The TEA Project has started a month of SAFE Training with professionals from the Sri Lankan education and Charity sectors. SAFE provides skills for adults to recognise, deal effectively and prevent abuse of children.
All the training is being presented in 3 languages (Sinhala, Tamil & English) & led by Dee, an experienced Consultant Social Worker volunTEAring with the project from the UK. Dee is supported by a TEAm of local volunTEArs & project staff to help her facilitate and translate.

This week the project was further strengthened with the arrival of Nicola, a senior schools inspector from the UK. Nicola provided an additional 2 day teacher training programme that ran alongside SAFE. The week culminated at a partner school on the West coast before the TEAm headed back to Kandy.
Next week we journey from Kandy to the capital, Colombo, before travelling into the highland tea plantations. Here SAFE will be complimented by adding the project's leadership programmes 'LIFE' and 'Training the Trainers' to the schedule.
In all The TEA Project will visit 10 locations in the Central, East and Western provinces.
This programme was made possible because of public support to The TEA Project's SAFE-TEA FIRST Appeal.
Thank you to those people who donated.
Our hope is to extend SAFE Training throughout 2017.
Follow the link to get involved & support SAFE: