Stillness and strength:

Quiet power of Suwa Arana

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On a quiet street in Maharagama, behind the crowds and clinics, stands a building that does not announce itself. There is no rush, no siren, no sterile echo. Only stillness—and within it, strength.

This is Suwa Arana. And this month, it turns two.

Sri Lanka's first paediatric palliative care centre, Suwa Arana was born from a grief that could have stayed private. When Indira Jayasuriya passed away in 2016, her father, Karu Jayasuriya, chose to transform that pain into purpose.

From that, the Indira Cancer Trust was born. And then came Suwa Arana—a house built not in her memory, but in the spirit of how she lived: with quiet grace, fierce love, and deep compassion.

Suwa Arana is not a hospital. It is not a hospice. It is a home. A refuge for families travelling from across the island to seek treatment at Apeksha Hospital.

Here, over 600 children and their families have found more than shelter. They've found care of the kind that restores dignity when everything else feels stripped away.