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About Us

Sri Lankan Friendship Society (SLFS) is a charitable, incorporated community organisation in Waikato established in 1994. We are on a mission to promote, uphold and honor the cultural heritage of Sri Lanka while promoting the goodwill and social harmony within the communities of New Zealand. We organize and participate in various Cultural, Social, sports and related events to promote unity and well being of the Sri Lankan community in Waikato.
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Our Mission

To Develop and facilitate cultural, educational, sports and recreational programmes for children and adults to build strong and more connected communities and to make the process of settling into NZ as easy as possible for new immigrants.
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History

The origins of the SLFS goes all the way back to 1971 when three Sri Lankan families who had just migrated to Hamilton from Sri Lanka (Ceylon as it was known then) used to have casual meetings at each others’ houses. Eventually, with the arrival of more Sri Lankan families, the meetings grew and became the basis for a close-knit group of Hamilton-Sri Lankan families.
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Our Projects

As a team we helped community to keep their tradition and culture helping several projects.

Sri Lankan Traditional Dancing Program:

We have intuited this program in February 2019 thanks to a grant by the Creative Waikato. This year we are […]

Indoor Sports Project: Badminton

The Badminton Club of the Sri Lanka Friendship society was formed in February 2018, and it allows SLFS members to […]

Kids’ Development Projects: Public Speaking and Comperering

It was decided that all children of high school age would be made to participate in compering at SLFS events […]

Kids’ Development Projects: Chess Club

From the lessons of the holiday program, we have decided to initiate a few kid’s development programs to run throughout […]

Holiday Program for Kids

We have trialled a two-week holiday program for children during the spring school holiday last year. Our purpose of initiating […]

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