Extra Cover Sri Lanka
The mission of Extra Cover is to help some of Sri Lanka’s poorest school children grow up with hope. It provides basic essentials – from food and clean water to toilets and textbooks – to eight extremely poor jungle schools in the south of the island. As funds allow, it also builds extra classrooms, installs playground equipment and runs tea-planting cooperatives.Extra Cover has no axe ( political,idealogical or religious ) to grind….we just want to help children learn and enjoy life . Will you please help? Here’s what your money can buy:£5 buys textbooks for an whole class, £10 pays for a day’s breakfast for an entire school, £50 feeds a child for a year, £250.00 covers the cost of building a new toilet, £500 pays for a well, and with £5000 Extra Cover can build a new school, offering a wonderful future to some of the world’s most deserving children.
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How it all started
Initially the main thrust of its programme was construction of new homes for victims of the disaster, and in the space of two years, the charity paid for the building of some 39 houses in the south of the country, as well as repairs to several schools near the water’s edge. 
In 2007, the charity changed focus and turned its attention exclusively to the field of education. A few miles inland, away from public view, we found schools whose children were in desperate need of life’s essentials – food, water, shelter, medicines, clothing, and basic educational materials. Some children were coming to school with no shoes on their feet and no food in their stomachs. Some of the schools had no clean water supply. Let alone electricity. Let alone toilets. Let alone books, or pens or pencils. 
