Volunteers to Assist Children with Disabilities

Their Future In Our Hands

A not-for-profit charity enriching the lives of children with disabilities in the poorest provinces of Sri Lanka

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Respecting, Valuing, and Upholding the Rights of Children with Disabilities

VACD’s goal is to enrich the lives of children with disabilities in the poorest provinces of Sri Lanka, by providing them with infrastructure & resources, supporting their development, teaching them skills to enable independent living, empowering them and their families to be accepted as equals and integrated within their local communities.

What Do We Do?

Health & Rehab

We facilitate the provision of regular health checkups, therapy, and rehabilitation services for our children with disabilities at our VACD centres and local hospitals and assist them to obtain specialist treatment when required. We also provide the children that attend our centres with a daily nutritional meal.

Economic Support

We provide skills training and micro finance to parents of children with disabilities to supplement their household income and financial support for families under significant financial stress.

Education

We provide specialist education, life skills and vocational training, computer literacy, music, dance, art, singing and sports training for our children at all our centres and monthly allowances for educational purposes for disabled children with academic potential or gifted siblings.

Advocacy

We engage with the local communities, businesses, the medical fraternity, and local government agencies to address issues relating to discrimination, sexual. emotional and physical abuse, social isolation, stigma etc. to uphold and promulgate the rights of children with disabilities and their families. Our Young VACD club members are the most influential advocates in this challenge.

Training & Support

Our VACD centers provide children and parents with a variety of life and vocational skills including leadership, advocacy, self-reliance. We also provide parents and children with special training at seminars, workshops and health & rehabilitation camps.

Latest Project Updates

VACD Australia & Sri Lanka March 2024 Newsletter

Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, and collaborative partners, Greetings to you, your families, loved ones, and colleagues from all of us at VACD. Senura Engineering staff visit to our Bandarawela Centre:  Staff from Senura Civil Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd,...

VACD Australia February 2024 Newsletter

Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, and collaborative partners, Greetings to you, your families, loved ones, and colleagues from all of us at VACD. Observing Thai Pongal at VACD  VACD’s leadership team, staff, children, their families, and local supporters of...

VACD Australia January 2024 Newsletter

Dear friends, colleagues, supporters, sponsors, and collaborative partners, “Heartfelt greetings and our very best wishes to you, your families, loved ones, and colleagues during 2024 and over the coming years” - VACD Australia & Sri Lanka teams. Delightful News:...