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Backpack Dreams 2024
Supporting Children’s Education Across Sri Lanka In a heartfelt effort to nurture young minds, ADT’s Children’s Sector—together with the Health Sector—launched the Backpack Dreams  initiative, bringing educational hope to over 300 children  across 16 regions  of Sri Lanka. From Punduloya  to Batticaloa , Trincomalee  to Galle , and Jaffna  to Balangoda , our backpacks journeyed across the island—each one carrying more than just school supplies, but a message of care and encou
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Gowry, a Glimpse of Hope amid the Hopelessness in Sri Lanka
Mrs Thiyagarasu Gowry aged 48 is from Manipakkam, Vavuniya. She has three adult sons who live with their mother. The eldest, 28, is a...
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The Skills Development Programme: Asmin
This initiative has been underway since 2018 and is geographically based in Eastern and North-Central Provinces specifically, in...
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The Business Development Unit
The Business Development Unit (BDU) of the ADT focuses its initiatives on empowering, equipping and building the lives of underprivileged...
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The Skills Development Programme: Madushani
This initiative has been underway since 2018 and is geographically based in Eastern and North-Central Provinces specifically, in...
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Juchrista's Teamwork Benefits the Greater Good
Juchrista wakes early to finish her house chores and take her little daughter to school. Life has not been easy for her since her husband...
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Ranjithamalar Tastes the Flavour of Happiness
Ranjithamalar is a very enterprising lady from Varani Iyattalai, Jaffna. She refused to accept defeat when her husband's demise resulted...
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Hotel Management Training
The ADT initiated a vocational training programme for school leavers, unskilled women and disabled persons with the aim of training them...
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Gangula - Clean Water for Residents of Palaviya
There is a marked increase of chronic renal failure reported amongst people living in the dry zone districts of Anuradhapura,...
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A Livelihood for Sivalingam
Sivalingam Karunakirinathan started his home industry in 2012 in Mungil Aru South, Udayar Kattu in Mullaitivu. His village was badly...
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