MWRAF in collaboration with SHARE conducted livelihood training for a team of 25 enthusiastic women from the small village called Sinnamothuwaram. This village is located in the suburbs of the Eastern province and is in very close proximity to the sea. Around 200 families resided in this village and their main source of income was fishing. But sadly this village was struck tremendously by the Tsunami in 2004. The residents lost almost everything in the Tsunami and most of the families even resettled in a nearby village called Kollavil. The families suffered tremendously from poverty, lack of empowerment and will power to be able to step forward and self employ. The residents also had a poor literacy level and apart from fishing both males and females lacked the skill in any income generating ventures.

MWRAF reaches out to these women and trains them in a number of areas such as in tailoring, baking, hand embroidery, crafts and Batik production. These workshops took place in Colombo and MWRAF did a fairly adequate training to be able to build trainers in hope that they would be able to impart their skills to the other residents back in the village. The sole aim of this training program is to empower the women to be able to generate some form of income which would help them overcome their poverty and dependency.
The training program also promoted coexistence and working in harmony with diverse ethnic groups. The first batch that was trained consisted of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslim Participants and showed a lot of coexistence in them working towards a common goal. Such interactions seemed to bring a very positive out reach in the post war situation in the country, and seem to be taking steps to achieve the over all aims of MWRAF.