| Project
Sri Lanka Activities in 2005 |
- Post
Tsunami Reconstruction was the focus area for PSL
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| Housing
Project |
- Committed
to building houses
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Allocated Land by authorities
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Withdrew from the Housings
Project due to lack of support from the authorities
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| School
Reconstruction |
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Signed MOU with government
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Land allocated in later part of the year
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Project on going
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| ANULA DEVI BALIKA
VIDYALAYA |
| Anula Devi Balika
Vidyalaya is a girls’ school
run by the state and located just over 100 metres
off the coastal line of the city of Galle. The school has been
in existence for 70 years but after an extensive overhaul,
it was re-named ‘Anula Devi
Balika Vidyalaya’.
The school, before the tsunami, was offering education to
girls, from the age of 6 to 16/17 (Kindergarten to O’
Levels). The school had 1735 students with 51 teachers. It
was regarded as the fourth most desirable school in Galle,
the Southern Principality in the country, for Year 5 Scholarship
admissions and ranked in the top 30 for the same on a national
basis. It was developing in to one of the most progressive
national schools in the country for girls. |
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Having
pursued many projects in Post Tsunami Sri Lanka, Project
Sri Lanka’s core group decided to focus on Projects
which have sufficient and timely support from the respective
authorities.
Project
Sri Lanka (PSL) will direct all it’s efforts in 2006
to the relocation / reconstruction of Anula Devi Balika
Vidyalaya. The school was partially damaged by the December
2004 Tsunami and has since outlived the feasibility in the
existing location
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SRI LANKA NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT |
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| In Pictures – School in its
current location |
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The
school’s catchment area includes students from rural/semi
urban middle class families to the economical powerless. It offers
scholarships to deserving students from year six. There are no barriers
based on race, religion, caste or creed in the admission of students
to the school. The school is a social melting pot and plans were
afoot to develop the students’ usefulness for the development
of the country by educating them through the English Medium and
also introducing Information Technology in to the curriculum of
study. There were two English Medium streams in the school for year
6 and 7 before tsunami on 26th December.
As the
pictures depict, the school houses almost 2000 students in a premise
which is highly congested and constitutes a health and safety risk.
As shown in the pictures above, in some classes six students have
to share 4 desks due to lack of space.
A school
with great potential can only last a finite time under these conditions.
Hence the decision to relocate the school is a timely and worthy
decision. PSL is committed to fulfilling this requirement
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