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.
In May this year extra cover have agreed to supply an extra 5 food packs to Pathawelivitiya school, this takes the number supplied every month to 102. The food packs are given to the children who the school advise us are under the greatest hardship. Often with no father and living with relatives these children […]
Much of the playground equipment at Bemboda School is sorely in need of repair. Extra Cover has put aside funds to transform the playground into an exciting, colourful and safe place.
Extra Cover have paid for Polwatta school to have a day trip visiting cultural areas that the children would never have seen before. Many children have never left their villages before, so this is a huge adventure for them.
In early July 2010, twelve sixth formers from Brighton College, together with three College teachers spent two weeks volunteering at six of the Extra Cover schools. The very day after the end of their summer term, the pupils (six boys, six girls) flew to Colombo and travelled down to Unawatuna, their base for the first […]
