Lunugamvehera

Deep in the South of Sri Lanka, in a heat-ridden, poverty-stricken, drought-threatened region of the Island, where much of the population struggles to scrape a scant living by the precarious means of fishing or farming, lies Lunugamvehera, a small town of citizens.

The First Montessori House of Children

The establishing of the first Bridge2Peace Montessori House of Children in 2007 was the catalyst for change that permeated the whole community. In a social fabric saturated by a single language and religion and dominated by a mono-culture, the introduction of tri-lingual, multi-cultural education, and the establishing a Peace curriculum in the

heat of the raging civil war, sent shock-waves reverberating through the landscape. Initial aggressive resistance has transformed into whole-hearted support and a high demand for the places in the programme each year.