Community Centers
Tag helped to develop community centers in Sri Lanka to provide post trauma services, spaces for spiritual expression and places for economic regeneration and disaster preparedness. Tag mobilized community art professors from Ben-Gurion University and art activists from Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, to work with artistic talents in Sri Lanka to design and reconstruct communal spaces.
Poverty Alleviation
Kurunegala, a village in southwest Sri Lanka, had few economic prospects or employment opportunities. Tag teamed up with local partner Sarvodaya Fusion to help villagers use digital methods to promote local industry. A small producer of coir (coconut fiber) brushes set up a Facebook page. Hayleys, a local export company, discovered the opportunity and placed a monthly order of one million brushes, creating employment for 200 people.
Agriculture Training Center
Tag established an agriculture training center and model farm in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, to increase income in the surrounding farming communities. Tag supplied Netafim drip irrigation system irrigation kits, and provided training in their use, which saves both water and time and increases yields. The Center also provided business development training, to help foster the transformation from subsistence to business farming. The project empowered young farmers to pioneer new agri projects.
Art Therapy
Tag introduced a range of innovative initiatives to use art to bolster emotional resilience in the way of violent conflict and natural disasters. We brought an expert on art therapy from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University to run workshops and training sessions. We also brought an expert of art and community activism Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design to educate and lead projects that use art to galvanize community action.
