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Learn about farming and community while tasting the authentic foods of Deniyaya, Sri Lanka

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  2025 

 Min stay requested: 1 month or more

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  • Description

    Description

    We a local NGO based in Deniyaya close to the World heritage -Singharaja rain forest in Southern Sri Lanka with the 2000 members engaged in farming and 80% of them are women. We work with International and National Donors to upgrade the lifestyle of this community under the thematic area of Gender Equality, Climate Change ,Sustainable Livelihood, Environmental conservation and Cultural Development .
    We consists of 5 staff members and 10 volunteers with English Language ability and operating in well-equipped office.
    Also, our operational area consists of rural Sinhala community and plantation area with Tamil community with various cultural and traditional rituals and foods and dress habits.
    We provide comfortable food and lodging facilities for the visitors who arrive to get new experience and lesson learnt exchange with farming community.
    Our staff gained in fullest cooperation for them arranging field visits and stay with member families engaged in local hospitality and customs.
    The Whole our operational area is beautiful natural misty mountain area with marvelous water falls, wild animals, birds, paddy fields and tea plantations, Also a lot of edible forest products are available in this area .
    Our staff is engaged in providing secure facilities and proper guiding to the visitors engaged in the assignment in rural farming system and farmers innovates activities
    .The paid staff
    1.Miss: Nimesha - The Project Coordinator-Project coordinating activities
    2.Miss; J.D. Shashuni Hansika-The Finance Officer-All the financial managing, budgeting and paying
    3..Mrs: H.Renuka- Administrative Assistant-All the administrative functioning and HR Development
    4.Miss; M.S. N.-The Field Officer-All the field activities and coordinate the Volunteers
    5.Miss; .L.G.-The Field Officer -All the field activities and coordinate the Volunteers

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Hospitality/Tourism
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • Interests

    Interests

    Vegetarian or vegan
    Farming
    Languages
    Cooking & food
    Outdoor activities
    Nature
    Van life
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    The visitors can participate the religious and cultural activities held at Buddhist Temples, Christian Churches and Hindu Kovils in this areas with the guidance of our staff.
    Most of the our members dwell in the village basis and our staff facilitate to participate for them and the visitors can learn a lot of oriental cultural initiatives inclusive Indian typed dances and traditional devil dances and rituals
    Also the visitors can learn traditional herbal medicine process that help to prevent from evils
    Also the visitors can learn Sinhala and Tamil Languages while staying with these families. and taste traditional food stuffs

  • Charity

    Registered charity

    This host is a registered charity in their country and is looking for volunteers to help with their project(s).

  • Help

    Help

    Most of the visitors have opportunity to work with women farmers at their home gardens to share experience and knowledge at Mushroom cultivation, Bee-keeping, Dairy farming, Cottage industries , value added food processing and local food preparation sustaining nutrition.
    Our members in the plantation sector is Indian originated Tamils with sub cultural customs and they are making Indian typed foods and the visitors have opportunity to learn and taste such foods and to watch Hindu religious cultural festival held at Hindu Kovils in this area. Also the visitors can enjoyed much with traditional Devil dance and religious festivals held in the rural areas
    The visitors can spend in the leisure time with teaching English language to the small kids in this area under the guidance of our staff members.
    At the weekends the visitors can hike mountains ,watching waterfalls, bathing at rivers and streams and crossing the rain forest and the slippery rocks at Patana close to Deniyaya town.
    Also the visitors can enter in the tea plucking and watch tea processing in the tea factories and taste the genuine black tea.
    The visitors can teach this disadvantaged women on how to improve their talents and resilient by playing small games and we arrange women group meeting to share the experience and creativity.

  • Languages spoken

    English: Fluent
    Sinhalese: Fluent
    Tamil: Intermediate

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We provide accommodation facilities with English understanding families and provide separate secure rooms with independent living room and veranda facing to the river and beautiful paddy field. The single room consists of sufficient furniture and attached bath room .
    The visitor can spend hassle -free life there with Sri Lankan type foods- rice and curry ,breads ,hoppers ,string hoppers, banana, fruit juice and tea and milk tea.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    The visitors can teach English Language and learn Sinhala and Tamil Languages at the free times and learn how prepare local foods. Also they can visit surrounding area and southern costal belt
    We provide transport facilities at the field works by three wheelers and the visitors can hire tuk-tuk at lowest cost as there are a lot of tuk-tuk hiring places in this area.
    Also there are sufficient food shops and banks as Deniyaya is a tourist destination .
    The general public is very familiar with foreigners as a lot of tourist hotels and tourists cross this area annually.
    The paid staff
    1.Miss: Nimesha - The Project Coordinator-Project coordinating activities
    2.Miss; J.D. Shashuni Hansika-The Finance Officer-All the financial managing, budgeting and paying
    3..Mrs: H.Renuka- Administrative Assistant-All the administrative functioning and HR Development
    4.Miss; M.S. N.-The Field Officer-All the field activities and coordinate the Volunteers
    5.Miss; .L.G.-The Field Officer -All the field activities and coordinate the Volunteers

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    The visitor can help to the community on how to make on line business to improve their business as these community are far away such digital mode business process

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

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