Shared workspaces for women with childcare attached, in Colombo and the district towns

The single largest unused asset in the country is sitting at home, and the reasons are practical, not attitude.

Walk round one district town and find a landlord with an empty upper floor, then ask 10 women who work from home or freelance whether they would pay for a desk each month if a supervised children's room were next door. Ask the landlord for a trial rate on the first month. The proof is 10 desk bookings and a space held for you.

Who pays first

A freelancer or remote worker with young children who cannot work at home, and pays for a desk because the children are cared for in the next room.

What leaves today

Graduates who could earn stay home for want of a place to work near their children; a shared space converts that trained time into income.

Confirm the building may be used for desks and childcare together, the fire exits, a trained carer for the children's room, and insurance for both.

Sri Lanka. Chapter One

"The single largest unused asset in Sri Lanka is an educated woman sitting at home, and there are millions of her."

The desk and the children's room together turn a woman at home into a woman at work.

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?