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.
Matthew, Jill and Robert have had the privilege of meeting some of the most aspirational people in Sri Lanka - men, women and children dreaming big dreams - but none more so than the Sandaya family of Nawala village. The family live in a shack (immaculately kept, of course) with the floor space no bigger […]
Yes, there were elephant safaris and train rides, yes, we ate like royalty in ramshackle curry houses, and yes, we drank banana milkshakes at the Lucky Tuna beach bar, and danced the night away at the “Happy Banana” on a Friday night … but what made this year’s two trips to Sri Lanka truly meaningful, […]
It is nearly a year ago now that Extra Cover started a new adventure: the acquisition of a property that will not only become a "home'' for the charity and a hub for the volunteers, it will also be used as an amazing vocational training centre for young adults with disabilities. The property is called […]
Magic happened this March when a group of young men and women from The Met College in Brighton visited some of the Extra Cover schools. For the second year in a row, the wonderfully generous Fonthill Foundation sponsored the costs of 16 students – all of whom have had difficult childhoods – to spend twelve […]
Every July, 46 Lower Sixth pupils from Brighton College visit and teach in many of our schools. It is a moving experience for one and all as this video, compiled by Sidony Bryant, attests. The following is a summary of her thoughts about her two-week trip. “Words can only begin to describe our experience in […]
Extra Cover is counting the cost of the worst flooding in 14 years Last weekend (28th May 2017) the South West of Sri Lanka was devastated by floods. Over 200 people died and tens of thousands have been displaced having had their houses wrecked Extra Cover's 28 schools and other projects are right in the […]
