Join VOV Refugee Rights

VOV vision is to create a place where all asylum seekers and migrants can enjoy their fundamental rights and services and live in a harmony with the host community. VOV strives for creating a safe place and ensuring well-being for asylum seekers and refugees.

VOV Mission

• Provide access to fundamental rights and services.
• Provide health, psycho-social and legal counselling.
• Ensure protection.
• Provide assistance (shelter, financial support, etc.) for the most vulnerable cases by mobilizing various resources.
• Organize activities strengthening social harmony and public peace and aiming to raise public awareness,
• Contribute to academic studies regarding the field of refugee and law.
• Contribute to law-making procedures.
• Inform civil society organizations and public institutions about statistical data, needs analysis and migration tendency.
• Mobilize local and public resources for the benefit of asylum seekers and migrants.

CORE VALUES

• Equality: VOV is an advocator of equal rights and opportunities for all people.
• Impartiality: VOV provides services to asylum seekers and migrants without any discrimination on the basis of language, religion, sex, race, sexual orientation and political ideology.
• Neutrality: VOV does not discriminate against people on the basis of language, religion, sex, race, sexual orientation and political ideology.
• Integrity: VOV is honest and transparent in its collective and individual works considering open communication.
• Trustworthiness: VOV attaches great importance to mutual respect and assures reliance among the family including its staff, volunteers, asylum seekers, migrants and its partners.
• Commitment: VOV is committed to support asylum seekers and migrants in every aspect.
• Accountability: VOV accepts the responsibility of all its collective and individual works

DONATION
You can support the activities which are being carried out by VOV. The donation that you will make will be directly and indirectly used for asylum seekers and refugees throughout Srilanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Italy and globe. Disabled people, alone women and alone parents, individuals, unaccompanied and separated children, elder people, people with chronic diseases, victims of sexual and gender-related violence and victims of non-discriminating violence as sensitive groups are of top priority with regard to transferring the donation to the refugees and asylum seekers.

In which fields you can make donation?

• Financial aid: Financial aid can be done once by considering the sensitivity situation including the persons in the direction of incoming requests. Besides the possible urgent needs are covered within this field.
• Food-aid packet / shopping card aid: Food packets or shopping cards are given to the families and individuals being in the sensitive situation to enable them to meet their needs such as food, hygiene, personal care. Alcohol and cigarette cannot be bought with the given cards.
• Toys and stationery materials for children: Such supports as providing toys and stationery packet are conducted for preschool and school children. By this way, it is aimed to support the activities such as playing games having important role in children development and as painting developing their manual dexterity.
• Health services and medication aid: It is used for meeting the needs such as hospital, medication, glasses, prosthesis, and wheel chair expenses of the refugees and asylum seekers who cannot afford these in case of chronic and long-term diseases.
• Support for adaptation activities carried out by the VOV: It is used for organizing activities, briefings and seminars such as, Women Day, Children Festival, Refugee Day aiming for social inclusion for refugees and asylum seekers and to raise social awareness.