Hearts social welfare development source is a nationally registered non-government organization working nearly two decades for the purpose of development and advocacy for women, low educated families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Hearts works through education health and nutrition, water and sanitation, economic development and child protection. Hearts categorizes the marginal community based on the economic and social conditions such as income, level of inclusiveness and respect in the society they live in. The main focus of hearts is towards women, widows and women headed families’ elders and disabled, famers, children in the plantation community.Hearts actively engaged in the provisions of basic documents such as national identity cards, birth certificates, land ownership documents for plantation people. Hearts have the vision to create a community where disparity in equality, Harassments against women and children and domestic and migrant workers specially.

HEARTS is a Community based nongovernmental organization based registered nationally and based in Central province of Sri Lanka. The root of the organization can be traced to the late 1995s when a group of active community leaders from vulnerable communities commenced voluntary service activities to address the needs of their own communities living in a village. Although the Volunteers wanted to extend their activities to other areas, but they lack of grants and funds prevented them in expanding their activities to other areas within and outside of central Province. HEARTS continues it’s services in the central province as Plantation Areas needs many volunteers and civil service organization to work towards a sustainable development of Tea Plantations. Tea plantations, also known as tea estates, came about in the 19th century. The British Empire brought people from Southern India to work on the tea plantations. Most of these workers were from Tamil Nadu. Even though the British Empire abolished slavery, these Tamil tea plantation workers were certainly subject to conditions of slavery. The workers did not receive compensation and endured harsh working conditions “with long hours and heavy quotas.” Furthermore, the “workers lived in crowded shacks, without sanitation, running water, medical facilities or schools for their children.” After British rule and achieving independence in 1948, Sri Lanka labelled the tea plantation workers as “temporary immigrants,” out rightly denying them citizenship despite years of employment in the country.