Formed alcohol policy Alliance Nuwaraeliya Starting speeches Additional district secretary, Chairman District council,NGO coordinator ,DPC Healthy Lanka. The anticipation was District civil society council and INGOs and NGOs in Nuwaraeliya.  

Healthy Lanka Receives Presidential Award for Best Alcohol and Drug Prevention Organisation   Healthy Lanka Alliance for Development was presented with the award for Best Alcohol and Drug Prevention Organisation for the year 2015 by His Excellency Maitripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, at a special ceremony held on 23rd July 2016. The award was presented in recognition of Healthy Lanka’s dedicated services to the country towards creating a well-informed society free from alcohol and drugs. Since it was established as a FORUT partner organisation in 2011, Healthy Lanka has worked actively with communities in eight districts in the country as well as government institutions and civil society organisations. The aforementioned award was presented especially...

Heathy Lanka Alliance for Development Flood Relief Operations May – June 2017   Statistics of the effected families and people in 04 effected district   The recent monsoon rains caused severe flooding that affected families in 4 out of Healthy Lanka’s 8 working districts. The affected districts are Rathnapura, Matara, Galle, and Hambantota. While the government provided food and immediate relief items to the affected families, Healthy Lanka worked with government officers and its ADD youth groups to assist the flood affected families to rebuild their lives and return to their day to day activities. The numbers of affected persons in the abovementioned districts are as follows.   Rathnapura District   Kiriella Divisional Secretariat Area   Affected families – 116...

Grassroots level interventions are the focus of the organization and considered as important as the actual reduction of consumption and change of behavior taking place in the target locations. Change of individual behavior is expected to happen as a result of individual awareness and understanding increase and most importantly as a result of a social environment change and setting change in which the Alcohol is deglamorised and demystified. A very capable team, trained and capacitated for demystifying and deglamorizing alcohol, is working in the field level are working with Healthy Lanka at Grassroots level.

The violation of child rights is highly prevalent in Sri Lanka, especially among low income households or in households and households in which one or more family members are users of alcohol or drugs. The meager incomes, further drained by alcohol and drug use, result in children being deprived of basic needs such as proper nutrition, education, and housing as well as adequate clothing, and healthcare. Furthermore, children from abusive homes suffer severe physical and psychological damage that can have lasting consequences. Because of the lack of awareness, many children continue to live in an environment which is detrimental to their physical and mental health. Healthy Lanka seeks to improve this situation be implementing programmes to uplift the health and...