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.
Only 2 weeks to go till we set off for Sweden for our charity walk. We have already walked our socks off training, including 50 miles over the Easter weekend that made us realize what a challenge it will be!! If you have kindly read my last e-mail sent out a few weeks ago (copied […]
Niki, Brian and family have moved out to Galle for 6 months, below is a blog concerning their work with Extra Cover. We had another great visit this week to Extra Cover’s Vocational Training Centre in Panangale, about 1 hours drive north into the jungle from Galle. This wonderful place has an amazing feel and […]
Readers may remember that Extra Cover has been helping Lakhindu, a four year-old boy attending Mahalapitiya Montessori. Lakhindu who has had heart surgery and to stay alive he has to take a pill a day. The total cost of his medicine is about £20 a month. The government has given his mother about £1.40 to […]
Extra Cover has bought a car. Newton now is the proud driver of a purple and white Suzuki “Hustler” – a vehicle tailor-made to our needs. Robust enough to carry dozens of packs of dry rations, or tea, or fertilizer, comfy enough for any and all visitors, and with a high enough ground clearance to […]
Brighton College’s annual visit to Sri Lanka gets bigger and better. This past July a total of 46 pupils and six staff taught in some twenty different schools. The pattern of a regular day is as follows: 7.30am - the vans leave the hotel, in time for BC pupils to attend, and sometimes sing the […]
Nine year-old Tharindhu has been attending the Special Education Needs unit at Naungala since its inception, and it has been the making of him. His mum, Pradeep, says that he has grown massively in confidence, to the extent that earlier this year he spoke for the first time. That’s the good news. The not so […]
