Collaborative Action for the Clean City of Galle

Micro Finance Program for Community Empowerment HELP‐O’s microfinance unit issues small loans to the rural poor who cannot qualify for traditional banking credit.    Micro‐finance is often seen as the only way they can establish a business and lift themselves out of poverty.  In 2006, we received two loans from Norwegian NGO, The Stromme Foundation, totaling 12.2…

Rehabilitation Project & Cleaning Project In 2004 many of districts were badly affected by the Tsunami. Galle and Matara are two districts badly affected. HELP‐O implemented cleanup program with the affected people and we able to rebuild their minds for a positive way and this is psychosocial program activity. Cleaning the city was very essential…

Livelihood Development Project Lives and properties have been sacrificed to the Indian Ocean due to recent Tsunami disaster. The livelihoods of citizens in Sri Lanka have been destroyed against their sights. Therefore, we had to go towards them to assist with their survival. Thus, HELP‐O started, initially, to collect real information of affected people and…