Our sewing room provides opportunities for disadvantaged girls, to learn new skills and gives hope for future employment and a better life.
TFT Bakery building is now open! This wonderful opportunity for institutionalised girls to be able to learn a new skill is so exciting. Not only are they learning to bake but they are also having fun outside the confines of their usually grim and boring existence, and enjoying a different experience and new tastes. On completion of the course, they will receive NVQ certificates which will give them employment opportunities, and in time we plan to make the Bakery income-generating.
Our sewing room provides opportunities for disadvantaged girls, to learn new skills and gives hope for future employment and a better life.
TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS
WE DO NOT SUPPORT ORPHANAGES
WE DO SUPPORT THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN IN THEM
While advocating to end institutionalisation, and promoting family care alternatives,
it is essential to give children in orphanages the care and love they need and dignity they deserve for healthy brain development,
which will ensure more successful reintegration into families, ability to concentrate academically and form future long term relationships
In August 2019 we completed the first specialist Childcare training programme for housemothers in a state institution and opened an orphanage preschool for 3 to 5 year olds to introduce early learning development skills, based on our successful TFT International Preschool model.
This has greatly improved the childrens day to day well being, stimulation and happiness which will result in more successful adulthoods and reduce the chances of abandoning their own children in orphanages in the future, which frequently happens.
We also provide children with special needs with physio and speech therapy and supply sports equipment, arrange activity days, vocational training and employment opportunities for older institutionalised children.
Since it its creation TFT have been committed to improving conditions and raising standards in institutions while at the same time identifying children who can be reunited with their families.
As a respected Sri Lankan registered charity TFT has built strong relationships and trust over many years to work closely with National Childcare Services, while managing our funds directly at all times.
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Empowering 100 Disadvantaged Sri Lankan Girls
TFT is giving a voice to institutionalised children who survive alone and afraid and are denied access to their basic human rights of love and education. This institution houses 100 young girls from 10 years old, some who are mothers, have suffered rape, abuse, and rejection from their families. They are locked up for punishment and protection and released at 18 years old with little or no education or self worth. This project creates the gift of life skills and qualifications to build a future.
TFT held a training for National Childcare and Probation Services in Deinstitutionalisation (DI) and Family Care alternatives including Foster Care. With the collaboration of our Global partners.
Girls in an orphanage thanking our Founder for art, sewing, remedial and English classes.
TFT organises activity days to give abandoned and disadvantaged children the chance to play together.
20 TFT housemothers passed their assessments and proudly received certificates. This dark and sinister place has finally been transformed into a happier and more positive environment with kindness and love, and an understanding of the importance of attachment in a child's development. One housemother said she was happy, because the children were happy.
We provide physiotherapy, massage therapy and speech therapy for children with disabilities, which has helped them develop strength in their muscles to be able to walk and run, for the first time.
A lorry load of cricket equipment was donated by Hampton School to more than one hundred children in an orphanage who couldn't be more happy to play with real equipment.
Our bakery provides opportunities for disadvantaged girls, to learn new skills and gives hope for future employment and a better life.
TFT built a classroom to enable more rooms for education and vocational training for a 100 girls.
Our sewing room provides opportunities for disadvantaged girls, to learn new skills and gives hope for future employment and a better life.