About Noble Friends

Noble Friends Rehabilitation Centre is designed and built by the Vimukthi Foundation, a non-profit, state-registered social services charity organisation affiliated with Jethavanarama Buddhist Monastery.

The centre is located approximately seven kilometres from Maha Ingiriya Junction, Ingiriya, in the Kalutara District of the Western Province of Sri Lanka. In its initial phase, the centre can accommodate 40 male clients, with subsequent phases planned to increase capacity to 100.

Over the past few years, we have developed a comprehensive rehabilitation programme fundamentally based on Theravadin Buddhist teachings and implemented through modern methods. Trials with several drug-dependent individuals have achieved outstanding success. We see both an opportunity and, more acutely, a timely necessity to expand this programme in order to extend its benefits to the wider community.