The UK Sri Lanka Trauma Group (UKSLTG) is a registered charity in the UK whose membership and executive include internationally recognised experts in the trauma field including psychologists, child psychiatrists and adult psychiatrists. UKSLTG is largely made up of Sri Lankan experts based in at the Institute of Psychiatry South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and other NHS Trusts as well as British experts from the IOP and other institutions such as the University of East London who have a long history of involvement in Sri Lanka. They have an established track record of working in Sri Lanka over the last nine years, with traumatised populations, initially in the context of that island’s civil conflict.

The Institute of Psychiatry is part of King’s College London and closely affiliated to the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. The Institute is a world-renowned centre for treatment, research and training in psychiatry and mental health. The organisation is involved in pioneering new and improved ways of understanding and treating mental illness and brain disease. Its wide-ranging field of work includes depression, eating disorders, brain imaging, genetics and psychosis.

The Institute was one of only two organisations in the field of psychiatry, which received a six star rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council of England. The exercise, which is conducted every five years, enables the funding councils to distribute public funds for research selectively on the basis of quality.

King's College London is one of the two oldest and largest colleges of the University of London with over 13,800 undergraduate students and nearly 5,700 postgraduates in nine schools of study. It is a member of the Russell Group: a coalition of the UK's major research-based universities.

The College has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5* and 5 for research quality, demonstrating excellence at an international level, and it has recently received an excellent result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency. King's is in the top group of UK universities for research earnings, with income from grants and contracts of £100 million, and has an annual turnover of more than £348 million. In 2004 the College was once again awarded an AA- financial credit rating from Standard & Poor's.

CAFOD is the international aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, sharing in the Church’s task of transforming the world to reflect the Kingdom of God, through solidarity with the poor and action for justice.

CAFOD’s mission is to promote human development and social justice in witness to Christian faith and Gospel values. To fulfil this mission CAFOD raises funds from within the Catholic community and beyond so that it can:
• work alongside people in need to reduce poverty and bring about sustainable    change through development and humanitarian programmes.
• Increase understanding of the causes of poverty and injustice and encourage the    Catholic community to embrace values, attitudes and lifestyles that are rooted in    the gospel.
• Challenge governments and international bodies to adopt policies that promote    social justice and end poverty. This is done both directly and by rallying the    Catholic community.

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