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NEWTON GUNASINGHE FOUNDATION
Ramadorai Watta,
Doragala Road,
Paradeka (Gampola)
The NEWTON GUNASINGHE FOUNDATION was established
in 1997 with the intention of capacitate the marginalized
plantation community mainly youth and women. At the same time,
it had focused to involve in action oriented studies and research
in relation to socio-economic, political and ethnic issues
of the plantation community and the country to promote harmony
and sustainability.
The institution was name after Prof. Newton Gunasinghe a sociologist
who rendered a part of his life to empower the plantation
community to self-reliance and to demand and defend their
rights. Apart from being a lecturer at the University of Colombo,
he was a plantation trade union leader and promoted an institution
for the studies on the workers and peasants named “Workers
and Peasants’ Institute”.
The Newton Gunasinghe Foundation is currently registered under
the company ordinance of Sri Lanka and consists of seven board
members and 25 general members.
The Newton Gunasinghe Foundation house the Plantation
Worker Museum in its premises which is promoted by Institute
of Social Development under the guidance of Prof. Sudarshan
Seneviratne, Head of Dept of Archeology, University of Peradeniya.
 
The Newton Gunasinghe Foundation consists
of facilities for residential training wh ich
can accommodate 30 residential and 60 non residential people
with full-fledged training hall, food, and residential facilities.
The organization rents the facility to who are willing to
conduct training. The Newton Gunasinghe Foundation is situated
in a serene natural environment surrounded by misty tea plantations
and natural ponds. The institution consists of a library which
has a number of materials on tea plantation worker community
and the tea industry. The environment is ideal for individual
researchers who need a calm and quite environment for their
studies. The centre will provide food and accommodation for
such researchers who wish to conduct his/her study while staying
at the institution.
The institution is in close proximity to the second city of
Sri Lanka; Kandy and nearest to the township of Gampola.
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