IODR's Community Welfare and Education Centre
has been designed and built with local labour
and local materials from sustainably managed
sources and sympathetic to the local environment.
There
are a number of key outputs from the work of
IODR in Weligama and elsewhere in the Indian
Ocean region. The solar energy and waste systems
provide an opportunity for reducing pollution
and other environmental harm and further the
opportunity for donors to offset their carbon
footprints caused by environmentally negative
operations elsewhere in the world with a counterbalancing
positive environmental impact.
Carbon
emissions can be offset by the solar power and
other systems which IODR are installing in the
Indian Ocean region in orphanages, schools and
community buildings, producing clean energy
where polluting wasteful and more environmentally
harmful processes might otherwise be used.
The
IODR Community Welfare Education Centre in Sri
Lanka is a community focused project allowing
businesses and individuals to engage in building
capacity in a community ravaged by the short,
medium and long term damage resultant from the
2004 Tsunami. They can engage in offsetting
carbon emissions by contributing to IODR's work,
installing clean energy heating and water systems
and replacing environmentally harmful systems
which utilise fossil and other fuels. IODR are
aiming to meet all the criteria to achieve the
Gold Standard for carbon credits.
Providing
an opportunity for donations to a range of good
causes, from educational, housing, medical and
other needs and with opportunities to engage
in a wide variety of ways, including volunteering
and carbon offsets, the IODR, together with
medical resource, can assist with diverse corporate
social responsibility schemes. To get involved
please contact info@iodr.co.uk