MAST Industries started working with Suwasetha in 2005 under the guidance of their Country Manager Sri Lanka Mr. Mark Green. With the sponsorship of the renovation and reconstruction of two Sarvodaya Suwasetha children’s homes:  the Galle Girls’ home in Bataganvila and the Baddegama Boys’ home.  MAST’s work with Suwasetha has since expanded in extent with the many programs of support they offer to the children at these homes.   These programs strive to develop the children socially, educationally and psychologically, and have increased vastly the comforts of their surroundings.

We warmly appreciate and recognize the care and concern, companionship and guidance given to them by Mr Mark Green, he has been an exemplary ambassador of Mast Industries living up to the high ideals of social responsibility commitments of Mast Cares. The children of both homes are indeed grateful to Mark and the other staff members of the Sri Lanka Country Office notably Ms Julie Chapman, Champika de Silva, Sharmini Athukorale, Kapila, Manjula, Tersha Wakefield who have been caring foster brothers and sisters, extending and expressing love and concern in a committed relationship. The educational support, especially in English, IT, Art and Mathematics, opportunities to pursue extra curricular activities and the much looked forward to regular outings arranged are a living examples of Mast Cares. The long term value adding programme of sponsorship support for individual children developed and implemented by Mark Green as a personal initiative will mean not only a regular stream of support for care and maintenance and educational and recreational support for the children on an on going basis but more importantly an opportunity to build a capital sum in savings that will assist the children in pursuing higher education options, a career oriented skills enhancements and as a support in building a new life in the community when they leave the home.

We wish to convey to Mr Mark Green our personal appreciation, warm and sincere thanks for the significant contribution and support he has extended in uplifting the social and economic standards of the two homes in Galle.

We wish him all the very best in his future endeavours and even though he has taken up appointment in Hong Kong, we know that he would still remain a friend of the Suwasetha homes in Bataganvila and Baddegama.