What we have portrayed below, therefore, is the philanthrophic/charitable activities conducted by this center as submitted in their annual report to the Ramakrishna Mission Headquarters.

As should be obvious, all philanthrophic/charitable activities of Ramakrishna Mission are supported through contributions from kind hearted folks and/or institutions.

Though the Mission started functioning in the island in 1924 with the management of a few schools, the centre at Colombo was formally established in 1930. With Swami Atmaghanananda as the swami-in-charge, it conducts the following:

• A free library with about 7000 books and a reading-room,
• A Sunday school for children with 865 on roll,
• Welfare work such as pecuniary help to the poor,
• Educational aid to students,
• Free monthly medical camps for children and destitutes, spending about Rs. 5.11 lakhs,
• Personality development camps for children from schools all over Colombo,
• The International Cultural Centre with guest rooms, library etc.,
• Lectures in the Swami Vivekananda Centenary Memorial Hall, one of the biggest auditoriums in Colombo,
• Daily worship, weekly classes and occasional festivals, and
• Celebration of the birthdays of prophets.

• Three orphanages with a total of 126 boys and 107 girls,
• Daily worship, weekly congregational prayers and a Sunday School for 340 children,
• Occasional classes at Mantivu Lepers' Asylum where it maintains a temple for the inmates, and
• Welfare work by way of distribution of school stationery, clothes and building materials amongst destitute children and refugees amounting to about Rs. 7.5 lakhs,
• A model housing project for poor under which about 27 houses constructed at a cost of US$60,000.