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.
When it comes to Charity, raising awareness is crucial in make sure people get the help that they need. On 8th August 2022, BBC TV South Today presenter David J Allard spoke to Extra Cover charity founder Matthew Hansford. They spoke about the current struggles in Sri Lanka as well as the future plans […]
Thank you for all your messages asking about how things are going in Sri Lanka and how the reported chaos is affecting Extra Cover. Sadly, the news is not good, not good at all. You can help I very much hope that we can raise an initial £25,000 for a new Extra Cover project. It […]
A rainy weekend in Darlington may not be at the top of anyone’s get-away lists, but it proved a genuine highlight of the year for Robert when he had the chance to introduce the work of Extra Cover to a group of lovers of speed. The Ferrari Owners Club of Great Britain hosted a “Competizione” […]
There are few things more distressing for us than seeing a sick child whose family is unable to turn to support from the government. And if we can help we will. Ten-year-old Bishan lives in a rented house with his mum and elder brother, while his dad works as a “trishaw” driver in Colombo, returning […]
We thought it time that we wrote a report on what is happening with regard to Extra Cover’s work in Sri Lanka. It has been a little remiss of us not to have been in touch before, but our minds seem to have been elsewhere since March. Below is a quite a detailed report, which […]
In February of this year Matthew visited “Suhada”, Extra Cover’s idyllic property in the interior, which was playing host to twenty young men and women with special needs from “ECSAT”, a vocational training centre in Galle. This was the first time that many of the urban dwellers had seen pepper growing in the wild, and […]
