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Through our partnership with the Steppes Fund for Female Guides, Teardrop was able to support Prathini Samaradiwakara in completing a six-month guide training programme, which included a four-day intensive course at Fort Bazaar. The training focused on essential guiding skills such as English language development, presentation techniques, and mock tour practice. Today, Prathini leads walking tours of Galle Fort for guests staying at Fort Bazaar. She also hosts private experiences for travellers journeying with Teardrop Journeys at Kumu Beach and Wallawwa. The initiative reflects a wider goal: empowering women to participate in Sri Lanka’s tourism workforce.
In Sri Lanka, 15 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every day, but early detection has been proven to increase survival rates by over 90%. To commemorate International Women’s Day 2026, Fort Bazaar was proud to support Taking Charge with Breast Health, an Indira Cancer Trust initiative to empower workplaces through breast cancer awareness. The 90-minute session equipped several women from our community with life-saving knowledge on prevention and early detection, including guided self-examination training.
Our home garden project began with a donation of fertiliser, Scotch Bonnet plants, and gardening tools to ladies living in the Upper Dunkeld Division in the hill country, to grow and harvest in their home gardens. Amid nurturing their greens, these women are growing a renewed sense of purpose, resilience, and hope, one crop at a time.
Sri Lankan-Swedish equestrian Mathilda Karlsson spent a day getting to know the ladies of WEE Care and donated netting, seedlings, fertiliser, and gardening tools to 8 ladies that we work with in the communities around Camellia Hills. The generous donations go towards an initiative that supports local women in underserved communities with the aim of creating a circular-based, women-led form of agriculture.
The Goatfell team recently concluded a workshop for 22 ladies residing in our community. The workshop demonstrated how to create four different types of candles (floral, spice, scented and tea light candles) which Teardrop is committed to buy back, as well as how to make chutneys and jams using common ingredients found in the vicinity, and how to bake a cake without the use of an oven.
We recently concluded a candle-making workshop at Wallawwa for a group of WEE CARE ladies in May 2023. The goal of the workshop was to give these women training on a skillset that they can use to work from their homes and generate an income. We also provided them with raw materials to get started and we have committed to buying a specific quantity of candles each month..
