NETWORK HEAVEN
At Network Heaven our aim is to help the poor. We believe in taking action with urgency in order to raise public awareness about some of the most pressing issues facing today’s society. We raise funds and promote initiatives to serve the people who are in need the most. Please join us by supporting our efforts to make a measurable difference in the lives of others.
Some of the things we do include:
- Supporting “local partners”, helping them provide the assistance and make a difference to an individual child or family
- Poverty relief and educational activities for disadvantaged children by providing help with new school stationary
- Empowering individuals to become valuable members of their communities and country by providing necessary items.
Here at Network Heaven, we see the value in everyone. We want to be a catalyst for positive change, and since our beginnings in 2000, we’ve been driving by the same ideas since we initially founded our Non-Profit Organisation: support, empowerment, and progress.
The work of Network Heaven commenced in 2001 with the Bethlehem Creche Project. Sister Florella, a Carmelite nun working in the slum areas of Colombo, Sri Lanka, feeds children 0 to 5 years old daily whilst their mum’s go to work. Their work is going from house to house as domestics, sweeping the streets and public areas and working on building sites etc.
In 2001, we were requested to send a gift pack for each child which included a new set of clothes, underwear, and a few basics such as toiletry items, colouring pages, some stationery and a lolly bag. This work has now expanded over 19 years working with various local partners spread across Sri Lanka helping mainly children and women living in poverty.
The aim is to send a Christmas Gift Pack of new items as the cycle of poverty will only afford them second hand scraps for the rest of their lives. We are aiming to help break this poverty cycle through education and assisting the children commence the school year with some basics. Where possible we support students through university and school.
In 2018, we sent almost 4,500 gifts to children from former war zones, children in plantations, children of prisoners, and orphaned children due to war and natural disasters. The children are from all ethnic backgrounds and religions. Poverty is sadly common to all of these children and their mums struggle to put food on the table let alone purchase school uniforms and books and stationary.
