We would like to congratulate Dr. Lahiru Kodithuwakku for winning the Gold Medal at the Humanitarian MBA at the Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship for his project with Resilience. He has been a pioneer in community empowerment through education and has contributed as a resource person for many capacity-building programs Read more…
Community resilience can be defined as the ability of a community to ‘bounce back’ and recover using its own resources. It also means the ability of groups or communities to cope with external shocks and stresses because of social, environmental, and political change. To discuss the application of the concept Read more…
The Resilience Foundation launched the Little Food Cabinet Movement inspired by the Little Free Pantry in the USA. Little Food Cabinet Movement is a grassroots, crowdsourced solution to cater to immediate and local needs. The Little Food Cabinet Movement helps feed and nourish the needy members of the community while Read more…
The Care2Share Trust, New Zealand supported the distribution of food baskets to 150 needy families during the financial crisis through the Resilience Foundation. Each family received a food basket worth SLR 7000. The Volunteers for Resilience (V4R) identified these needy families in their communities distributed across the island. The volunteers Read more…
My Dream My Sri Lanka is a crowdsourcing platform for citizens to dream, share, plan, and act for a better Sri Lanka. It is a volunteer-based, not-for-profit, non-partisan initiative based on citizen engagement and leadership aimed at creating a better Sri Lanka through systems change. My Dream My Sri Lanka is open Read more…
Siyatha TV interviewed Dimantha Jayasinghe from Resilience on the CORRECT-19 Project, aimed at promoting pandemic resilience through faith-leader engagement.
The Asia Foundation offred a Changemaker development Fund Grant to Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience to Launch the International Journal of Health-Systems Resilience. He was an Asia Foundation Development Fellow from the 2016 cohort. Dr. Wijesekara received a similar grant in 2020 to launch the International Journal of Community-Resilience.
The Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies welcomed Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience as a Guest Speaker to speak on his work on Transforming Violent Religious Extremism through faith-leader engagement. He met with Security Professionals from the Asia Pacific Region who were participating in the Comprehensive Security Management course.
Dr. Sudipta Roy from the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs of Georgetown University of Washington DC, USA interviewed Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience on the European Union (EU) funded project, Awareness with Human Actions (AHA!), for the initiative titled as “Community Resilience through Religious Engagement for Community Read more…