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 has started making loans available for parents at Pathawelivitiya school. The parents are very poor and have very little or no income, so 7 families have taken up the offer to start a small business of growing tea. There is huge demand for tea in the area so prices are very strong and […]
Yatalamatha A few miles down the road from Gonadeniya School stands the rather unprepossessing Yatalamatha Junior School. Matthew and Fr Robert have passed it on many an occasion, but had never fully investigated it, and ascertained whether Extra Cover could help … until October 2011. On arrival, it was immediately clear that the school had […]
Over 3 days, 4 local unfit businessmen undertook walking the 101 miles of the South Downs way. This blister inducing feet normally takes 9 days, so why do it in 3? The reason was to raise funds and awareness for Extra Cover. The 4 fools were; Sean Maginnis (owner of The Lock Centre in Bognor […]
The Nawala Pre-school opened for its first day in February 2011. This project has been carefully overseen by Newton, the principal of the school and a government Technical Officer to ensure that only the best building standards have been met. Although most of the work has been carried out by skilled labourers, much of the […]
Eleven Brighton College sixth formers spent two life-changing weeks in July working at a number of Extra Cover Schools. The pupils, led by teachers Simon and Becky Hawkes and Jane Langhorne, brought brain as well as brawn to the visit, and instructed pupils and staff in a number of disciplines, including drama, English, and arts […]
A thirty minutes’ drive (in truth a gentle jungle safari) from Polwattha School, Nakanda was the first school to which Extra Cover had food delivered daily. Since then, shoes, stationery and games equipment have all been supplied when needed, and over the years Extra Cover has repaired a disused well, installed a water storage tank […]
