<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p>I have setup this fundraising page to raise funds towards the 'Rainbow Centre' in Sri Lanka. www.rainbowcentresrilanka.com</p> <p>Its aim is to equip the children with the skills they need to break free from the poverty in which they live. Its primary focus is to enable children to access the educational system. To date, the Rainbow Centre has enabled 140 children to go to mainstream school.<br /><br />The Centre operates a free pre-school, nursery, day school, vocational training and scholarship programmes. It runs medical programmes for children and their families. It works to ensure, when possible, that children can enter into the mainstream school system. The Rainbow Centre is the only facility in this area for these children to turn to. It has been praised highly at national and local levels for its standard of care.<br /><br />The children who come to the Rainbow Centre live on the street, in shacks or in shelters in slum areas without water, sanitation or electricity. Their parents are unable to provide them with adequate care. Without the Rainbow Centre&rsquo;s intervention, these children would not be able to go to school because they would be expected to work to support their families.<br /><br />The Rainbow Centre operates out of newly constructed rented premises with a large secure garden in Bentota. It provides daily care, education and medical treatment for more than 50 children coming from an area stretching 30km from Deddowa to Beruwala. The children are brought to and from the Rainbow Centre by its own bus. It supports a further 50 underprivileged children, who are in the mainstream system with school transport, educational supplies, scholarships and welfare and medical support.</p> <p>&nbsp;Thank you for your donations to the charity and I'm sure it will be wisely used.</p> <p>With regards,</p> <p>Udarie.</p>