Rainforest Restoration Project in Sri Lanka

Save to Favorites

Looking for a place to feel at home in Sri Lanka while contributing to a meaningful NGO project? Make our BASECAMP your base in Sri Lanka-your home away from home. A place to return to when you're tired of travelling, to soak up the local vibe away from tourist crowds. If you love forest gazing or want your travels to give back to the environment, this is the place for you.

This particular volunteering project is an ecosystem restoration (reforestation) effort on a 50-acre degraded hill, with the potential to expand to 250 acres. We're literally growing a rainforest from scratch. What was once a burnt, barren slope is already transforming into a thriving, green landscape.

We need passionate volunteers to plant trees during the rainy season, remove invasive species, and water young plants during the dry months. Our plant nurseries also need regular care and maintenance. Beyond fieldwork, we welcome anyone with skills in tech, research, video creation, or promotional content to help spread our message and strengthen our mission. Become a guardian and ambassador of the rainforests we’ve permanently protected.

Volunteers stay in a simple rural house with two bedrooms, a guest room, dining room, small traditional kitchen, and two external bathrooms. For those who love rustic experiences, we offer a completely natural mud house, a two-storey bamboo house under construction, and an almost-finished tree house. There are also hammocks and open spaces-almost inside a protected forest.

We offer delicious, home-cooked local meals prepared by a kind village woman (the poorest in our village, whom we chose to support through this opportunity). She provides three meals a day, including Ceylon tea, for around €7 Euro per person. If you prefer, you’re welcome to cook your own food using our woodstove.