Introduction

We hope that you will see from our projects that we are very committed to helping the people of Sri Lanka. We are unique in that we are personally involved in each of our projects.

Projects to Date

Tsunami Houses

Having travelled to Sri Lanka in August 2006, Sue was extremely upset to see so many Tsunami victims still being housed in tents, a year and a half after the Boxing Day Tsunami. On returning to the UK, she then wrote to all her friends and relatives explaining the situation. To her amazement, she raised £4,000 to build some new houses. With the help of Roshan and a local builder, we were able to build 3 houses for Tsunami victims. Roshan was very careful to verify all the records to make sure these were true tsunami victims. Both Sue and Roshan have since visited these 3 families. We also received a letter from the Divisional Secretariat thanking us for building the last house.

Click here to view letter from Divisional Secretariat

Below are the photos of houses

Volunteer Teaching

Sue has a qualification in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, so from September 2007, she spent 3 months teaching English to the A Level students at Tissa Central College in Kalutara.. Sue had an amazing time and will be returning to do more teaching as it was one of the most fulfilling things she has ever done.

Below are the photos during teaching.

Below are the letters from children of Tissa

- student_letter_1.pdf
- student_letter_2.pdf
- student_letter_3.pdf

Click here to view Article in the Sri Lanka Sunday Observer [ Page 4 ]

Facilities at Tissa Central College, Kalutara

Sue provided sufficient funds for the installation of a toilet for the teachers at this school. Before she arrived, there were no facilities that they could use. She also provided racking for the Staff Room as there were no storage facilities there.

Click here to view letter from the Principal - [principal_letter.pdf].

Feast Day

Once a year Roshan's family hold a feast day. Over the year, the family have saved money with which they buy staple goods and then distribute them to poor people in the neighbourhood. This has been a family tradition for many years now and last year, they were able to help over 100 people with rice, lentils, canned fish etc.

Our Projects for the future

Schools

We will be providing English books for the library at Tissa Central College because they have so few English books. What they do have, has to be shared between the 3,500 students at the school.

We have identified three schools in the Habarana area which have no English resources at all. We will be sending our gap year and career break volunteers there. For each volunteer that we send there, we will be providing a set amount of money for that school where they are placed. We are also going to help with other resources in the schools.

Click here to view Gap Year information.