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.
The heartbreaking atrocities of Easter Sunday, in which hundreds of people, many of them children, were senselessly murdered, have rocked everyone. They have, in part, galvanised all of us at Extra Cover to continue supporting Sri Lanka’s most vulnerable and most marginalised with even deeper conviction of the importance and value of our charitable activity. […]
This is Dilshan, having fun with toy trucks at Mahalapitiya Pre School. On the face of it, he looks like any other two or three year-old. Except he’s four. His mum and doctors say his physical development has been stunted by his body’s inability to absorb fat, and state that he desperately needs two pots, […]
To our dismay, we learned that a house close to that of the Sandaya family in Nawala village, whom we have supported in sending their children to university, has no toilet facilities at all. The mother (pictured) and her three children are just using an uncovered hole in the weeds, a few yards away […]
During 2018, Extra Cover crossed the £1,000,000 threshold in donations, and this milestone has prompted us to remind all our wonderful benefactors what we’re up to on the teardrop island in the Indian Ocean. Our primary focus remains food, water and education. Food At the moment there are 29 active “Extra Cover Schools” and every […]
Over the past twelve months, our relationship with the small state-sponsored SEN unit in the village of Weihena has deepened significantly. Originally crammed into a tiny (and bizarrely, glass-windowed) room, the children now have a lean-to extension, with wooden flooring and space for tables and chairs, as well as a place to play when it […]
Following their hugely successful trip to Sri Lanka this March (see our story "The Magic of the Met").Several students of The Met went on a sponsored walk this June and raised a magnificent £100 for the work of Extra Cover. Robert spent the money the following month at a school they visited, played cricket at, […]
