My father colleague works in the Varod centre, an orphanage for disable, mutilated and physically war affected people. He invited us over there to see how this centre works and to establish a cooperation between our NGO and the centre. Before visiting the centre, I expected the worst. The orphanage in Mutur is a very sad place, so I assumed that the Vavuniya centre, gathering people with different kind of disabilities, was more upsetting.
However once there I had a pleasant surprise! The centre is very well organized. It is divided in the physically disable part, mentally disable boys area and female disable side.
Also the staff quarters are little cute houses and compared to the centre in Mutur it looked like a guest house.
The centre is directed by Catholic priests but staff is mixed as the people that are taken care.
The kids are looked after by strong and lovely staff.
They have different kind of activities such as music, dancing, sports, theatre and also gardening.
What I expected to find was a sad environment but kids are happy considered the troubles they have been through. The diaspora provides the main funds and the money are well managed by the Director of the centre. The stories of these people are heartbreaking: mentally disable women raped during the war and now with kids fruit of violences, mentally disturbed kids left alone in the refugees camps or mutilated people. However, now they have the chance to live a new, better life and a lot and huge improvements have been done especially thanks to the hard work of the staff.
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| Boys disable area |
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| Female area |
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| Female area |
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| Minori, my colleague |
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| Mutilated area |
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| Minori and a nun, part of the staff |
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| Physically disable area and staff quarters. |
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| Staff Quarter...yeah food wrapped in newspaper |
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