The Green Team

Entrance to Sarvoyada Women's Centre

The workshop was held at the Sarvodaya Women's Centre in Moratuwa,  a quiet suburb of Colombo. The Sarvoyada Movement is a Buddhist organization providing many social and educational services all over the country  The Women's Centre is an old colonial building that has retained some of the delicate architectural details of its Portuguese past.                                                                                  

 

The students came from all over the city; for some of them the commute was a couple of hours.  But come they did!

Here are their artist portraits:

RISHA  photo: Sooriyan

SOORIYAN  photo:  Risha

PRASAD  photo:  Nadeesha

NADEESHA  photo:  Prasad

ASHMI  photo:  Imala

IMALA  photo:  Ayesh

GAYANI  photo:  Dhanushka

DHANUSHKA  photo:  Gayani

AYESH  photo: Januka

JANUKA  photo: Ashmi

In their early twenties, 6 of them had travelled with Kanchana down one of Sri Lanka's principal rivers documenting increasing levels of pollution as the water course neared cities.  Risha and Sooriyan are Tamils, Nadeesha is a film maker, and Prasad is studying journalism.

Kanchana, our fearless leader, with her sons Busara and Nipu. 6:30 am, heading off to school