Noble Friends Rehabilitation Centre is designed and built by Vimukthi Foundation, a non-profit, state-registered, social-services charity organisation affiliated with Jethavanarama Buddhist Monastery.
This site is approximately seven kilometres from Maha Ingiriya Junction, Ingiriya of the Kalutara district in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. In its initial implementation, the centre is able to accommodate 40 male clients, with subsequent phases planned to uplift capacity to 100. Over the past few years, we have developed a comprehensive rehabilitation programme which is fundamentally based in Theravadin Buddhist teachings and implemented through a medium comprising modern methods. Trials with several drug dependents have achieved outstanding success. We see an opportunity and more acutely, a timely necessity to expand this programme to extend its benefits to the people.
The Noble Friends Rehabilitation Centre introduces a revolutionary and the most sustainable counselling methodology in history to address this critical national issue.
We aim to enable our youth whose academic and vocational development has been impaired by drug-dependence, to complete their education, acquire vocational skills and return to the job market to engage in gainful employment and contribute productively to the national economy.
In addition, the centre will also provide family members of the rehabilitants comprehensive support to recover from the debilitating emotional and social impact of drug use.
