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Welcome to the Home Page of St. John's Orphanage of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. We are situated on the east coast of Sri Lanka. For twenty years there was a civil war going on as the Tamil militants are seeking independence from Sri Lanka and the government is opposing this move and discriminating against people of Tamil descent. In this war there are many people who are killed. There has been "ethnic cleansing" in many areas, also in Batticaloa. Our children have suffered from this situation and many have lost their parents as a result of this. Click here to read some of their stories with their pictures. |
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Eastern Province, we were surprised by a terrible flood, which was the
result of a tremor off the coast of Indonesia. Most villages located close
to the beach were completely wiped away. Also some of our facilities were
severely damaged. One orphanage was completely wiped away. The children
were in church and this is one of three buildings that remained standing.
Many of the people outside the church died. Among them the wife of the
pastor and their baby. In our Grace Care Center in Trincomalee, one of
the men had the children get into the bus, and they drove off before the
wave hit. Please read more on that in our Tsunami
report (click here)
We have now six orphanages. We have many projects, some on the government controlled side and some on the Tamil Tigers controlled side. Rev. Jeyanesan is in charge of them all on both sides. Please pray for him as he is often in life-threatening situations. |
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It was Easter 1999 when a man by the name of Joseph Vos visited us. Click here to read his travel report. Our life has not been the same since, as he took it upon himself to help us. We have been blessed in many ways by what he has done, but he cannot do it alone. He needs your help and that is why this web page came into being. We want to let you know about what is happening. We want to ask you to help us. When we do not have enough money, we cannot take in more children. This is very sad as these children will have to find help in the street, be sold into sex slavery or other work. We also are caring for children of widows and the widows themselves. We have two vocational training centers. There are other projects with which you can help us. Click here to read about other projects. |  |
| Since Easter 1999 there are many things
that have happened. You can read about it in these pages:
History of St. John's Orphanages Joseph's Travel Report Easter 1999 Pamphlet about the orphanages from May 1999 Summer 1999 update Artikel van het Reformatorisch Dagblad over Rev. Jeyanesan van 13 april 2001 (Dutch) Article from the Dutch Reformatorisch Daily about Rev. Jeyanesan of 13th of April 2001 (translated to English) Joseph's Travel Report Easter 2000 Report on the Tsunami disaster from Christmas 2004 |
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