Simply Women is a women’s organization empowered by Ms. Manoji Wadugodapitiya in the year 2015 to upgrade the less privileged living standard of women in Sri Lanka by training women in hand work such as sewing, Patchwork, Embroidery, Beauty culture, costume jewelry, slipper making, and many more that could be trained to generate an additional income for the low-income families.
As the chairperson of Hydro Power (pvt) Ltd and Arusalana Eco Lodge Hotel, a well-renowned name in the business arena has taken this as a responsibility of hers to upgrade the living standard of less privileged women in Sri Lanka.
She believes every single person has a born talent and a destiny in life and most of our lives revolve around these two facts in life.
She has employed Teachers who are well-known in the trade of the Handwork industry. She started classes in the Kaduwela vicinity which was known to women in need as most of the women were housewives and had to depend on others for their daily living and their personal expenses.
However, Simply Women with more demand to train less privileged women has expanded the training classes to most parts of the Island such as Kaduwela, Malabe, Athurugiriya, Kolonnawa, Maharagama, Dehiwala, Awissawella, and many parts of Sri Lanka, as at date has trained more than 200,000 women in various trades.
She has a separate class for less privileged special needs children and women and she has also employed some to her women’s organization, Ms. Manoji Wadugodapitiya not only trains these women but also gives them an additional helping hand by way of financial support to buy the equipment need to start their own business and has gone a further mile to even get orders from renown companies We are very proud to say that women trained by Simply Women has started their self-employment which earns them a substantial income.
- Training inmates at Welikada prison
- Classes Conducted for Recovering cancer patients at Indira Cancer Trust Fund
- Building houses in Anuradhapura for handicapped families.
- Building a temple in Rikilagaskada, Kandy. Satipattana Temple
- Building a temple in Bodhimalu Temple in Anuradhapura
- Meth Sarana Elders Home in Colombo 14 Solely run by Simply Women
- Building a Perlative Care Room in Indira Cancer Trust Fund Hospital
- Sponsoring 10 Children per month for healthcare
- Giving groceries to 50 families per month
- Distributed more than 2000 industrial sewing machines.
- Distributed healthcare uniforms to Sri Jayawardena Pura Hospital (ENT Department) during Covid 19
