Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement

Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, the founder of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
A. T. Ariyaratne in a group (in the middle)
Dr Vinya S. Ariyaratne, executive director of the Sarvodaya Movement, presents a conflict-sensitive reconstruction project (Conflict Sensitive Reconstruction Project). Vienna, Austria (28 February 2008)
Map Room at the headquarters of the Sarvodaya Movement in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2004)
Magazine at the headquarters of the Sarvodaya Movement (31 December 2004)
Magazine at the headquarters of the Sarvodaya Movement (31 December 2004)
Food and supplies to be delivered (31 December 2004)

The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement is a self-governance movement in Sri Lanka, which provides comprehensive development and conflict resolution programs to villages. It is also the largest indigenous organization working on reconstruction from the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Founded in 1958 by A. T. Ariyaratne when he took “forty high school students and twelve teachers from Nalanda College Colombo on “an educational experiment” to an outcaste village, Kathaluwa, and helped the villagers fix it up.

As of 2006, Sarvodaya staff people and programs are active in some 15,000 (of 38,000) villages in Sri Lanka. The organization estimates that 11 million citizens are individual beneficiaries of one of its programs. The group distributes funds from a financial reserve bank of 1.6 billion rupees.[1]

The Sarvodaya movement belongs to the Global Ecovillage Network.[2]

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  2. ^ Ross Jackson (2004). "The Ecovillage Movement". Permaculture Magazine. Letter to. Retrieved 31 December 2012.