Poya (Full Moon) Day Feast

Sri Lanka, being a Buddist country, Poya Day is a special religious observance day for the Buddist. So since it is a holiday, we have a Poya Day Feast in the temple every month and over 200 devotees participate in the Pooja and the Full Lunch Prasadam. The Lunch consists of the same items that are served on The Sunday Feast.

Bhaktivedanta Children's Home - Gokulam

At Gokulam, there are 115 children. They eat three full meals daily. The meals are balanced and nutritious, consisting of rice, dhal, vegetables, fruits, yoghurt, and fresh milk. The meals are completely vegetarian, and the dairy products come from the protected cows kept on the premises. Our kitchen facilities are kept immaculately clean at all times and cooks follow strict hygienic and nutritional guidelines. sponsor a meal

Food For Life

Food for life is the world's largest Vegetarian food relief program. It was started by Srila Prabhupada (Founder of ISKCON) in 1974.

In Sri Lanka, we have been distributing free prasadam to the 'home for aged', 'leprosy home' etc since the time we started the temple in 1976.

This program was continuing from the temple on every Sundays and full moon days, where hundreds of poor and needy also come for the midday meals to the temple.

After the Tsunami on December 26th, 2004, we started distributing cooked meals to the affected people in the eastern coastal area, Trincomalee.

For them, we have distributed 1000s of plates of food. Seeing our effort in Sri Lanka, Food for life Global volunteers came here and the distribution expanded to Moratuwa, Galle, Matara, Pt. Pedro, Batticaloa (eastern Province) and Ampara Dst.

Volunteers came from all over the world such as from, USA, Poland, UK, Russia, Ireland, South Africa, Hungary etc and helped distribute food during the Tsunami time.

An estimated number of 250,000 plates of vegetarian food were distributed to the affected people.

This service is to continue as the midday meal program for the Tsunami affected school in Northern Province in Pt. Pedro.

Mid-day School Program

Since the 2004 Tsunami, We have been distributing midday meals for the school children in the Tsunami affected areas in the Northern Province in Sri Lanka namely Pt. Pedro.

Daily, over 1000 children in more than 3 schools were provided with lunch consisting of rice, dal and vegetables.

Since the sudden outbreak of violence in the north, that service has been halted for the moment due to transportation and security problems.