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.
News of the extraordinary success of the Navungala and Panangala Special Education Needs Units has travelled fast, and Mr Ajit, the principal of Mapalagama School has been encouraging Extra Cover to resource a similar operation on his premises … and we have agreed to give it our best shot. The corner room of one of […]
Watahena Junior School is a “difficult” school – so labelled by the Galle Education District because of its inaccessibility. To get there this July, the pupils from Brighton College had to get out of their van and travel the final teeth-rattling twenty minutes by tuk-tuk. They arrived to find that five large teacher desks, paid […]
How do you build a house? For the uninitiated, like Robert, you get a blueprint and start form the ground up. Well not quite. While the foundations are certainly the first thing to be installed, the next thing on a builder's to-do list is actually the roof. While out in Sri Lanka this past July, […]
Forget the Ashes. The cricket match of the 2015 season was held at East Brighton Park in early August, when three teams competed for perhaps the ugliest trophy in sporting history. Two Brighton pubs (The Round Georges and the Hand in Hand) and a group of Guardian newspaper contributors fielded sides in a […]
On our visit to Navungala School in early July, we were able to see Extra Cover's first tuk-tuk in action, taking the Special Educational Needs Unit pupils back home after a full day of classes and fun. The bright green tuk-tuk is now a feature of the local landscape, scuttling from house to […]
The village of Panangala may be a long way from anywhere - it's a two hour slog from Galle, through winding and crumbling roads - but it is now a central hub for Extra Cover. A half hour journey from the town of Udugama and you reach what is now the Extra Cover Vocational Training […]
