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 twenty four extremely remote village schools in the southern rainforest area. As funds allow, it also builds extra classrooms, installs playground equipment, runs tea and cinnamon-growing cooperatives, and oversees vocational schools.
Extra Cover is most at home, and perhaps closest to its original mission, when it helps smaller schools. To the under-educated eye, it appears that these schools, of about 50 or fewer pupils, can be overlooked as the shifting political scene delivers (or does not deliver) educational aid. And Kumburuhena is a case in point […]
Playing among the thirty young pupils at the Mahalapitiya Montessori this July was a little boy wearing regular clothing ... and a big smile. His name was Lakindu and he turned out to be the younger brother of one of the pupils. And he will, if all goes well, join the school next January. […]
In January 2014, Extra Cover started 2 ‘Special Education’ units for children with disabilities, the video below was kindly made by Rob Powell of BBC south today when he visited in October and shows how well they are now working. 24 children now have the chance to attend school, many for the first time. […]
This time last year, Extra Cover raised money to help Lakshman and his family. By February they had a new house and a new prosthetic leg thanks to so many people’s generosity. In October Matthew and Jill visited Lakshman in his new house and had made a short piece created with the help of Rob […]
Last year Matthew and Robert met Hashan and Heyshan, 2 brothers with Cerebral Palsy who had just started at Extra Cover’s new Disability schools. Both were in real need of a wheelchair to help both them and their parents have a productive day. We visited in November 2014, and what a difference! With the help […]
