Sri Lanka Is in a Historic Crisis!
InMetta
Emergency Food Aid
Who We Are
Right now, more than 30% of Sri Lankans are food insecure. With our partners on the ground, we currently support 1000 people across the Sabaragamuwa Province with direct food aid. We have provided aid to 22000 families since the crisis began. Our goal is to serve 1,000,000!
Together with the Institute for Professional Studies and Skill Development, we have distributed food biweekly and, where necessary, delivered dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, and stocked and operated two different food kitchens.
InMetta emerges out of over ten years of relationship building across Sri Lanka. We work in close partnership with our communities and individuals across the island to enable a loving, healthy, just, and more balanced world for all beings and living entities in all facets of life, where inequality, greed, food and water insecurity, prejudice, human trafficking, and greed are distant memories.
Emerging Projects
Food Sovereignty
Together with a range of local partners, we finance and develop organic school, home, and community gardens across Sri Lanka. In a country suffering from widespread malnutrition, we empower our community partners to produce healthy foods to feed themselves and their communities, following the indigenous Sri Lankan regenerative farming technique of agroecology.
From the Imagination to the Market
We are developing training programs for rural artisans and farmers on how to form cooperatives and collectively bring their products to national and international markets.
The Roots of InMetta
Rural Food Sovereignty Education
Together with Api Yaluwo, a community organization in Southern Sri Lanka, we have supported the development of food sovereignty initiatives at local schools. So far, we have taught over fifty young men and women to grow food organically and use local organic vegetables to cook healthy meals. These efforts are intended to fight the prevalence of diabetes and other noutrition-related diseases in the region. They then distribute meals freely in local villages.
School Supply Donations
Over multiple years, we have hosted dozens of events at three different local schools, providing hundreds of children with books, notebooks, backpacks, shoes, and other supplies necessary for these impoverished children to receive excellent educations.
Tamil Children’s Home
In partnership with the Sri Bodhiraja Foundation, we successfully helped raise the funds to pay for building an orphanage for Tamil children in rural Rakwana in the Ratnapura District.
Library Seeding
Beginning in 2014 until the onset of COVID, we had personally donated books and soon thereafter established a relationship with various foundations to both seed new school libraries and supplement existing ones with English novels, materials and text books across southern Sri Lanka. These schools were generally impoverished areas and lacked access and resources to English books.
Beginning with a focus to establish one library to meet the needs of one English medium school, this project grew to support over 120 schools and orphanages. To date, we have provided over 8,000 English-language books, from pre-K to A-level reading levels. A direct result of this project has been the rise in English literacy in our partner schools, as well as the ability for students to continue on to A-level education and be accepted into university.