Sewa Family

Sewa Finance is not a conventional microfinance lender as it is part of family of 3 organisations that are all striving to reduce poverty and improve the standard of life for the poor people of Sri Lanka. By linking it with the largest NGO in the country (Sewa Lanka Foundation) and SEDCO, an organization focused on creating market linkages, it is able to a wide package of services to local communities.

Sewa Finance

Sewalanka Community Financial Services Limited (Sewa Finance) was incorporated as a public limited liability company under the Companies Act No 17 of 1982 on 01st September 2005, Re-registered as a Limited Company under the Companies Act.No.7 of 2007 on 11th August 2009 in order to supplement the capital requirements of the community-based organizations (CBOs) that had come into being with the efforts and under the guidance of Sewalanka Foundation. Sewa Finance plays a key role in the Lanka Microfinance Practitioners Association and was the first microfinance institution in Sri Lanka to get ISO quality certification.

Sewalanka Foundation

Sewalanka Foundation is one of the largest development NGOs in Sri Lanka, established in 1992 and incorporated under the countryís Companies Act No 17 of 1982. Sewalanka works to enhance the capacity of rural communities to democratically identify and address their own development needs and to provide services that contribute to the economically viable, socially just and ecologically sustainable development of Sri Lanka. It specializes in helping the rural poor through social mobilization and strengthening of the capacities of CBOs to make the transition from relief to self sufficiency and sustainable development.

SEDCO

Sewalanka Enterprise Development Co. Ltd (SEDCO), a company incorporated especially to help in the onward development of the enterprises undertaken by the CBO member small-scale entrepreneurs, by creating market linkages for their products. SEDCO helps CBO members improve their market access and increase their share of the value chain through research and advisory services, investment, and the formation of forward and backward market linkages.