BrighterPath Foundation

Support for Emerge Lanka

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We have been providing Emerge Lanka participants with ‘reintegration packs’. These packs are intended to provide those items which are essential for starting out in independent life.

Community

Support for Emerge Lanka

We are delighted to report on the support that we have been providing to Emerge Lanka. This is a non-profit which focusses on providing support for young girls who have suffered sexual violence. In Sri Lanka, most girls who suffer sexual abuse are placed into the care of the state. This is intended both as a witness protection measure and because the authorities often consider sexual abuse involving a minor to be a failure of both parents. Children who are survivors of abuse are therefore nearly always taken into institutional care rather than being supported in their own homes.

Like Brighter Path, Emerge Lanka tries to deal with the aftermath for these young women who have suffered the trauma not only of the original abuse but also the trauma of court hearings and being dislocated and removed from all that is familiar to them. Emerge runs residential programmes which help young people move on from the institutions in which they have been placed and into the community.

We have been providing Emerge with ‘reintegration packs’. These packs are intended to provide those items which are essential for starting out in independent life. They include toiletries, sanitary pads, basic first aid supplies, bed sheets and a towel, groceries, cooking utensils, a backpack or handbag for work, office shoes and much more. When girls leave Emerge’s home they are helped to find work. However, without support in the transitional period before they receive their first pay packet, they would otherwise have nothing to live on. These packs make a huge difference to the prospects of an individual girl successfully transitioning to independent living.

Further Reading

Education

Graduation Triumph

13-12-2022

This week a young care leaver living in one of our transition homes graduated with an upper second class degree in Sociology from the prestigious University of Colombo.  That would …

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Children's Homes

Underwear Donation

30-09-2023

In September Brighter Path donated 585 pairs of underpants to boys and girls in government children’s homes in the Bandarawella area. Although these children’s homes receive some state funding they …

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Children's Homes / Training

Training Clothes Donation

15-04-2024

Brighter Path provides regular support to the Vishaka Training Centre in Bandarawella.  This is a home for young girls in the care system who have been unable to remain in …

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