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.
Niluka Kapuge has just started sending her oldest son to Pathawelivitiya school. As with all the parents there, Extra Cover offered her the chance of developing a new business of growing tea, but unfortunately Niluka and her family do not have their own home. Instead they move from house to house, depending on what is […]
The English cricket team, recently out in Sri Lanka, took time out to help and support Extra Cover. The squad interrupted their warm-up for the test match against Sri Lanka in Galle to spend an hour or two with some of the country’s poorest children. Coordinated by Matthew Hansford and Robert Easton, children from the […]
Until a few months ago Yatalamatha Junior School had a problem with pupils not having immediate access to fresh water, as a pipeline from the senior school a quarter of a mile up the road was proving unreliable. It was a privilege for Extra Cover to arrange for the necessary engineering work and see fresh […]
Matthew and Robert visited Malamura School for the first time in February 2012. With the strategic principal Mr Weerasinghe at the helm, it is definitely a school in the ascendancy - there are currently 40 pupils in grades 1-3, rolling up to grade 5 over the next couple of years – and the parents actively […]
With some 175 children on the school roll, Gonadeniya is by far the largest school with which Extra Cover is engaged. The principal Mr Arachi recognises the value of pupils learning both outside, as well as inside, the classroom, and we were recently delighted to help in the building of an open-air theatre in the […]
Every school day about 400 children receive a meal from Extra Cover. The total cost of this is a mere £40. At all 8 of the schools that Extra Cover support a good proportion of the children have far less nourishing food than they need, all the children come from very poor families many who […]
