Action & Care Trust (ACT) is a connected, transparent and action-oriented non-profit Trust. We seek your support to continue our urgent medical relief and rehabilitation work for Sri Lankan war survivors. ACT has a three phase implementation plan: Emergency Relief (Phase 1: Complete), Rehabilitation (Phase 2: Underway) and Self Sustainability (Phase 3).

Download Full Proposal: Phase 2 Proposal (PDF)

ACT is not an NGO or similarly organized institution. Executive Trust Members volunteer their time. The significant advantage that ACT has is access. We have a positive relationship with the Army, Ministry Of Health, Presidential Secretariat and other relevant parties in the Sri Lankan government. This enables us to deliver goods into affected areas directly and personally. We have made medical donations during the war to hospitals in the North and currently have unrestricted access to all camps and hospitals.

Our Chairman, Professor A.H Sheriffdeen visits affected hospitals and makes recommendations on medicines and human resources needed. ACT submits these reports to the Ministry of Health, who allow us to publish the findings. Where medicines fall short, we try to meet the need and personally deliver all goods to hospitals and clinics. Goods delivered are inventoried and signed for by the receiving hospital.

Currently, we are moving into Phase 2: Rehabilitation. We deliver medicines, nutritional supplements and toys to Vavuniya General Hospital, Cheddikulam Base Hospital, Puvarasakulam Infectious Diseases Hospital, Padaviya Hospital and Menik Farm. The antibiotics, painkillers, paediatric medicines and nutritional supplements we deliver are consumed very rapidly and there is a constant demand.

Attached are reports on the present conditions of the areas in which we operate and our strategic response. The reports are compiled by ACT representatives in collaboration with area doctors. Most recently, we have seen rapid improvements in the camps but as monsoon rains come in, General Chandrasiri of the Sri Lanka Army has made urgent requests to us for cement, housing and effective waste management, to avoid the further spread of disease.

We require funds, urgently and constantly. We will provide receipts and have the authority to purchase medicine at wholesale prices. All monies raised will be directed toward medicine unless otherwise specified. We also accept donated goods, provided they are energy supplements or products specified as needed.

Action & Care Trust has been given a unique opportunity to continue to save Sri Lankan lives, either directly or indirectly. We will not waste it. Our Trust details including bank information are attached. We have made a commitment to ACT. Please join us.

Summary:

Menik Farm (Zone 4): ACT is supplying medicine, nutritional supplements and educational material to Zone 4. We are also constructing a community center and facilitating 112 units of temporary housing to serve IDPs in the camps.

Menik Farm (Zone 2): ACT is working with a partner to improve sanitation in this Zone, especially toilets and garbage. This is being done via supplies and by facilitating participation from local governments all over the island.

Cheddikulam: Cheddikulam Base Hospital is nearest to the camps. ACT is assisting by supplying medicine and equipment. The children’s and paediatric wards also need sponsorship in the form of equipment, toys, furnishings and more.

Puvarasakulam: This hospital houses rotating patients with infectious diseases. ACT is assisting with medicine and hopes to deliver nutrition and basic amenities to the patients.

Vavuniya: Vavuniya is the largest hospital in the region. It needs constant medical support for changing medical needs. ACT supplies medicine and also promote health and well-being through improved nutrition and recreation for the children.

Phase 2 Proposal (PDF)