solar units, Solar maintenance and Solarization of existing electricity grid and firewood dependents.
• Environmental conservation and protection - Without our environment, we are nothing: Scientific greening of areas affected by unplanned development, reforestation, biodiversity conservation and the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.
• Education, leadership and community development - Engaging youth leaders for better future leadership: Creating future leaders who work with Sustainable Development Goals through intensive training programmes for a better future.
• Rebuilding affected schools in the North of Sri Lanka - Creating harmony and co-existence: Working towards better harmony and better education initiatives to rebuild our people.
• Legal aid and advocacy - Empowering youth, women and communities legally: We ensure that communities who need access to legal information, legal aid and support are able to access it through us. Our advocacy work engages civil and community groups in gaining land rights, human rights, transparent legal processes and become empowered to take a stand especially through paralegal training.
• Volunteer and intern development programme - Volunteering for personal and organizational development: We engage and build up our volunteers' skills and capabilities in becoming the next generation of changemakers, be it through research, innovative solution creation and project implementation.

Ekanayake Abeyrathne is the Director and Suvin Daksith is the Manager of Partnerships and Outreach at EMACE Foundation of Sri Lanka.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.