The Galway Sri Lanka Project has launched a range of Christmas cards to raise funds for its ongoing work in areas of Sri Lanka devastated by the Christmas 2004 tsunami.
The cards feature images donated and designed by local artists and photographers including Mike Shaughnessy, Sophie Coyle, Daragh Muldowney, and Sasha Bosbeer. A pack of eight cards costs €10 and all proceeds will go directly to running vocational training centres in Sri Lanka. People can also avail of 50 cards featuring their favourite images for €60.
The cards are blank inside and feature information on the Galway Sri Lanka Project on the reverse.
The Galway Sri Lanka Project is a voluntary initiative which responded to the 2004 tsunami by providing humanitarian relief for three towns in Sri Lanka, permanent houses for more than 250 families, five preschools, and two community training centres. This work was greatly supported by the people of Galway and the Irish Red Cross Society.
Over the next five years the project will work to support two community training centres in Sri Lanka that offer vocational training courses that directly address problems such as unemployment, extreme poverty and economic disadvantage, violence between communities and within families, and the needs of vulnerable children. Administration costs are kept at less than five per cent. All proceeds from the sale of this card will go directly to the operation of the community centres.
For further details or to order cards contact Ari on (086 ) 3608322 or Noel on (087 ) 2884082, or e-mail [email protected]
