“The place where abuse ends and healing begins”
Lama Piyasa is a place that provides holistic care for children who have experienced violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect. It includes an inward facility for psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration, as well as video evidence recording unit for documenting evidence.
Lama Piyasa was conceived as part of the process of Creating Safe Communities for Children, an initiative of the Child Protection Committee (CPC) of the Sri Lanka College of
Paediatricians (SLCP). This project, initiated in 2011, was partnered by PLAN Sri Lanka in this endeavour.
The Child Protection Committee, of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians in 2020 with the Ministry of Health and The Ministry of Women and Child Affairs has made recommendation to establish 8 Lama Piyasa facilities in 8 other health institutions in the country in order to cover all 9 Provinces. The Facilities will be headed by a Consultant Paediatrician / Consultant Community Paediatrician.
At the meeting held at Lama Piyasa at Teaching Hospital Ragama on the 16th September 2020 with the State Minister of Women and Child Affairs, it was decided to initiate this project in Galle attached to the Teaching Hospital Karapitiya. We then planned the second LP facility at the National Hospital in Galle. The director of NHG under the guidance of Ministry of health kindly gave a land. However we could not find funds to construct the facility. Then only we met Mr Roshan Mahanama. He vowed that he would help us in our endeavours. In addition, he accepted our invitation to be the Hon. Brand Ambassador for our project CSCC.
After ten long years of establishing First Lamapiyasa at Ragama, the second LP will be inaugurated on 26th August 2025. The cost of the first LP in Ragama was approximately 25 million rupees, and today, the facility in NHG costs 120 million rupees, despite the Sri Lanka Army providing its services for construction free of charge. We are extremely grateful to the Roshan Mahanama Trust, the Sri Lanka Army, and the key donors, Mr Cedric Antony and Mr Roshan Wijerama, for making this a reality.
This facility will serve the children who come from muddied circumstances to bloom into beautiful adults like the lotus flower with no mud sticking to them, which is what we depict in the logo of LP.
