With our program, we teach mothers how to care for their child and escape poverty.

In our program, babies without a future become happy, healthy toddlers and desperate teen moms become caring educators with a job and future.

We call this program “Father’s heart” (පියාගේ හදවත in Sinhala, தந்தையின் இதயம் in Tamil) and it’s possible thanks to your support.

Why?

Babies are abandoned every day, in the streets, near hospitals, orphanages and even in garbage piles.

Shame and poverty force young woman to choose between living in the streets with their baby, committing suicide and just leaving their newborn baby so they are welcomed back in their family as the cause of shame, a newborn child, is gone.

How do we help?

We offer a tailor made plan to every mother. In a safe environment we teach her how to take care of herself and her baby. She’ll learn how to read, write, do math, English and whatever she needs to get a job.

With volunteers, we put in all our effort to ensure that mothers and children in our program, escape from poverty so they don’t need us anymore and children are actually better off!

What can you do?

Your support is important, preferably every month so we appreciate every gift and emphasize that we’re not asking you to do more than you can. Your monthly donation of €5, is just as precious in shaping the future for children, as someones €500 donation!

Help us help!

The Yworks foundation is an ANBI and get’s the job done with unpaid board members, advisors and supporters. Your donation can be tax deductible (in the Netherlands) and not used to pay board members and/or management.

We’re very grateful for your support!

Sri Lanka, you may know it from the tea (Ceylon) or herbs they grow and beautiful holiday photo’s.

There is another side, the Sri Lanka of the orphanages filled with children that actually have two living parents.

Young girls are cast out because they’re pregnant out of wedlock and that’s something to be ashamed of there.

Abortion, if you consider that an option, is illegal and young girls, children, live in the streets and leave their newborn by the side of the road. Some babies are born in orphanages.

Because poverty is a big problem, most of these girls aren’t educated. Without help, taking care of their child means a life on the streets, in even more poverty.

Touched by this poverty and brokenness we asked ourselves: ‘What can we do?’ and the answer to that question is a program in which we team up with the local population to offer these pregnant girls, shelter and education.

Together we can offer young people a better future so they’re not better of just for now but their escape from poverty is lasting.