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The Butterfly Peace Garden is nurtured in a three forth of an acres of land with green trees, chirping of birds, and ecologically constructed activity centres. This centre is functioning for the last Twenty five years. It has grown.
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Fourteen years of sustained children’s programme have encountered one and a half of million children, who have experienced trauma healing, reconciliation and ethnic harmony.
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From the cocoon the Butterfly Peace Garden flies out and goes to a new garden. A new site has been identified. Two and a half of acres of lands is owned by the garden. We are in the process of creating a new garden in our own property.
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Butterfly Peace Garden situated in the eastern part of Sri Lanka, Is a Sanctuary for the healing, ethnic harmony and peacemaking of children in post war era. It is an internationally recognized and effective child’s programmes in conflict zones. “Play is Child, Child is Play”. Through play activities the creativity and imagination of children are entered into for transformation. Visit the Butterfly Peace Garden. The ground that you are standing on is holy ground.
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Paul Hogan first came to Sri Lanka in 1994 as part of an exploratory mission sponsored by the McMaster University Health Reach Program to consider establishing programs to address the needs of war-affected children. During that time he met and discussed possibilities with health professionals, academics, and artists. In Batticaloa he visited orphanages, held a public forum, and conducted a short investigative training program. Meanwhile, Health Reach tested some of Paul's techniques in two nearby communities that had been seriously affected by intercommunal conflict and saw good results.
The Jesuit father, Paul Satkunanayagam, a highly qualified counselor, who in 1993 had established a mental health center in Batticaloa, invited Health Reach to consider using an abandoned two-acre garden as a site for rehabilitation activities.
After 26 years old civil war in Sri Lanka between the government armed forces and LTTE revolutionaries. The negative, wounded impact is still present in the environment and the community. Little by litter the wounded community is resiliating from this woundedness. In this atrocious war 70000 people and more than 800000 people were displaced. This displacement started in 1986 and is still continuing because the affected parties and communities do not feel safe and feel a sense of belonging in this country.
Like in other countries, which is in warefare, the people most affected are the children. The children are used as child soldiers, wounded, abused and used as objects. More specifically North and East, because of the eye-centre of this civil warefare, suffers in silence because of poverty, social stigma and psychological disorders.
The Butterfly Peace Garden
