Educate Lanka
Address:
Sri Lanka
Description:
Educate Lanka empowers economically disadvantaged Sri Lankan children and youth by enhancing their access to education, mentoring, and employment opportunities. Their online global community crowdfunding model raises scholarship funds that provide long-term support for students, while local staff and volunteers also provide leadership and job skills training for success long after graduation. They have sponsored over 2,000 children over the past 10 years.
Mission Statement: Their mission is to empower economically disadvantaged children and youth by enhancing their access to education, mentoring, and employment opportunities.
Our Connection:
Catalyst Grant. Skees Family Foundation began working with Educate Lanka in 2014. Their model for education attainment within Sri Lanka is extremely effective and they have done really great work. We selected them because they fit well within our mission and we admired their passion to provide young children in Sri Lanka with an education.
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