TEMACE is a non-governmental organisation registered under the Parliamentary Act No. 28 of 1997. Its main focus is on marginalised community groups in Sri Lanka with an emphasis on child care and gender equity.

Projects Implemented:

1. Assisted deprived children in the villages bordering the North East Province, which is affected by the ethnic conflict.
2. Gender Equity Programs for marginalized communities in slum and shanty settlements.

• Women's empowerment programmes
• Training in non traditional skills

3. Entrepreneur development

• Women's clubs have been set up and a revolving loan scheme initiated to enable the members to have easy access to affordable credit to improve their enterprises

4. Water and Sanitation

• Women in the remote villages of the Dry Zone are burdened with the lack of water for domestic purposes, especially during the dry season. On an average a woman spends 2 to 4 hours a day in fetching water from pits dug in river beds.
• A programme was implemented to provide 7 villages facilities to obtain water, and 800 families with sanitary facilities.

5. Women workers on estates
   • Women estate workers who are mostly illiterate are unaware of the dangers they and their children are exposed to, due to the neglect of child care, nutrition and sanitation. Therefore, awareness programmes are being conducted on the estates.

Women and Child Prisoners:
EMACE is implementing a programme to improve the conditions of women inmates of prisons and of little children housed in the hospital wards of the prisons. Financial support for the project has been received from the American Women's Association. These children who are below five years of age, are in prison as their mothers are serving a term of imprisonment or have been remand.

Other Areas of Work:

• Women workers in the garment manufacturing sector
• Counselling of women who are sexually harassed
• Women's rights
• Rehabilitation of street children
• The disabled
• Widows and orphans
• Unmarried mothers
• Aged women
• Credit
• National integration among women

Contact:
15 Mihiri Place
Asiri Uyana
Moratuwa 10400
Tel. - 94-1-74-214844 , - 94-1-612837
Fax.- 94-1-610080
E-mail - emace@slt.lk 

Co-ordinator:
Dileepa Gunathilake