ACTIVITIES

The Poorna Health Care Trust has over the past 10 years undertaken the following activities.

Provided the unemployed, retired and needy with prescription glasses.

Conducted Homeopathy clinics regularly from 1995 on a regular weekly basis. These clinics have treated hundreds of patients free.

Provides medicine and monthly visits by doctors to the Preethipura Home in Hendala where they treat both the children and old people who are permanent residents at the Home. The staff and workers are also treated on these visits.

A monthly wage is paid to the House- Mother of the Sahinda Children’s Home in Pettah Colombo. This home shelters street children and provides education and care for the children.

A monthly payment to the Carmelite Convent, Mattakuliya is paid for medicines for sick Nuns.

The Poorna Health Care Trust has provided flood and drought relief to areas effected during the past five years as well as to some persons affected by the ethnic problems in Sri Lanka.  (Insert Report)

Assistance with building a “Baby Unit” at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo. The Construction costs was funded by the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

HUMANE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

A Schools Programme entitled “Compassionate Citizen” has been screened to thousands of school children through The Society for the Protection of Animal Rights (SPAR). Our Trustee, Penny Jayewardene was felicitated by the Hindu Ladies Organization in December 2005 for this  Community Work.

Humane Education through promoting a vegetarian lifestyle:

Reverence for all life is a value of great importance. It is an essential factor in the development and promotion of ethnic harmony and respect for our fellow beings, animals and the environment.

“All beings long for happiness, therefore extend compassion to all”
            -Lord Gautama Buddha-

“There is not an animal on earth, nor a bird that flies on its wings but they are communities like you”
            -The Holy Quran-

“The highest religion is to rise to universal brotherhood, aye to consider all creatures your equals”
            -Guru Nanak-

“Kindness to animals is the highest religion”
            -Lord Krishna-

“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from shelter compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men”
            -St. Francis of Assisi-

Poorna Health Care Trust has embarked on an education in human values programme with special emphasis on the reverence for life. This aspect of our work has been mainly done through vegetarian exhibitions, cookery demonstrations, screening of films which highlights the need for conserving the earths natural resources, reverence for life and the nutritional benefits of a vegetarian diet.

 

TSUNAMI RELIEF PROJECTS

Drought Relief Project –September, October, November, December 2001

In mid 2001 the south-east of our Island suffered very severe draught. The PHCT carried out relief operations and supplied water, medicines, dry rations, water tanks and pumps to several affected areas.

We received a donation from Chan and Rosemarie Chandran in Singapore which enabled us to hire a 28000 Ltr. water bowser for a ten day period. We dispatched  the bowser to Hambantota where it provided water to 150 families. The bowser was filled 15 times a day and was used in areas most affected by the drought.

The people served were the poorest of the poor who lived as small farmers and brick makers. Without water there were no crops and daily life had come to a standstill.  With the water we distributed dry rations and also held a medical camp in a central location.

We also assisted a project in the Wellawaya area that was housing and feeding 108 children from the poorest families whose life had been disrupted due to lack of rains.  We also ran a medical camp at this project and treated over 600 people.  On a request made, PHCT donated medicines for other medical camps being run in draught stricken areas.

Cattle Project

From April 2001 to the end of July 2001, the PHCT was involved in caring for 10  head of cattle who were held as wards of the court at Moratuwa Police station.

These cattle was transferred to a slaughter house and a police raid conducted on the slaughter house revealed that that the cattle were stolen property and illegally brought for slaughter.

We had been advised that the cattle had no water and food. Our Trust fed and watered these animals daily for 9 months.

Finally through representations made to the court the cattle were released to the Commissioner General of Prisons to be held in safe custody till a decision on the cattle was handed down by the courts.

PHCT totally funded the cost of feeding, watering and caring for these animals and relocating them to their new place of residence which had plenty of water and grass. 

International Activities:

A one-day workshop was held entitled “Healthy Living for the New Millennium” was held in Perth Australia in April 2000. This Workshop also featured an exhibition, food preparation and humane education for children, youth and adults based on the teachings of Bhagavan Sri  Sathya Sai Baba.

Also in April 2000 a two day Workshop was sponsored by the Sri Sathya Sai Organization in Singapore and here too the youth, children and elders were addressed on the need to become vegetarian. The focus of the Workshop was the need to take this first step to enable man to lead a life of peace and righteousness. The Workshop was called Inner Peace, Spirituality  and Vegetarianism.

In May 2000 (19th,20th 21st, 22nd) an exhibition was held at the Sri Sathya Sai Ashram in Bangalore. The  exhibition displayed 48 posters and the distribution of 4000 copies of a book entitled PEACE IN THE WORLD those who viewed the exhibition.  The exhibition evoked much interest as it stressed  the cruelty involved in bringing flesh to the table for human consumption and the nutritional benefits of a vegetarian diet.