A newly revamped website for a new orientation.

Having started the pioneering work during the last 6 years in Sri Lanka, the Building A Future Foundation has accumulated experience and knowledge in building capacity and economic empowerment towards underprivileged youth. We have developed sustainable fishing boats concepts, designs, prototypes and ideas which we are eager to share and which can be replicated with implementing and financial partners in specific contexts.

Building A Future’s orientation for 2011-2014 is to ensure the sustainability of the projects in Sri Lanka and to implement its innovative concepts internationally to create a real effect of scale and a positive impact in other’s people lives by setting up strategic partnerships with national and international organizations and businesses well established in coastal regions in the Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia.

Our objective for the future is to develop on a larger, but realistic scale our endeavor to reintroduce sail power in the fisheries sector and to spread concept of sustainability both economically, ecologically and socially for the benefit of communities depending on the resources of the ocean. The aim is to raise the income of poor population while improving nutrition in an environmental friendly approach.

For information, the Building A Future Foundation works in collaboration with the Nedsom Foundation on a project aiming at establishing a sustainable fishing industry in Somalia (read more in the article dated 21.07.2011). An application will be submitted to the King Baudouin Foundation in Belgium for this specific project in order to be able to collect funds allowing (Belgian) donors to benefit tax deductions.

It is also planned to create a new organization under the form of an association or a foundation in France to allow French donors to make tax deductible donations.

We will keep you informed on our actions on this website and through twitter and Facebook!