Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development, Sri Lanka

To facilitate integrated sustainable social help programs in local communities through self-empowerment and enrichment.

CORD Sri Lanka is the service wing of the Chinmaya Mission Sri Lanka and was established in 2005 in the aftermath of the Tsunami disaster on December 2004. We adhere to the mission and policies of the Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development (CORD), the charitable wing of the Chinmaya Mission, which is also based in India. CORD’s mission is to harness human resources and enable the poor to transform their lives through programmes driven by themselves. CORD Sri Lanka is a non-government, non-profit organization and registered as a charity in Sri Lanka. We have expanded our activities to include short and long term relief efforts in the North and East in addition to working at grass root levels towards the development and empowerment of women and children. Charitable projects have reached across Colombo, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, and the up-country, benefitting various groups in which men, women, youth, and children actively participate. Our programs and activities are designed according to the particular age groups, abilities, needs, resources, etc

For more information please visit our website www.cordsrilanka.org