Educate 33 children with disabilities in Sri Lanka

GlobalGiving Report June 10, 2025

 Intense thanks to GlobalGiving for their support of the E.A.S.E. Foundation.  You enable us to provide many services to people with disabilities and their families.  Our core program provides education for students with disabilities, especially those with autism.  Children with disabilities are often neglected and offered a dull task-oriented education.  We stimulate their brains with age-appropriate academics.  In fact, we are preparing one student for the O Levels.  For non-speaking students we introduce an alternative way of communication. Using this we have nurtured essayists and poets.  To nurture creativity, we have arts and crafts too. our beautiful home decor items are sold at the annual International Christmas Charity Bazaar. 

We celebrated World Autism day on the 2nd of April with a concert.  The students and staff practiced for weeks. They put on a concert enjoyed by families and friends.A special feature was a dance item by the mothers.

We also do fun things like an annual trip to the beach.  We invite a parent along for each student and go to one of Sri Lanka’s famous beaches.  A group of young volunteers come along to provide respite for parents and more fun for kids.  We also bring along snacks.  Lunch is at a good hotel.

We help families with a bi-annual distribution of dry essential foods.  We also encourage self-employment by giving a few families sewing machines and training on them to enable the mothers to take in sewing orders. 

GlobalGiving enables us to do all this by channeling funds from donors and doing some fundraising for us.  Without your help we would not be able to have the intense impact we make on these vulnerable and marginalized families.