Our Partners

Australian Medical Aid Foundation began operating in 2001, raising funds for medical and health projects in the North and East of Sri Lanka. We deliver our medical projects primarily through partners, Rotary Club International, Sivan Arul Illam and Kilinochi Education Development Trust (KEDT). KEDT is based in the northern Sri Lanka. We also deliver local activities in partnership with Government authorities, local community groups and service providers.

Rotary Club of The Hills - Kellyville Inc

Rotary Club of The Hills – Kellyville Inc in Rotary International District 9685 is part of Rotary International. The club with its 16 members carries out service projects locally, nationally and Globally through their fundraising activities, grants from state and federal governments along with The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.

More Information: Rtn. John Collignon
E: john.collignon@rheem.com.au

Kilinochi Education Development Trust (KEDT)

KEDT is a NGO in the Northern province of Sri Lanka, that carry out Educational, Medical and humanitarian projects in the Vanni region. It is registered trust in Sri Lanka and carried out many projects so far. With AMAF, KEDT runs school dental project in the Mullaithevu, Kilinochi and Muthur districts of Sri Lanka. AMAF often carried out several other medical projects and emergency projects during outbreak of dengue and COVID 19. KEDT is one of the most trusted partner and root organisation in the Vanni region of Sri Lanka.

Sivan Arul Illam

Sivan Arul Illam (SAI) Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation registered in Australia and the United Kingdom to improve the lives of underprivileged children and adults in north-East and Upcountry Sri Lanka.

SAI implements many projects in the North and East of Sri Lanka. SAI carried out several projects, which were funded by AMAF, such as sponsorship program for paraplegics and quadriplegics, Dry ration program during the COVID 19 outbreak in Sri Lanka.

NSW HEALTH

AMAF carried out NSW Health’s Breast cancer, cervical cancer awareness programs in Sydney as Pink Saree project. AMAF was in close contact with NSW health to provide official information to our community during the COVID 19 Outbreak.

Northern Provincial Council (NPC)

More than 50% of AMAF’s projects are implemented in the public hospital Northern Province of Sri Lanka. In order to run and implement the projects, AMAF work closely with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health of NPC. The Psychosocial project was very successful project which established

‘Mahilaham’ centres (happy place) in 25 schools in the Northern Province with the partnership of the ministry of Education of the NPC. AMAF supplied 50 android tablets to perform data collection of the population in the war torn, Vanni region and then all over the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

Statement on Partners

AMAF is committed to working with other organisations and individuals in mutually respective ways.

AMAF identifies potential partners based on the specific health needs of the people of North and East of Sri Lanka via personal member contacts, Tamil diaspora referrals, and monitoring of health programs and issues in Sri Lanka. AMAF assesses and selects partners based on shared interests and alignment with AMAF vision, equity, mutual respect, accountability and transparency, impacting government regulations, capacity to deliver as well as capacity to safeguard vulnerable groups from exploitation. These assessments are performed by AMAF staff who are in regular contact with potential partners.

AMAF and its partners have regular dialogue when coming together to plan and implement healthcare projects in North East Sri Lanka. AMAF members are identified to take responsibility on behalf of AMAF. These members need to establish steady working partnerships. AMAF will initially work with partners to jointly determine what the intended outcomes of the collaboration are and how the collaboration will work in practice.

Where formal partnerships are entered into, then AMAF will strive to ensure that any agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) cover basic expectations such as the shared goals; the defined contribution of each party; responsibilities of each side; contributions of each side covering both financial and non-financial; mutual reporting and sharing of information including incident reporting ; commitment to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

AMAF is committed to working with partners to improve their processes and capacity as part of project delivery as well as outside specific projects. This is done by AMAF staff visiting Sri Lanka on a regular basis to provide training, mentoring, guidance, policy development and recommendations on improvements. It is also done by constant communication with partner staff during project implementation.

AMAF will periodically review the effectiveness of partnerships, preferably done jointly with the partner, to determine if pre-agreed outcomes have been met on a timely basis.