🌧️ URGENT APPEAL - SRI LANKA NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT NOW 🌧️

(Photo courtesy Galigamuwe Gnanadeepa Thero's Facebook Page)

Dear friends,

Sri Lanka is currently facing a severe humanitarian crisis as relentless torrential rains have triggered widespread flooding and landslides across the country.

• Hundreds of lives lost, with many still missing

• Thousands of families displaced, homes swept away

• Schools, transport, and essential services heavily disrupted

• Thousands urgently need food, shelter, clean water, and medical aid

The road to recovery will be long — but your support can save lives right now.

💛 How You Can Help
You can make a donation through the Ranaviru Fund, a well-established UK-registered charity that has supported Sri Lanka for over 17 years:

👉 https://www.paypal.com/uk/fundraiser/charity/38286

🇬🇧 UK taxpayers: Please remember to select Gift Aid to increase your donation at no extra cost. (Tax relief available for higher rate tax payer)

We appeal to the Sri Lankan community in the UK and across the world — and to all friends of Sri Lanka:

✔️ Donate whatever you can — every contribution counts
✔️ Share this message widely to help us reach more people

Together, we can help rebuild lives and bring hope to those affected by this tragedy.

🫶 Thank you for your compassion and support.

'Ranaviru Fund' and 'Scotland Buddhist Vihara', two Scotland based Charities have been working in Sri Lanka over the years in providing welfare and medical aid for people in need, now also partnered with the Sri Lankan Association in Scotland (www.slascot.org.uk) to provide assistance to the people need assistance to get back to their normal lifestyle.

What we are doing

We are sourcing the items required to re-establish the lifestyle of the people affected. All required material and aid will be facilitated by our volunteers in Sri Lanka and support offered will be coordinated through the District and Divisional Secretariat Offices in the respective regions affected.

How you can help

At this stage we will collect financial donations through our online donation facility via PayPal Giving Fund to raise funds to deliver suitable and required assistance to the families to get back to their normal life at the earliest possible. We do not collect money, items, goods or have appointed any other agents or persons to collect funds on our behalf. We are currently appealing for funds only and all donations to be made via the below mentioned secure link provided by PayPal Giving Fund UK.

Please donate generously and also Gift Aid (via email confirmation) your donation if you are a UK Tax Payer (Tax relief available for higher rate tax payer).

Follow the link below to make your donation securely and swiftly:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/fundraiser/charity/38286

We appreciate if you could pass this message on to your friends, family, colleagues and other contacts so we could provide the maximum possible support. 

Thank you.

Supporting those in need in partnership:

Ranaviru Fund - www.ranavirufund.org
Scotland Buddhist Vihara - www.scotlandbuddhistvihara.org 
Sri Lankan Association in Scotland (SLAS) - www.slascot.org.uk

If any questions or queries, please contact any of the following;

Ven Rewatha Thero for Scotland Buddhist Vihara on +44 786 909 4567
Dhammika Siripala for Ranaviru Fund on +44 780 709 5991
Dimuthu Mirissearachchi for SLAS on +44 7988 763 752
Irosh Ravi Peiris for SLAS on +44 796 086 0044

Similar Past Projects

Heavy rains from Thursday 12^th May 2016 pounded the central Sri Lankan region where at least three villages have swallowed by mountains of mud, forcing soldiers and police to suspend rescue work. Ranaviru Fund together with the Scotland Buddhist Vihara, Sri Lankan Association in Scotland and well wishers delivered a community project for the welfare of the devastated families to recover their livelihood.

The full report from the above project is available here.