Project Overview

Our Vocational Training Centre aims to give the most disadvantaged young people a second chance in life, by giving them the skills and confidence to engage them to either take up an employment or start-up their own business.

Project Background

LCH has an opportunity to work with the Paranthan Hindu Maha Vidyalayam (PHMV) in partnership to create vocational training centre for the youth and other vulnerable age groups in Paranthan, Sri Lanka. As part of their commitment, the PHMV provide the venue and ensure the facilities are adequate for the evening and weekend vocational training programme and PHMV will be solely responsible for running the programme. LCH will provide the financial assistance to run those identified vocational training course and be a responsible partner.

This project is approved by the Director of Education, Zonal Education Office, Kilinochi on 12th November 2010.

Sewing Course

Gathering ground details from many trusted sources, LCH with support of PHMV, has realise that there is a high demand for sewing course and believed this will provide a steppingstone for a few to start their own business and generate income for them.

Off-school hours such as evening and weekend have been chosen to maximise the available resource and provide opportunity to vast amount of local to take part in the course.

Duration of the course is expected to be between 5 to 6 months. 30 students are expected to take part in the course. It is expected some may dropped out due to family reasons.

LCH Support

• Provided full financial assistance to renovate and make the premises suitable for the purpose
• Provided financial assistant for billboards
• Funded for the machineries, purchased 9 sewing machines and other necessary kits required
• Funded for the required skilled tutor and assistant tutor and also funded for a supervisor to ensure smooth operation.

Supporting Documents

Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Report 4

Unprecedented heavy rains continue and causing greater disturbance to livelihood in Eastern Province and some part of Northern Province. Estimated over a million persons displaced and more than one thousand houses damaged beyond repair and many more thousands houses partly damaged.

All schools are closed; people are taking refuge in schools and religious centers. The forecast predict the heavy rains likely to be continue for next few days or even weeks, more people are likely to leave their home and seek refuge.

Event like these are very unfortunate and it is important that we all should do whatever we can to give to those needy and help to get them back to normalcy. First priority is saving their life and ensures they have food and medicine and this shall help to minimise possible deceases come with.

LCH have already released £550.00 to provide immediate humanitarian help and this will be channel through Manitha Neayam Trust.

This is Mr S Murugananthan, 48 from Vanni one of many badly affected individual by the civil war in Sri Lanka. He was the sole bread winner supporting his wife and 3 young children. During the recent conflict, he has lost his 3 limbs and unable to support his family.

When LCH came to know the terrible state of the family, the committee has unanimously agreed to provide immediate and continuous support for foreseeable period. Presently we are providing RS 5000/= per month through another charity in Sri Lanka.

The family is trying their best to stand on their own feet. They have made a humble request for small sum of money to start-up a small chicken or cattle farm, so they do not need to depend on the current monthly support of LCH. This request from this family is really touched us! Consider the current state of the family, with above request they have shown a great degree of will to lead an independent life. The core aim of the LCH is creating informed, independent and vibrant society; this family could a one great example.

Would you like to help to Mr Murugananthan family, so they can stand on their own feet and lead a normal life? Come forward, join us and provide whatever small or big of your support.

Cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ~

The conventional war may be over but the real challenge now is to foster an environment where fractured and displaced Tamil communities can heal and have a real chance at creating a future for themselves and their children.

Some 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDP), many of them children, live in government camps in the north, after fleeing fightings.

Concerns are growing that the number of malnourished children is higher than earlier estimated among thousands of recently displaced in Sri Lanka.

We are also very concerned about the suffering of pregnant and birthing mothers without access to medical facilities.

It is estimated that 13 percent of the IDP population is younger than five, with one in four or some 10,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition, humanitarian sources told IRIN.

Their situation has become worse. Women who have given birth to babies recently are experiencing complications from bleeding and there are no hospital facilities available in the area.

With no kerosene oil, there are no lamps to light up the camp site area and children and women are at high risk during the night. Most of these tents are going to flood due to the heavy monsoon rains, so families are going to face additional difficulties.

If you would like a full progress report on LCH’s work to help the nutrition for displaced children is available by emailing
admin@lotuscaringhands.org.uk

Young Lotus Caring Hands, a wing of LCH was launched to serve the youth successfully initiated the chess workshop in Dec 2019. This project, unlike the previous ones strives to stimulate the thinking capacity of the youth based in our Local UK communities aiming to shape it into skilful thinking.

The workshop takes a different dimension in promoting teamwork, and formulating the concentration skills amidst the capable youth with a hope of diverting them from their attraction to electronic gadgets. Various examples show that children who engage in chess tend to thrive well in their educational and career development due to the skills developed that enables problem-solving, planning, patience, focus of thought and self-discipline

The chess club was conducted at the Alperton Community School on Saturday the 30th November and was fortunate to be conducted by Sainbayar Tserendorj, Manager, Trainer, International Arbiter, FIDE Instructor, Accredited Coach of ECF and his daughter Miss Sainbayer who has successfully coached several National players. The inauguration session was conducted with a free chess workshop where it witnessed a huge turnout of at-least twenty eager young children all anxious to develop their aspiring chess skills.

It must be admitted though a much bigger turnout was anticipated, those who were present proved to be promising candidates to join LCH’s weekly chess programme set to be conducted from the 7th Jan 2020 at Northolt.

There will be weekly sessions conducted every Saturday for a couple of hours where the programme will be carried out by Mr Sainbayar Tserendorj. A nominal fee will be charged from the participants where the funds received will subsidise the cost of organising this club.

The LCH directors took pride in organising this event by recruiting Mr Tserendorj and incorporating few anxious parents depicting that teamwork could reach miles.

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