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Empowering Youth. Building Peace. Creating Sustainable Communities.

Centre for Peacebuilding and Youth Empowerment works alongside communities in Sri Lanka to advance education, innovation, entrepreneurship and peacebuilding — helping local people design lasting solutions to their own challenges.

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Every child deserves this chance

Who We Are

Building Stronger Communities Through Empowerment

Centre for Peacebuilding and Youth Empowerment is a non-profit organization striving to build an inclusive and socially cohesive society, a transformational education system, and innovative social enterprises through challenge-based learning.

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Our Moments

Our Moments

CPYE team and children gathered together in the community
A child taking part in an IT training session
Children at the IT training room launch
A computer lab prepared for students
Children and mentors in a life-skills activity

What We Do

Local Answers to Local Challenges

A quarter of a century of civil conflict in Sri Lanka had a huge influence on the country's socio-economic and environmental conditions. International aid was helpful, but imported answers were unable to fix core local problems on a long-term basis.

Locally Rooted

We were determined to make it possible for local people to tackle their own challenges, rather than depend on imported solutions.

Long-Term Thinking

We focus on durable, homegrown answers to socio-economic and environmental conditions — not short-term fixes.

People-Centred

Communities affected by conflict are the starting point of every programme we design and deliver.

Our Projects

Community Projects

Children opening the IT training room together at the Future in Their Hands launch IT Education

Future in Their Hands

Helping vulnerable children build practical IT skills for a brighter future.

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Children taking part in a life-skills craft activity Community

Our Resettlement Project

Supporting children and families through education, life skills and community support.

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Kindergarten children gathered together for English Through Play Language

English Through Play

Helping Kindergarten children build basic English skills through play and creative activities.

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