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.
On Matthew and Jill’s latest visit to Sri Lanka, they had the pleasure of meeting a little 9 year old girl, Wasana, and her family. Wasana was born with no legs, and has spent her life getting around on her hands, by swinging her body too and fro. Has this held her back? Not at […]
Pelessa School, a “difficult” school north of Ahangama, is something of an oddity, in that there are some twenty children in both Grades 1 and 2, and then no other children except three boys in Grade 5. Though small, the school had an air of true purpose about it when Robert and Newton visited this […]
The Sri Lankan education authorities classify certain schools as “difficult” – referring primarily to their accessibility – and “Upper Homodola” is amongst them. And with good reason. The only way to get there from the market town of Udugama is by tuk-tuk, lurching up the side of a large hill for some thirty minutes (on […]
Click Here To Hear THe Interview Matthew and Robert were invited to the Lords Test match, England versus Sri Lanka to talk about their continuing work with Extra Cover and had the pleasure of being interviewed about the charity by Jonathan Agnew during the tea interval. It was broadcast live on […]
Lakshman and his family are now proud owners of a new house. On Wednesday 12th of march, Matthew travelled out to have the honour of being there for the opening. The whole village seemed to be there, hundreds of schoolchildren and all the people who helped build their wonderful new abode. to show what high […]
Last October Robert underwent surgery for kidney cancer and, thanks in the main to the skill of the wonderful NHS staff in Brighton, the operation was a total success. To mark his return to full health, he tramped over the South Downs in early March from Brighton College to the town of Lewes some nine […]
