From 2011 to 2016, LSF provided assistance to Centre for Disadvantaged Women at Dummalasooriya, Sri Lanka, with the assistance of Peninsula Motor Group, Bankstown. The centre was established in February 1997 and provides social services for women who have suffered gender-based abuse. It has two Homes: one for single mothers and pregnant women; the other for girls or women who have suffered abuse, but not pregnant. About 15 girls and women are resident at the Centre at any given time, and about 50 leave every year gaining employment and acceptance to families.
In September 2010, LSF, with financial assistance of Peninsula Motor Group of Bankstown and ALCOA (Australia), with guidance from the Sri Lankan Army, provided 50 bicycles to the resettled families in Ampakamam village, Mulathivu District. In an area with no public transport, children having to walk long distances to school, a bicycle was a valuable asset.
Providing artificial limbs for 20 needy persons through the Centre for Handicapped at Kundasale, www.cfhsrilanka.org enabling the recipients to be mobile and self-dependent, thereby relieving their relatives of the additional burden of care taking.
In 2010, LSF, with the Tzu Chi Foundation of Australia, participated in 4 bush regeneration and environment protection activities organized by local Councils, the latest being at Lane Cove river near Sugarloaf Hill, East Ryde, where about 20 LSF volunteers participated.
In 2008, LSF assisted a handicapped police officer to conduct IT workshops for disabled servicemen, by providing computers, computer table and chairs. The objective was to assist disabled serviceman to attain skills in IT to seek employment conducive with their physical condition.
In 2011, LSF donated 10 water pumps for newly resettled families in Ramanathanpuram, Mulathivu with the assistance of Peninsula Motor Group, Bankstown. These families had been displaced by years of conflict which ended in 2009. The water pumps were put to good use with the families reaping the fruits of their labour.
In 2012, 15 wheel chairs and 55 walking aides were provided to the Saviya Development Foundation (SDF) in Matara. This consignment of equipment was in addition to other assistance provided by LSF to SDF’s vocational training centre.
Between 2007 and 2009, LSF provided financial assistance to 78 households in the Southern, Uva, and North Central Provinces in Sri Lanka to install 40 Watt (standalone) Solar Electricity Systems. LSF provided the 15%down payment (approximately A$100) required to commence installation for each of the houses. The key sponsors of this program were: Combined Universities Cultural Night Committee 2006; Hunters Hill Rotary Club; and, Sydney Boys High School. The program was terminated due to the impact of the financial crisis on Financing Companies that provided the balance 85% funds to households as credit facilities.