Today, around 150 families benefit from our goat and cow bank. Thanks to the loan of one animal, the beneficiaries can get new incomes and improve their food quality.

It also brings solidarity among the community: the first born animal will be given to an other family instead of giving back some money to the organization.

Our micro-credit bank supports also home gardening or poultry farming and is mainly addressed to women.

The Citizen Watch program

Its objective is to strengthen and empower grass-rout civil societies, to build a Human right culture and monitoring and to promote reconciliation and co-existence among the 3 Sri Lankan communities.

• We support women, youth and children groups to set-up and perform civil actions and a wakefulness of the protection and promotion of Human Rights.
• We organize weekly classes and training session in the field, in schools etc.regarding Human Rights, Child Rights, Women Rights etc.
• We organize cultural programs, meeting, demonstrations etc.
• In cooperation with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka we work on Human Rights monitoring and fact finding of Human Rights violation to empower the victims
• We provide legal advise to victims

Advocacy and lobby

HDO is an active member of several local and international NGO networks such as:

• CSPA, Coordinating secretariat for Plantation Areas
• PCPD
• IMADR, International Movement Against all form of Discrimination and Racism
• IDSN, International Dalit Solidarity Network
• South Asian Forum for Human Rights
• International University of People for Peace

We also closely work with People's Watch UN and with the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission.
HDO actively participated in international forums such as:

• Asia Pacific NGO forum
• UN World Conference Against Racism – Durban, South Africa
• Global Conference Against Caste Based Discrimination – Delhi, India
• UN working group on minorities – Geneva, Switzerland
• World Social Forum

• Every year, HDO organizes May Day demonstrations. Plantation workers gather together to express themselves for higher wages, decent work conditions and to fight against child labor. Thanks to these demonstrations HDO and its volunteers create awareness among the whole population as far as plantation people situation is concerned.

International Workers Day 2007 in Plantation

• During election time, violence and corruption are almost omnipresent in the country. Candidates and their militants do not hesitate to buy people votes or to frighten them by violent actions. Plantation people are one of the most affected by this violence wave. To ensure a real democratic process, HDO is part of the election monitoring device every election time. This year also,HDO will be part of the presidential elections monitoring.

• In 2003, HDO organized a signature campaign for the recognition of Sri Lankan citizenship for Indian Origin Tamils. Its president, P.P. Sivapragasam had the opportunity to discuss about this situation in the United Nation. For the first time, minority citizenship issue in Sri Lanka was talked about on the international stage. Thanks to the pressure of the international community and people’s mobilization this unfair situation has been solved. Indian Origin Tamils have at last the same citizenship as the other Sri Lankan people.