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.
Copies of the 2012 Extra Cover Calendar are still on sale, with all the post-printing profits goingdirectly to the schools in Sri Lanka. Each month features one large photograph - taken by Brighton College pupils who spent two weeks at the schools in July - and an insert of a picture painted by a Sri […]
Trustee’s visit 2011 Two parties of three arrived at Bandaranaike Airport over one weekend in October 2011. The first trio, taking advantage of Brighton College’s Michaelmas half term comprised Fr Robert, his older brother William and Matthew’s son Ben. They stayed in South Colombo for one night before travelling down by bus to Unawatuna. 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 […]
In February 2012, Matthew and Robert suggested that they might walk from Nawala to Bemboda schools to see such an event involving dozens of children could be integrated into the Brighton College trip in July. There was considerable sucking of teeth and shaking of heads in bemusement, but eventually some five Nawala staff (including the […]
Nothing formal has been agreed as of yet, but our visit to Sri Lanka this February included a visit to what could be a further “Extra Cover” school. The principal of the school, Mr Weerasinghe, joined us in celebrations at Gonadeniya School and invited us to come and see his small school, some thirty minutes […]
Such is the popularity of the Brighton College annual visit to Sri Lanka, that this year there will be not one, but two trips, both comprising eighteen Lower Sixth pupils and four staff. Basing themselves in Unawatuna for the first week and Mirissa for the second, the English pupils will help at the “Extra Cover” […]
