The WDC founded by Mrs. Stephen and Mrs. Kurian and was formally established in 1986 and registered as an NGO in 1989.

It’s aim is to improve the status of women in society through organizing, awareness raising livelihood and other programs of empowerment community based activities and programs

Central to programs of WDC is the aspect of prevention and intervention to violence. Initially activities concentrated on crisis intervention for female victims of violence

The WDC program development and implementation can be divided into Four broad program areas as follows. Many programs are interrelated whilst there are distinct program areas too. The interrelated programs share resources, information knowledge and skills. The different experiences of the individual programs are shared and disseminated. Further, many staff actively participate in more than one program at a time and often introduce new concepts and values

PROGRAM AREAS

    Spread over eight districts with 8 foras in 8 districts
• Vanni Women’s Forum (Vavuniya District)
• Rajarata Women’s Forum (Anuradhapura District)
• Hill Country Women’s Forum (Kandy District)
• Hanguranketha Women’s Forum (Nuwara Eliya District)
• Dakshina Lanka Women’s Forum (Galle District)
• Akkaraipattu Women’s Forum (Ampara District)
• Batticaloa Women’s Forum (Batticaloa District)
• Matale Women’s Forum (Matale District)