Community Concerns offers a variety of different programs that allow us to use our diverse gifts from God to help the community. The supportive and loving environment allows for the freedom to help others in any way possible. The need to help can be overwhelming but that makes the successes even more rewarding.
Founded in 2009, Salvage was created to simply help sustain programs desperately in need of funding. Initially this included an HIV drop-in center (the only one of its kind in Sri Lanka) and a community gym that empowered young men to stay drug-free and protect the women and children in the areas. Through the years Salvage has supported a women’s shelter, a school for underprivileged children, and a life guarding program to name a few. Over the last decade Salvage has become so much more, offering employment to women in need.
In 2014 the leaders of every major religious faith in the world made a global pledge, to end human trafficking by 2020. Modern day slavery in the forms of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, organ trafficking, illegal adoption, child soldiers, and the like had become a $150 Billion industry violating the fundamental human rights of 35.8 million people and declared a disgrace to God and a dishonor to humankind by all major spiritual faiths in the world.