The Barefoot Foundation
Supporting the power of Education.
ABOUT
It is our pleasure to expand our love for education out to the local community so that others may benefit from the gift of education, just as our students do. Our neighbours, Nethsarana Childrens school for special needs, specialises in educating deaf and blind children. This foundation is dedicated to sponsoring specific individuals in attending school, removing barriers and associated costs for families, to ensure their children receive an education. This fund will also aid in providing learning materials & making sure classrooms and teachers are well equipped. The Nethsarana School is on the South coast of Sri Lanka, near Ahangama. They are our neighbours, just 50m down the road from where our co founders, Jess & Adam live all year round.
Donations & Sponsorships
January 27th 2025
February 15th 2025
March 15th 2025
Our sponsorship journey begins with Anuththara, a 16 year old local girl with osteoporosis & partial blindness. A % of Barefoot tuition fees are going to sponsor Anuththara to return to school for the year by paying for her transportation fees and school shoes.
Scheduled donation to provide school with 36 chairs, 36 whiteboard markers & 50 tea cups for the classrooms.
Scheduled repairs to mend the entrance gate of the school and create waste disposal unit.
Meet Anuththara
She unfortunately has missed out on school for over year now due to her partial blindness and osteopetrosis causing excessively high transportation costs that her family could not afford.
We @barefootyogaschool have now created a fund to support these transportation costs by hiring a private driver to pick her up everyday. She expressed to us her her love for school and her dream to become a teacher one day.
Not only will her dream, and family be supported through this program but also the lovely tuk tuk drivers family (Briyantha) by providing him a salary to do the pick up and drop offs.
We are incredibly happy to have Anaththara as the first individual supported by this program and hope to make a difference here in Sri Lanka
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Pictures here: (from left) School principle, Adam, Briyantha, Tuk Tuk driver, Jess, Mother, (Middle) Auththara.
How does it work?
We have decided that for of every student of Barefoot Yoga School, we will donate 20,000 Sri Lankan rupees towards the Foundation. This will help fund children, just like Anuththara receive an Education, either through direct sponsorship, or by supporting the schools needs and provisions.
The majority of funds will be allocated to bringing disadvantaged children back to school. Although education is provided free by the Sri Lankan government to all children, there are many associated costs which can prevent some children from enrolling or staying in school.
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We have chosen to work with our local school, Nethsarana - for special needs children.
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For transparency, you can see a timeline of completed and scheduled donations. The school are also keeping a logbook for attendance and receipts, allowing us to visit any time to stay in the loop. If you would like to stay up to date, join our email list!
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