SRI LANKA
( Wings of Hope )
Wings of Hope works collaboratively with local faith communities to offer programmes that promote a sense of personal worth and potential amongst women and children in Colombo’s slum communities and Hatton’s tea plantations.
Their programmes seek to strengthen families and communities through education, health and nutrition, skills and vocational training, income generation and self-help groups, and awareness workshops.
Wings of Hope was established in 2013 by Rebecca Alexander. She herself is the daughter of tea plantation workers, and as a child she was sponsored under a similar programme. With the opportunities provided to her through sponsorship she excelled at school, trained as an English teacher and eventually took up a position in an NGO teaching English to marginalised children in slum communities. Then in 2013 she started Wings of Hope, having experienced first-hand in her own life what a difference sponsorship and support can make in the life of a child and their family.
“Sponsorship changed my life completely and I am living proof of it. It is not only the financial support, but the prayers behind it. Many sponsors pray for their children, and I have seen miracles happen at the Centre where we work. Sponsorship transforms lives and it opens the doors of opportunity to children who have nothing. Sponsorship broke the cycle of poverty in my family. My sponsorship didn’t just help me, it helped my whole family. Sponsorship paved the way for a new beginning for my family, and our God is a God of hope and new beginnings. This is what Wings of Hope is all about”
– Rebecca Alexander, COO Wings of Hope
Sri Lanka _ Wings of Hope
Exists to empower women and children in Sri Lanka to live out a purpose-filled life with hope and confidence.
132 million
girls are out of school
(world wide)
20%
